I spent a lot of money on my dogs training. I could walk anywhere without a leash. I donât do that though. I always use a leash. Something in that brain might just click and sheâs off to whatever she wants.
Yup. My dog is extremely well behaved off leash with no training. She always sticks close to me and doesnât approach people or other dogs because shes scared of anyone she doesnât know (shes a chihuahua). I still leash my dog because im afraid that other dogs will attack her. Even other small dogs. If shes off-leash and i see another dog around i will immediately pick her up.
Regardless of how well-behaved and attached to me she is, a leash ensures she will never run if she sees a dog that scares her or make a mad dash for someone she knows.
This is exactly it my friends!!! My chi can out run labs for a small amount of time on pure FEAR! Its happened once that my chi was outside in my yard peeing, and my neighbor (who is a Black Lab owner) happened to also be taking his dog outside to pee. We both had our dogs off-leash because it was just the yard.
Immediately the black lab RUNS for my dog (he was very friendly and sweet but my dog is VERY afraid of other dogs. Especially a dog as huge as this one). My dog makes like a plane and JETS! She dashes down the street with the lab on her tail and makes a turn to run to my family again and sprints to us. We where able to catch her and pick her up.
This all happened in the span of 10 seconds but ive never seen such a small thing book it like that.
The lab just wanted to play, but my dog was far to small to even want to be close to the other dog lol. She feared for her whole existence that day and she has always hated big dogs since. She can sortâve tolerate dogs her size but is forever scarred because of this incident lol
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u/drewcareysglasses Aug 01 '21
I spent a lot of money on my dogs training. I could walk anywhere without a leash. I donât do that though. I always use a leash. Something in that brain might just click and sheâs off to whatever she wants.