Hi, wonder if anyone had any ideas on this?
18m old neutered male west is. Complete character, thinks he’s a huge dog. Loves walks and adventures has walked happily off lead since very young.
He is fine during the walk, but has always been hit and miss with me about letting me put his lead back on at the end of a walk or to get back to car park. I deal with this by anticipating the end of the walk and if he stopped to sniff/ scent something getting his lead in then. If all else fails I tempt him with a treat which he gets once lead is on.
He’s fine for my OH and will just still for him to put lead on.
New dog walker (2 days a week) since January and she has same problem as me ... but he won’t even come to her for a treat!
It’s as if he doesn’t want the walks to end. But tbh a 50-60 minute off lead, forest/beach walk for a westie should be enough? We don’t want to over exercise him.
I can only think that a) it’s not long enough or b) esp. with dog walker he’s having too much fun with the other dogs.
I’ve been wfh a few days and noticed that he’s not been back from dog walker long when he wanted to go back out for toilet, and one day he peed indoors. I wondered if he’s too busy having fun to remember to do toilet business (this was a problem when he was boarded and they had to give him ‘alone time’) and then getting stressed his walk has ended.
His recall and general behaviour is excellent except for the end of walks! So specific!
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Getting dog back on lead at end of walk
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Blondiecub0109 · 09/02/2019 20:55
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