A simple gesture that your pet will understand immediately and which will save you from retaining it permanently.
Each walk, it’s the same hassle. The dog starts like a rocket, the leash stretches, and the master’s arm follows, not really by choice. Result: instead of a pleasant moment, the exit turns to the showdown. However, according to a British canine educator followed by hundreds of thousands of owners, it would be enough to change a single habit to transform everything.
Adam Spivey, co -founder of Southend Dog Training And Tiktok star experienced it with thousands of dogs. This canine behavior specialist does not believe in gadgets or punitive methods. What interests him is the link between animals and man, and above all the way in which they communicate. In a video that has become viral, he shares a precious advice. “People often get their dog out when it is overexcited”he explains. He leaps everywhere, jumps on the door, halestock, tremble of excitement. And we take him outside like that. Except that it is precisely in this state that a dog is the least receptive to learning. Too stimulated, it acts by impulse, explores everything, accelerates … and pulls. Hence the importance, according to the specialist, to start the walk at the right time, when the animal is calm, relaxed, capable of listening.
Once outside, the masters react almost all of the same way: they shoot the leash as soon as the dog accelerates. It is logical, but totally ineffective. “When you shoot, the dog pulls even more forward. It’s mechanical”, he said. This gesture creates constant tension, which annoys the animal as much as its owner, and which only aggravates the situation. It is there that Adam Spievey offers a subtle change of posture. “Instead of pulling back or stopping, shoot only on the leash”, he says in his video. But beware: it’s not about shooting. He immediately specifies: “Pull slightly on the leash, but without tightening, then relax and your dog will slow down.”
This movement does not suffocate, does not annoy. It simply attracts the attention of the dog and encourages it to slow down. It is this little gesture that changes everything. Contrary to what you think, a dog does not understand the continuous tension. It includes variations, micro-change, clear signals. And this method puts exactly on this.
