Thank you, we are having to hold the long line at the moment because eddy does not have any awareness of anything around him, He's a rescue dog who the trainer thinks has never been walked before so when he gets outside he loses control and goes mad, we're hoping that after a couple of weeks we can try leaving the long line on the ground.
He sounds very much like my boy, we have had him nearly a year, exactly the same problem only as I USED to know his last owner, I knew he had never ever been walked
. We have worked very hard with the pulling which is starting to come together, we still have to long line unless we know the area is secure as he still gets the control issues and losses himself...again this is coming slowly but going to be a lot longer than the not pulling! We also still have the line attached to us, I have a 50ft line.... Just keep going and don't lose hope as it will come if you keep at it
Oh nearly forgot, we used to use harness due to whiplash worries, but now he has a respect for the collar we use collar more often than not if using the long flexi in the woods, but if on training session we do it in a clear field ATM I put both on so can switch easily to what suits best and use the long line instead of flexi as distractions are different each time. Hope that makes sense.
