walking on leash

[mydogroxy]

as you can probably gather from my other posts, i have a 5 month old pit bull and tons of questions! to get to the point, roxy picks and chooses who she will walk on leash for. i have absolutely no problem walking her on leash. she walks beautifully, generally doesn't pull much, and is very excited to be out and about. when it comes to the other people in my household however, it's nothing but trouble. if anyone besides myself tries to take her out, she either refuses to walk, walking only a few feet before she plants her butt, or tries to drag them back to the house. i know she will walk with me because she feels most comfortable, becuase if someone esle is walking her, but i'm with them, as long as she can see me, she'll walk. she's not afraid or shy to anyone in my household, she'll jump right up on the couch and cuddle with them and wags her tail like crazy when the come home. it's just the walking . . .any suggestions on what we could do?

by the way, to get her to walk with me i didn't have to do anything specific, just put the leash on her and call her a bit.

[mouseatthebusstop]

A life time ago when I lived with my parents we had a springer he was mums dog. When I went with mum and Kerry he would let me hold the lead if mum stoped to talk to a friend I walked on slow Kerry would lie down to wait for mum. If it was one of my friends mum had the lead he would go with her. Looks like she is your dog only

[mydogroxy]

haha, well she is my dog (i bought her from the breeder, pay her vet bils, buy her all the goodies), but everyone loves her!

[bk_blue]

It's funny how dogs can sense people aren't in control of them. BK is good with most of us on the lead and excellent with my uncle, but if someone ie. a friend wants to take control of the lead he will test him/her to see how competent they are, and if they don't enforce any authority he will play up and be the dog from hell, but they still love him because he's so cute. :roll:

I've got no really good advice to offer. Maybe you could use treats to get her to walk with other people on the lead around the house or something? Or even just looping the lead to someone else in your house/yard, and getting her to follow...? :-?

[Guest Anonymous]

Pit bulls are natural pullers when they walk. She will probably end up dragging you along as well. I only have 1 dog in my entire kennel that doesnt pull, and that is only when we are heading away from the house.
The little pup Im working with now pulls every once in a while but tries to stay beside me (or under me) as much as possible. Some may disagree with me but I dont think a bulldog should be trained not to pull, and some you cant train not to do so!

[Bubblezzz]

I am having more or less the same problem with my puppy! Cosmic (English Cocker Spaniel) walks nicely (err...sort of) with me, especially when he knows that I am carrying treats. He still goes wild at times though - I can't figure out the triggers because we take him to to the same places since he is still young. When he does that, I practice the 'stop - start' routine, tell him HEEL (don't think he gets it) and wait for him to stop tugging before we start walking. On bad days, it seems like hours to walk the length of the block!

But with me and my bf, at least he trys. My brother on the other hand, gets pulled about by a little 7kg (abt 15 pounds?) puppy!! It's hard for us to pull him back when he is totally uninclined to cooperate - he strains like crazy and it looks like he'll end up choking himself!

I don't want to use a body leash because I feel that we'd be more likely to cut him slack and I want him to learn to walk nicely.

Floppy (3.5 yr old American Cocker Spaniel) we never managed to train with a collar leash. We don't know her history because we adopted her from the pound, but she was straining SO MUCH, even after more than an hour out, walks were always so stressful! Can they actually do themselves harm by straining on leash? I still remember when we finally gave in and bought her a body leash, it was such a relief! With a body leash, she seemed to walk ALOT better almost immediately. This must connected to her past somehow right?