How To Stop Your Dog PULLING On The Leash - The Veterinarian Way!

My name is Joshua Sadie. I am a veterinarian. I have run the same small-animal practice in the same brick building in rural Kentucky for twenty-five years, my father bred working collies and put a rope in my hand before I was ten years old, and yesterday afternoon I walked a client's ninety-pound Rottweiler across my parking lot on one finger. No shock collar. No spray bottle. No two-thousand-dollar board-and-train. And the worst puller on your street can go from freight train to a loose leash at your side in about thirty minutes, for the price of a ten-dollar length of rope. In this video, I am going to show you exactly what I do, in the order I do it, for less than the cost of a single group class. You will learn the doorway rule that sets the tone for the whole walk, the ten-dollar slip lead worn high behind the ears where a whisper of pressure carries a whole sentence, the checkerboard drill that makes you the most interesting thing in the field, the praise that does the work a treat pouch never could, the long line, and the two-word switch between work and play. No food bribery. No gadgets. No harsh corrections. Just leadership, timing, and a dog who finally understands you. I am also going to tell you the part that might make you uneasy — which is that the pet industry has known this for longer than I have been alive, and still sells you a forty-dollar harness that was invented, from the very beginning, to help an animal pull comfortably. The pulling is the product. As long as your dog drags you down the street, you remain a customer. The reason is simple, and I will explain it. A dog who hauls against a flat collar year after year is loading his throat, his windpipe, the thyroid gland that sits right where the collar rides. This is not a small thing. And the old story you have been told, that you must dominate him and become the alpha of the pack, is not even true. A dog is not looking for a boss. He is looking for a parent. You can do better than a gadget and a myth. The old kennel men always did. Leave the harness on its hook this weekend. Pick up a plain rope slip lead. Start at the doorway, walk the checkerboard, and pay him with your voice instead of your pocket. Then tell me in the comments what breed you have and how bad the pulling is, on a scale of one to freight train. I read every one. And if your father or your grandfather had his own way of teaching a dog to walk beside him — a word, a whistle, some trick with the rope — share it. Those little family methods are exactly the kind of knowledge that dies when nobody writes it down. Next video: the old kennel man's recall — how those men taught a dog to come back the first time, every time, across a forty-acre field, with nothing but a whistle and two empty pockets. Subscribe so you do not miss it. Keep the lead loose. Keep your voice kind. And remember that dogs have spent fifteen thousand years learning to read us — the least we owe them is to be worth reading. #DogTraining #LeashTraining #LooseLeashWalking #DogVet #PositiveDogTraining #NoPullHarness #PuppyTraining #DogBehavior #DogWalkingTips #KentuckyVet #SlipLead #DogTrainingTips #RescueDogs #OldWaysAreBest