Our dog is 11 months old now. He’s a cocker/terrier cross. He’s really settled at home, potters about, sleeps, plays a bit but generally pretty chilled. Happy to be left for up to 3 hours.
I’m finding the summer holidays quite a juggle as he’s difficult to walk at the minute. He pulls on the lead and his recall is poor so I’m not able to bring him along eg. we’re going for a walk with friends tomorrow but I can’t walk him on the lead and chat with my friends and wrangle the kids. Equally I can’t let him off the lead as at some point he’ll disappear only to return in his own sweet time.
We’ve cracked walking to heal around residential areas and he’s great off lead in a secure field if we fully engage with him.
I’ve got into a routine of DH walking him before work, on lead for about 30 mins just around our neighbourhood. I then take him to the field for a run around mid day and then DH takes him again after work.
At the weekends we take him into the countryside and do his recall/lead training.
I had visions of him joining us on all our family walks as we do go out and about a lot but as I explained I just can’t manage it and I feel like if I take him and let him just run off or pull the whole time then we’ll never reach a point where he can join us. I didn’t think it would be this hard though and I’m feeling deflated that I can’t simply bring him along with me and the kids and our friends.
I could just do with someone to tell me to hang in there and it’ll all fall into place but I feel like I’m not getting anywhere at the minute!
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Socre383 · 05/08/2020 16:06
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