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Originally Posted by skinny  hi all, does anyone have this problem ?? we have a 2and a half year nutered girl,we have had her since she was 8 weeks old.our problem is; for the frist few months she would go for walks and be let off the lead, chase a ball bring it back etc etc then one day she decided to run off, we spent an hour trying to get her back she got very close to the main road a couple of times, it took a complete stranger to catch her !!! anyhow it happened again after that so now years on she never goes of lead, i just dont trust her not to run off. we tried all training methods but once she sees something/ dog/ cats/ etc thats it she s off !! its spoiling our fun with her, id love to let her off but i dont want to loose her or get her run over any other suggestions or is it a yorkie thing ??? |
Hey, my older sister has a miniature schnauzer who does the very same thing. she is also fixed even though i dont think that has anything to do with it. I personally dont know why she does that or if there is a way you can fix it. Perhaps you can try calling her to you and giving her something like chicken everytime she comes back to you, so that way she knows that she gets really good treats when she is near you and thus may not want to run off. but i suggest you try this in a park or somewhere closed off and open so that nothing bad happens, and so that she wont run off into the street or something. She has to learn that you are the boss and that she gets good things when she is with you. My big sisters never lets her dog off lead because she does the same thing. we took her to the park one time and i figured if we let her off she would be better behaved but low and behold in less then a minuet she was already off half way across the park.