I sure loved my chocolate lab but boy did she shed. When I swept the kitchen floor it literally created piles of fur. When I vacuumed the carpet it would fill the bagless container to the top. I even changed my house flooring to hardwoods but it was still a lot of hair. So I […]
Recent research defines the human-dog relationship as an “Entangled Bond,” where the dog and the own are joined as a single physiological unit (a dyad). So, the next time you are walking your dog for some physical exercise, think of it as a time for you to allow stress and calm to flow back and forth from you to go, through the leash. So, dyadic balance would occur most comfortably when you feel in control of you animal and your animal senses this secure connection. For this reason, I am recommending some of my friends try the new 3 buckle harness. Why? It does not need to slip over the dog’s head and it provides a low pull anchor point in the middle of the dog’s front chest.
After training our chocolate lab Bella to stop pulling so hard with the gentle leader, we then transitioned her to a Y-frame harness. Note: the name comes from the Y on the dog’s chest, some may call it a H harness if you look at their back. Too confusing!
When my husband and I brought home Bella, our exuberant chocolate lab, we were thrilled but also quickly overwhelmed. She pulled on her standard leash, tugging us with a youthful eagerness that, frankly, left us both exhausted after every walk. It seemed the harder we pulled, the harder she pulled in return. ([See our other
My beloved Chocolate Lab, Bella, used to pull me around the hiking trails, yank me down the street, bolt after cars, and, in general, make walking a real chore. This is while I was supposedly in control of her with the leash. I questioned my authoritativeness and began researching all types of collars which might
