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Originally Posted by Canella  ok so Canella is an inside dog that goes out all the time if im outside she is outside and i never put her on a leash because she usually stays right by me but lately she has been being soooo bad!...everytime she hears another dog bark she goes off barking like crazy!...and everytime a runner goes by or someone is walking their dog she goes crazy barking and runs after them!!! First of all i dont want her running after them because anytime someone can drive down the street and hit her (which almost happened last week i ran in front of the car any yelled at the guy at the top of my lungs stop!...but that is a totally different story) {worst night of my life} and second of all the only thing people wanna do is play with her and talk about how cute she is and its kinda hard to do that when she goes crazy barking!!!...please help any input is great....
Thank You,
Stressed out mommy in Tx |
I have always used a leash because I used to live on a busy street, but more recently we moved to a more rural subdivision. My boy, Finnigan would always stay by my side on his retractible leash so I thought it was time he could be off in the back yard. WRONG... the first couple times he was off-leash he'd stay on the deck by our sides even when tempted by squirrels etc... but one day he just suddenly took off around the house and went down our road. I had to get on my bike to get after him because he had ran so fast/far down the road (luckily no one else has built in our subdivision yet). He scared me so bad, we have large hawks/coyotes etc... I am never letting him off his leash again. Unfortunately he's recently learned he can try running out the door when we come home to get outside, but that's a whole other training problem
We have the retractible leash for walks and use a cat tie out with a ground steak or just around a tree/pole for him to potty outside the mornings while we're getting ready for work or when we're outside. Just today I bought an exercise pen to put up around the deck stairs because sometimes I want to have the patio doors open so he can run freely in and out on nice days (we can't put a fence up in our yard due to our subdivisions covenant and I think it would be dangerous to use invisible fences with my little guy).
I know its sometimes inconvienent to use a leash when your out doing yard work but there are options out there, you can try what we've done with the cat tie out and probably even use a dog run with the proper size lead, but always use a halter!!! you don't want your little baby to hurt themselves.
Hope some of what we've done helps! I can send you pictures of our set-up if you'd like.