A question for those with more than one dog

[Pam]

When you walk your dogs do you take them together or take them one at a time? I always take Bella and Ripley together and I use two leashes. It was a little difficult in the beginning because they would change sides frequently and the leashes would get tangled. Fortunately they have gotten into a routine, (with a little prodding from me ) and now Ripley walks on my left, the side of the sidewalk with the mailboxes, (guess why? ) and Bella walks on my right side. I had bought one of those dual leash thingies but have gone back to the two leashes now. Now that the weather is better I really hope to get back to walking them every day.

[critter crazy]

Well With my two brutes, I used to take them for seperate walks, but now they go together. I use a Dual Leash, and i think it is great. Makes things so much easier.

[husky 1]

I usually take suka for her walk first as she can only go for short walks , other 3 go out together .

[dogzr#1]

We usually take all three of them together. However, I take Prince because Molly and Astra are too strong for me. My brother takes both of them.

[Rachel]

Like you have experienced, Pam, it takes getting into the routine here before the two can be walked comfortably together. Unfortunately we have not done much walking and if we want to start up it will have to be one at a time for a few times. Strangely my *good dog* is my worst walker and my goofy girl can settle into it rather quickly. No connecting thingys here either. Tried that determined the two of them were stronger than I could *correct*.

Pam, your *Walk the Poodle* smiley is a hoot.

[Canis-Lupess]

When I had two, I used to take them together. When I was younger and I used to stay at my dads, I'd take 5 out together.
Seperate walks are too time consuming when each dog needs a decent walk. I'd spend the whole day just walking them, lol.

[pitc9]

I walk mine together.
When I adopted Buddy he had already been leash trained and is a perfect Angel on a leash. Stays RIGHT by my left side and doesn't walk in front of me or even move without checking with me first. He'll look up at me and I'll tell him "Go Ahead" and he'll sniff and pee on everything.
Sierra on the other hand, Ugh... she's a handful! She pulls, she stops and stiffs everything, etc. But with Bud being so good, it's almost like I'm only walking one dog! Sometimes I even tuck Bud's leash in my pocket and don't even hold on to him he's so good. Plus this way I have an extra hand to try to control Sierra.

[ramanth]

I walk Kia and Chipper at the same time. We use a dual leash. It took Kia some time to get used to it since she was used to having 6 feet of leash and now she has about 4 feet.

[k9krazee]

Well...I walk them in groups. Shadow usually always goes alone beause she can't go as far. Sometimes I'll walk Micki, Mini and Jack together, or Shadow and Kyra, or Micki and Jack, or Mini and Kyra...I used to get into a routine and walk the boys in the morning and the girls at night. Sometimes I walk Jack, Mini, Micki and Kyra together and if I'm feeling good that day, and its either later at night or early in the morning, I'll walk all five. They have a method, Shadow heels on my left side the furthest away from me, Jack next to her and Micki closest to my leg. The girls aren't that obedient and Kyra's uaually out and front and Mini slightly behind me on the right side. But my mom likes to go for walks too so we usually go together so we can take them all. You don't want to be around my house when you only take a few dogs out for a walk. Even Shadow howls, it's pathetic.

[Flatcoatluver]

Well I don't take the dogs for walks normally, but if I do they walk together. Just recently, I started walking them seperatly to get ready for our rally-o trial coming up.

[Aspen and Misty]

Nova is a HORRIBLE walker (and car rider). I don't take her anywhere if I don't have to...however, I have been walking her recently and she is getting slowly better. I just get so frustrated because I hate being pulled and she will not stop it. I have to walk them seperate because of Nova though. Konnor has been taught how to heel and just walks by my side the whole time, he is such a good boy.

Ashley

[cali]

uuuh with 7 dogs I most certainly do NOT walk them all together lol but I do walk them in groups. I walk my own 4 together, usualy with leck and Rusty on a coupler, and Misty on the Haltie, and Happy off leash. if I am taking care of my moms as well, then I either walk my 3 girls together, then Rusty and Blair toegther, followed by Ripley and perky together. or I walk my 4 together followed by my moms 3 together.

[DrKym]

I walk the three together, the Dobies get tired of Goof getting corrected and they herd her into the middle so that they can step on her if she starts pulling. I think they picked that up from the fact that more than once they got an accidental correction while I was trying to get the Diva to pay attention(attention span of a gnat ya know )

It usually isn't a problem, unless the ice cream truck is around..............

[Pawsitive Thinking]

I walk my two together. They both have retractable leads which I hold in my right hand leaving the my left hand free for important jobs like poop scooping and hauling them back when they spot a c-a-t before I do

[My Peanuts]

LOL, ALL TOGETHER AND IT'S MADNESS!

I walk all 4 together, but I always take another person. I have one splitter for Harley and Morty who do well together and I give that leash to the other person. I take Sylvia and Jimmy on separate leashes. They are both escape artists and I know how to handle them. Jimmy doesn't understand the leash I think because he never had one when he was on the streets. He zigzags the whole way. Poor Syl is not as fast as the boys and when she was on the splitter she just got dragged, so she needs her own leash.

We have to take all four because if I took them one or two at a time the ones left home would cry and scream the WHOLE time. I've tried it, they get too upset.

Last night my mom and I took them for a walk, but for about a block and a half I took all four, it really wasn't bad, but the non-splitter couple got tangled with the splitter couple.