Barnaby has had his say on the obedience on the lead issue too.
Yesterday evening after work the walk back to car was a well behaved non-pulling exhibition of the perfect teenager that he is.....that lulled me into a false sense of security.
So into the back of the car he hopped, and I clipped his harness onto the tether that anchor's in a seatbelt socket. Upon arrival home, as normal I clipped on his lead, put its loop over my wrist, unclipped the tether, and gave him his command to jump down from the car. Which he did, then promptly ran off, leaving me with the loop of lead around my wrist dangling to a soggy severed end. The little B had occupied himself during the journey, completely biting the lead in two!
Today we're on betty's old lead. This is a thick green synthetic rope affair that seems scaled to something the size of a Rottweiler. Bearing in mind that this lead was used for at least ten years on the old girl, lets see how long he takes to destroy it!