[PyrNet-L] Down stay and leash training

["Merrilie" <Grammy@biddeford.com>]

> Last week, my  instructor felt that Sam would never *get it* where certain
> behaviors were concerned, or that he would always be very slow at doing
> them.  This is in regards to the down-stay (more the *stay* part) and in
> regards to the Zen Eye contact exercise.  Sam amazed her by getting the
eye
> contact and the hand with the treats vs the hand with the clicker right
> almost every time.
>     My main problem with him right now, though, is that he feels he can
pull
> on the leash no matter what.  I stop, he sort of stops... I can tell him
to
> sit and most of the time he will, unless there is a ton of distraction in
> which case, I stick the treat under his nose and command him, and
generally
> end up pushing on his rear to make him do it.  Then we *go* and he pulls
> like crazy.  We stop and start--- he just pulls me.   He was doing really
> well for a while, until I could no longer walk him due to a broken ankle
and
> that has been about 6 weeks of no leash training.  How do I get him to
walk
> beside me or WITH me without choking him by resisting his impulses?
>     Otherwise puppy classes are going pretty well... at least he isn't the
> barker of the class or class clown-------- biggest, yes! And of course has
> the only adoring eyes in the group! LOL
>
> Merrilie
>
> Merrilie
>