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The time finally comes when you have to do all of this off lead, find a quiet place where there are no distractions, perhaps your back garden. A place I really like is an Industrial Park in the late evening, everyone has gone home, plenty of space in the car parks and it isn’t ‘at home’ so that the dog learns to do it ‘outside’. Now you really have to work at it, your only control is your voice. Although a Crufts Obedience champion told me that she used a fishing line as a lead, the dog couldn’t see it, the idea being that the dog always believed that it was on a lead even when it wasn’t. If you try this I suggest you wear a thick pair of gloves since the fishing line could badly cut your hands if the dog pulls. If the session goes badly, practise some more with the dog on the lead. You need to give the dog lots of encouragement to stay with you, try to resist the temptation to bend over as you do your about turns as I am doing in the photo.

Heel Free - Dogs & Dog Rescue

This is from a teaching session where the dog is learning to turn, hence the lead, at the point where you are teaching the dog ‘Heel free’ it already knows how to turn. When the dog can walk at heel in a quiet place then transfer to somewhere where there are a FEW distractions etc. No matter how good your dog becomes at walking ‘Heel free’ never walk him off lead down the high street or anywhere where there is traffic, it only needs a car to ‘back fire’ and your dog jumps into the road…


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