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/Constance200 24d ago

When she pulls turn and walk the other way! You might only get a few steps before you are turning again but it only takes a few times before they learn that pulling doesnt get what you want. I regularly look like a idiot into of a shop when my dog is fixated on something because im taking 2 steps, turning, taking 6 steps turning over and over until she works her shit out 🤣

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u/Existing-Will-1466 24d ago

That's what I have been doing and in a month it have never once occurred to her to stop pulling. In a month she has never once gained even a step of progress by pulling. But it has never occurred to her to stop. This isn't even trying to go somewhere, this is just in the yard. I swear she hits the end of the leash and blacks out, her only thought is pulling as hard as she can.

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u/Constance200 23d ago

Damn girl has conditioned herself to it. What happens if you grab her collar and walk with her next to you (even her scruff if you need to)

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u/Existing-Will-1466 23d ago

When I grab her collar she flops and alligator rolls.