Leash training is one of the most important things you and your dog need to have.
Not only is it dangerous to have a dog that does not behave while on the leash, it is also horribly embarrassing.
All that tension on the dog's neck while it is pulling, can cause the dog to become easily excitable and unpredictable.
This can lead to the dog jumping on people, running after other dogs or things that excite it, or even pulling so hard that it escapes from you and gets into trouble.
Sounds horrible, but fear not! It is an easy fix, if you know how to fix it.
A dog pulls on it's leash, because somewhere in it's life, it was allowed to pull on the leash.
This upsets the whole balance between dog and owner.
It reverses the role in the dog's mind to, "I control the walks, my owner controls everything else.
" It's much like the saying, "I give him and inch and he takes a mile.
" The dog was allowed to get away with the behavior, so now it thinks that is the way of the world, or the way of the walk if you will.
But the dog is wrong.
The walk is not it's, the walk is YOURS and the dog is accompanying you.
It is a shared experience, and that is exactly what the dog needs to "relearn.
" The "gurus" will tell you that you need to purchase a horribly expensive and cruel choke collar, or special stop-pulling harness, but the answer is much more simple and humane.