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Introductions / Re: Hello All
« Last post by PeteQ60 on March 19, 2024, 08:01:27 AM »Lots of trainers (and other people too) claim they hate retractable leads, but used properly I find them most useful .
I think the "used properly" bit is key too. First rule don't grab the cord with your other hand, if you want to keep all your fingers! I don't just let her run wherever I maintain contact when using the lead and am learning judicious use of the lock/unlock button, certainly at the football matches where she's really distracted by the ball and I have to avoid pitch invasions. She never wants to just sit and watch the matches we always head over to the perimeters and bushes undergrowth etc to "hunt" here again with the retractable lead it's useful in forcing me to use body language and hand signals to avoid tangling and winding it around trees with the stop whistle and clear hand direction a lot of time I can get her to untangle herself. Doing the perimeter hunt at the match last Sunday something the gun dog trainer told me clicked in place, as we were going round at one point she really wanted to pull in one direction and I was wondering why then it hit me, wind direction, she was really wanting to head into the wind where all the smells were coming from!