oh my gosh - I tripped and dropped Punkin's leash a week ago. I haven't taken her for a walk since. It scared me sooo much. She pulls to go home sometimes and I turned around to get her to come, somehow I tripped over my own feet and fell. Since she was wanting to go home she took off as fast as she could run. No amount of commands was working - I even tried hollering out treat and cheerio. She crossed the busy street in front of our house. I closed my eyes and hoped for the best. I stopped calling for her at this point as I didn't want her to cross the street again. When I finally caught up to her she was sitting very nicely at the bottom of the driveway waiting for me. I made it to the back porch sat on the steps and cried. I'm going to take her for a walk today and have figured a way to hook one leash to my belt loop and around a second leash so if it should ever happen again she can't get far away from me.
Not sure I can take another scare like that again - we were so lucky that Punkin was safe after crossing the street.
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