Coupler leads and extendable leads

[Shoutymomma]

Following on from another thread, can I make a plea here.

Firstly, coupler-leads are designed to walk multiple dogs ON THE LEAD. On no account should dogs be allowed to run together off lead, coupled together. Can you imagine the trauma if 2 dogs ran into a toddler with a chain between them? I post this following an incident where my own dog became entangled between a pair of couple-chained dogs earlier this year. Their owner was luck to escape with his balls. My dog was scared shitless.

I also worry about dogs on a long extendable lead, for similar reasons. These leads can become a spaghetti like mess. I wouldn't want to disentangled one from around another dog, less still a child. I have seen severe bruising on an adult's leg because of such an incident.

Please take care.

I use a horse lunge line instead of a extendable lead, It's a 15m flat rope. I also had an issue of an extendable lead breaking it actually snapped, and I was using a large sized one on a med sized dog, didn't have it that long ether. The thing I like about the lunge line is no rope burns

I don't use a harness. I warn my dog by saying, Slow or Stop, when she is getting to the end of the lead so she knows to slow down. That way she doesn't jar herself.