What Do You Use To Walk Your Dog And Why?

[Guest Clover]

Mostly offlead walking here as well. But if we do go for onlead walks it is either flat collars or martingales & nice strong leads.

[Adnil444]

Flat collars and strong cotton leads. Martingales for obedience classes. Also use the sporn harness to stop pulling and they have been great. I also don't like the retractable leads but as lovemesideways has stated, they can be useful as in the case with the standard poodles and it works well for her.

[Mystiqview]

Flat collar.

Nothing beats proper training to walk politely on a lead.

[MavericksMission]

Hector is on a gentle leader (head halter) at the moment & Maverick is on a front attaching harness.

Hope to have them walking perfectly on flat collars only soon

Edited July 22, 2010 by MavericksMission

[~SL~]

Two on flat collars

One on martingale

One on a prong.

[Rascalmyshadow]

Our four dogs are all walked using different devices.

Bella is walked on a flat collar because she is always well behaved.

Dallas is walked on a flat collar if by herself or a head collar if she's with another dog because she pulls a lot.

Shilo is walked on a martingale being an afghan I worry she will slip an ordinary collar.

Rascal is walked on a standard harness because he chokes himself on a collar.

All dogs are walked on standard leashes, I think the retractables should be taken off the market they are dangerous and I thought laws had changed where leashes were not to be any longer than 1metre (or similar length).

Edited July 22, 2010 by NicoleL

[DaisyDog]

I use the black dog Infin8 halter, because on anything else she has the ability to pull, slip out of, ignore or pull me over. She loves her halter and knows that it means walks.

We use a retractable leash when swimming in places that have other dogs around (never with other dogs or people close by, more when doing laps along the beach in the water), but as soon as she's out of the water we're back to her usual flat leash. It stops her flat leash clips rusting or getting full of sand and crap.

[rubiton]

CHoke chain and harness - they work with each otgher so dog cant get head down and pull and cant 'choke' herself because the chain cannot get too tight.

[KitKat]

My guys get a check chain each with a double ended lead - they get popped on an end of the lead each and then walked with one on either side of me

I'd never use a retractable lead...it would be fine for my good lad, but my other lad would likely test the spooling capabilities of it!

[Teebs]

Kaos, check chain and leather lead

Atlas: Martingale and Leather lead - he hates the check chain, i would use a flat collar on him, but lost the last good one i have and havent found another one i feel safe using (he doesnt pull often, but if he does i need to make sure the collar will hold)

[Danois]

Check chain and a leather lead.

I used a check chain mainly because its the easiest one to put on and take off The other thing I like about it is I can easily slip it up into show lead position (he knows this means I want something different from him) if needs be.

Am about to start using a snap around collar for training.

[huski]

Am about to start using a snap around collar for training.

Hey Dan, what's a snap around collar?

[FionaC]

older boy is a flat collar with lead (occasionally we may need to get the prong collar back out) .... younger one is also flat collar with lead - not needed anything else with him - he's no where near the puller that Morty is .....

tried harnesses - makes Morty pull harder ... prong collar and a loose leash walking program worked for us....

Leads are either leather or blackdog material ones ... collars are leather or blackdog or Huga's collars ....

[Danois]

Am about to start using a snap around collar for training.

Hey Dan, what's a snap around collar?

Go into the dane thread - a page back I think and have a look at the video sas posted.

[huski]

Thanks Dan! I've never seen one like that before, interesting!

[noisymina]

I use a check chain on Kaisie, but she is seldon on lead at all.

When she came here, she had learned how to back out of ANYTHING. Flat collar & harness, so not much choice really.

She aslo pulled like a trojan. So we used a mixture of check chain and flat collar and now, joy of joys, she will walk loose lead MOST of the time.

I've always had check chains for the Dobes - since I'm about 50ks and they are 30+ and I need to have some advantage IF they decide to go feral for some reason. Kaise is the onlt one that ever pulled and she had learned that before we got her.

I've only ever seen one retractable lead - on a SWF. It did not seem a good idea to me at the time and I've never looked more closely at them. Hardly Dobe material, IMHO I mean, Kaisie did a take-off once and I learned then that a shorter leather lead was a good idea. I still have the one a nice DOLer made for us.

[dancinbcs]

Martingale collars that are basically flat collars that cannot slip off.

I frequently use retractable leads on well trained dogs when walking in areas that are not 'off lead" areas. One dog doesn't need a lead at all and the other one is fine unless he sees a swallow, when he becomes deaf to the rest of the world. If he is on the retractable lead he watches the swallows but doesn't chase them, but he can't resist if I take the lead off. Retractable leads give the dogs freedom to move around up to 5 metres while technically remaining on lead, but I never use them near traffic or other dogs. 2 metre soft webbing leads are for use when I need the dogs closer.

[Mrs Rusty Bucket]

I walk EH with a flat collar and sometimes a front-attach harnesss (what is a front "leading" harness). I use the sensible softouch concepts one. http://www.softouchconcepts.com/ but I'm pretty sure the easy walk would work.

I tried a gentle leader - it worked but we both hated it.

I've ditched the slip collar - where do you put the rego tag anyway.

And I thought about getting a retractable lead, but my dog is the speed demon lead chomper cutter so only a horse rope lead will do. And they do seem dangerous if people don't shut them off when they're not paying attention. Really dangerous with a big dog, even if they have the webbing ribbon sort.

[Henrietta]

I use one of those Blackdog 'training' collars. Non-slip martingale design, just in case. I haven't ever had my girl slipping a flat collar, but I would rather have that little extra security.

[corvus]

Ruff Wear harnesses. I feel strongly about this for some reason. Probably because I've had a few scary experiences with dogs and collars. Anyway, I prefer not to have the neck as my only point of contact with my dogs. The harnesses are great. They are almost impossible to get out of and they are balanced with a handle on the top so you can grab your dog easily. Once I started using one I couldn't understand how I'd ever got by without that handle.