Before you choose a safe, outdoor practice area visit it on your own.Liverwurst is my go-to when we’re doing training Honey to do something difficult. Save the most appealing reward for your dog for outside practice.Don’t start practicing recall outside if your dog ignores you inside. Start outdoor training once your dog listens reliably to you indoors.You need to make sure the training is safe first. How much scarier is it to lose your dog where no one knows you?
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It’s especially important for people who travel full time, by boat or RV. If you fell on a walk and lost hold of your dog’s leash, you want to know he’d come back to you or stop when you told him to. Training your dog to listen to you outdoors is an important safety tool. I’ve heard too many horrible stories about dogs panicking as the plastic cartridge of their flexible leash follows them as they go running down the street. I strongly suggest you only buy the kind that has a retractable band instead of the thin line that can act like a garotte.Īnd only use it if you can hold on tight. I’d also argue that practicing your dog’s recall and stay is one of the few proper uses for a Flexi Retractable Leash (Amazon). You dog can get far enough away from you that he has to deal with training distractions. But you can get them as long as 50 feet and made from super-light materials. If you don’t want to risk losing your dog off-leash during outdoor training, rely on a Long Recall Training Lead (Amazon). As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. There’s no place for dogs or people to hide from being my friend.Īnd if your dog is too high a flight-risk to feel comfortable with having him off-leash in even a fully enclosed area, here’s one more option. The gaps in old metal fences might be big enough for a small dog to get through, so check carefully. Many older cemeteries have fences on all sides. Some little league fields are enclosed in chain link fence on all sides. If it’s yours, you’ll eventually need to find a strange place with new distractions to train on. Just keep an eye out for tennis players who could open the gate and lose you a dog. Here are a few potential off-leash practice places I’ve used with Honey: Fully enclosed areas Tennis courtsįences are too high for any dog to scale and they go close enough to the ground to keep tennis balls from escaping. So you need to make sure you have a safe place to practice. (I shared my humiliating example in When Is Your Dog Safe Off Leash.)Īnd some dogs won’t even be 50% reliable off-leash, no matter how hard you work (that was definitely true for my earlier dogs, Christie and Shadow). No dog is 100% reliable in training without lots of practice.
So you need to practice.īut how do you find safe ways to practice cues like “Stay” or “Come” without risking your dog’s safety? Especially if you don’t have a roomy, fenced yard? Safe Training Outdoors Your dog probably is too.īut the training you do indoors (or on the boat) is not enough to guarantee your dog will listen to you outdoors (or off the boat). When I need her to stay while I’m pouring hot liquids in our galley or checking the engine oil, Honey is golden. On our boat, Honey won’t move from her place in the cockpit if I tell her to stay. It’s great that you train your dog in your living room or kitchen. Training Where You Need Your Dog To Listen That limits the directions I can roam in. The snow piles up up two feet on both sides of the sidewalk.
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