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I have been taking Rowan for more daily walks now that the weather is getting nicer. And I must tell you ~ she is exhausting me.
We were out this morning using a 5 ft lead with just a little slack... and a choke collar (from obedience class). It was a fairly thin chain.. anyway, it broke this am during a correction.
So tonight I used something like a check choke collar.. with not much affect. We began walking down a hill and she spotted 4 kids walking about 500 ft in front of us... she went ape... not listening.... pulling... and not taking any correction...... so I ended up changing out route.... she wasn't bad.. but still needed lots of correction as was not 'healing'..... then another dog came along.. off leash.. with no owner... and I chased it away... and had to literally PULL Rowan down the street. A few times I cut her off into a snow bank... I was at my wits end and actually came back tonight EXHAUSTED.
PLEASE HELP. I love getting out and walking. but my girl is driving me CRAZY!!
We were out this morning using a 5 ft lead with just a little slack... and a choke collar (from obedience class). It was a fairly thin chain.. anyway, it broke this am during a correction.
So tonight I used something like a check choke collar.. with not much affect. We began walking down a hill and she spotted 4 kids walking about 500 ft in front of us... she went ape... not listening.... pulling... and not taking any correction...... so I ended up changing out route.... she wasn't bad.. but still needed lots of correction as was not 'healing'..... then another dog came along.. off leash.. with no owner... and I chased it away... and had to literally PULL Rowan down the street. A few times I cut her off into a snow bank... I was at my wits end and actually came back tonight EXHAUSTED.
PLEASE HELP. I love getting out and walking. but my girl is driving me CRAZY!!