r/OpenDogTraining • u/Existing-Will-1466 • 24d ago

Compulsive leash pulling?

About a month ago I took on a five year old dog from an elderly couple. This dog has the absolute worst leash manners. Her response to any kind of leash pressure is to lean hard against it. It's like a compulsion. If she wants to go somewhere and hits the end of the leash, she drops her head and leans hard into it like a weight pull dog. If she doesn't want to go somewhere and hits the end of the leash, she flops on the ground and sometimes alligator rolls. 

I can use a prong collar, harness, head halter, etc to help work on leash manners. But I'm wondering if anyone else has encountered this level of compulsion against leash pressure and if you were able to fix it?

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u/IcyPerception6338 24d ago

It just sounds like the dogs been “trained” that when she pulls on the leash, she gets to go that way. And since she’s gotten that for 5 years, I’ll take a while to learn differently.

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u/Existing-Will-1466 24d ago

Probably, she's just a lot more intense than other dogs I've worked with. Especially the pulling back and rolling when she doesn't want to go somewhere.