Aging has helped but my two are a handful on walks. The walk starts out with excitement but they finally calm down. When they do I go to "nice walk, nice walk". We generally follow the same route with directions such as, "left, right" and at crossings "wait" and "go" after checking that it is safe to cross. They are use to the "let's go" after he stops to smell the 3,000th bush and "leave it" after the pile of poop. And of course, the TREAT when we get home.
Be consistent. Don't give up.
__________________ Joan, Bubba and Sissy-BEWARE OF PUPPY MILLS
breathe in, breathe out, move on -jb  |