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Old May 5th, 2012, 04:25 PM
violagirl violagirl is offline
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I would like to do it with NO leashes and have, but one dog can be hand shy and have been in situation before where there was a dumptruck coming and I could get other two to come but she wouldn't get close enough to me to catch her collar. And we specifically worked on this in class but she just is too cagey sometimes. And in this case she knew if I caught her she couldn't chase the dumptruck so she avoided me. And as she ran around the corner attempting to bite the dumptrucks tires..I was preparing myself to pick up a flat dog.

In 2 years that was only one incident but after that i decided the only way i could let them "offleash" would be to leave a short 4 foot leash on their harness.

The occasional hangup on the raspberry bush is usually only inconvenient.

While dogs have worked on emergency come and i would like them to come 100%, I can't guarantee a terrier's response 100% of the time.
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