Leash Length/type

[Red Fox]

What types (as in cotton, leather etc.) and length leads people prefer for obedience training.

Do you prefer light, heavy, long, short, thick leads, thin leads etc?

Just curious

[Luke W]

4 foot, thin and light.

[Tilly]

It really depends on the size of the dog. We have big dogs so I use these leads. Super strong and brilliant quality.

We have similar leads in leather but I find the leather can be a little slippery in wet weather and need a fair bit of care - where as these other leads can be chucked in the washing machine and really last.

Edited June 22, 2009 by Tilly

[Paulp]

I agree with Luke, 1.2m and as light (makes the transition to off lead easier) as you can get away with

[Mystiqview]

I plait leather and make my own. They are reasonable thickness. Not quite as thin as favoured in showing.

I have medium sized dogs and my leads are about 95cm.. (5cm more than the minimum length allowed to stop any quibbering on too short in length). I am not all that tall (5'3) so I find the length still a little long.

[ness]

I prefer no lead at all as I never have enough hands for everything . I have a 1.2m 18mm thin Kramar brand one which I think is good if you have to have a leash.

[MonElite]

I like a 6ft leather leash for every day use.

I have a short thin ones for trailing and showing.

[angelsun]

Because the rules said so, I got used to a six foot leash. Mine are leather and the weight depended on the breed of dog I was trialling. For my smaller dogs, I used 1/2" wide leather. For the larger dogs I went up to 5/8".

I show on either braided leather or nylon for my own breeds and use my 5/8" leather for the new Shepherd baby.

[Gspsplease]

In group stays, if I notice someone else has a similiar lead to mine, I always loosely knot mine when I hand it over, so it is easy to identify. Once I ended up with a crappy lead with a faulty clip because the wrong one was handed back to me, in the days when nearly everyone used black webbing leads

[Tambaqui]

I have a black leather lead that I've brought from Southern Obedience Dog Club and it's great as it's very light and meets all my expectation to train my dog! Oh did I mention black! As my GSP is black and white so it's a must! (It would look so odd to use a brown one on a black and white dog lol!)