Good idea, poor execution

[cmayer31]

Bring 'em to a dog park (fully fenced in ) and let em loose. They'll get planty of excersise chasing/running from other dogs.

Another thing is (if they are come-trustworthy ) go to farm fields or forest and let them run till their hearts content. I'm lucky, I can do this everyday.

She loves the dog park, but we've had some not so good experiances there. She's very submissive to other dogs and has been beat up a bit while playing. She's love to run free, but she loves it so much that she won't come back. She listens while on lead, in the house, out back... but once loose outside a fenced yard she is full sprint.

[GreyhoundGirl]

Oh... Well I'll think of something. I have lots of experience with excersizing energetic/ CRAZY dogs.

[Pembroke_Corgi]

Wow, good job to Frankie for learning not to pull!

I've tried a lot of different things with Adele, it's one thing that just won't "stick." She pulls no matter what. I'll tell you what- you can borrow her for a few weeks and either you will get to try out your rollerskating idea with her or you can train her not to pull!

[cali]

pulling is such great exersize lol Misty and Ripley are trained to pull me on my bike, Happy wont pull so she just runs beside, though I really wish I could get her to pull because Ripley is half Mistys size and doesnt last near as long as her, and Misty does not pull well without the weight spread between 2 dogs until later in the biking season. I am hoping Electra will pull when she is old enugh, so far she is sort of a stop and go puller, I dont want to teach her that pulling is always bad, but I gotta be able to walk her in the winter too lol

[Kfamr]

I bet she'd love one of the biker dog hook ups!

[wolf_Q]

Oh I'll lend you Nebo, he'll pull you for sure. He knows HOW to heel, but so far he'll only do that when there's not anything interesting around (people and dogs) otherwise he puts on his "husky selective hearing."

Kay has a good idea, I have a bikerdog (www.bikerdog.com) and it works great. Nebo would very likely run off as well and he's never managed to escape it. I do have a couple of added measures...and no safety release...I figure we'd be better off crashing than him taking off, so I just don't go very fast. I don't get much exercise with it that way, but it wears him out much faster than a walk.

[cmayer31]

I can't belive that I missed that I was offered a chance to play with Adele and Nebo? How could I say no to that Actually, I know why it would be a bad idea, because I'd never want to give either one back, lol.

The biggest thing that helped with with Frankie was a Gentle Leader® easy walk harness . Frankie will not tolerate a head harness at all, she goes straight insane. The easy pull harness has become her regular walk harness and she doesn't mind one bit, but she stopped pulling after a few times using it. I might have gotten lucky, who knows.