I have no road sense at all – when we get near a road, I only stop if Mum tells me to. I have to stay on the lead most of the time until we get to the park, and when I first came here I used to pull on the lead quite a lot. That was the main reason for going to obedience classes. They said that Mum should be firm and pull me back whenever I pull on the lead. And there is a good reason for this, cos my Nan isn’t strong enough to take me for a walk unless I walk to heel. The technique was to pull me back and even turn round completely, then we only start walking again if I walk beside the humans – not in front of them. I am still not perfect, (especially if I want to go to the toilet) but our walks on the lead are mostly OK.
Thanks to my friend Silken, who asked me to write about this subject.