How To Enjoy Walking Your Dog!
In many ways a dog can be as human as we are. Imagine cooped in a room all day long looking at the four walls or watching TV all day long. A dog too longs to be out in the open enjoying the larger world, flexing its muscles and stretching its paws and legs. However it is important to teach the dog the disciplines of the city streets, the park or the open grounds where other people as well as other dogs are sharing the space. It is necessary that your dog respects the disciplinary rules settled before and learned, to avoid getting into problems with other animals or people that you meet. So let's see how our four legged friend will have to act in such situations
Usually, in crowded places it is better to keep your dog on a leash, to have it under control. Your dog will have to learn how to walk in a leash, near your foot, without pulling.
The dog should not be allowed to jump on people or animals met on the walk or to attack any of those, as long as both you and your dog do not face any aggressive situation.
The hunting instincts of a dog make them run after bicycles, motorcycles, cars or people that are moving or running. The dog must absolutely be kept on leash or trained not to chase any moving object or people.
When we let the dog free, to relax and rest, it is crucial that when he is called he return immediately as fast as possible.
At a picnic, the dog is not allowed to pass through other people's carpets or to eat their food.
Wherever our dog might be, he is not to be allowed to eat food given by someone else or food found thrown around.
We can generally observe that smaller dogs are more spoiled than big dogs and they are more aggressive, anti-social and afraid of other people or dogs. The owners are to blame as they are amused at such behavior and encourage the dogs acting this way. This way the dogs get to barking and sometimes even biting their owner. The dog must have the initial training learned and practiced, so that there are no problems when walking him.
All through the walk, the dog is not to chew on his leash or to pull it with his teeth, because it might happen that he is tied somewhere alone and he will chew on it until he becomes free and gets lost.
The dog should not be allowed to jump up and put out his front paws on us or others even if he is just playing.
While walking the dog pay attention to drunken people on the streets. Many times the smell, the walk and the yelling of drunken people annoy the dog. The dog is to loose his sense of reality and his instincts and therefore they won't pay attention to any of our advices. Some drunken people are even aggressive to dogs. Stay away from drunks as much as possible.
Once your pet dog learns these rules you and your dog can have really enjoyable and fun walks.
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