Learn the simple process to walk off leash with distractions (2023)

Introduction

Follow the process from door waits to seeing dogs to dropping the leash and finally off leash on the street.

Video

You want you really don't want the dog to know if he's on leash or off leash, so you're going to go like this you're going to take it off and then you're going to hold the leash right here.

So the dog still sees the stimulus of the leash you're, not just going to be like this leash is gone and never coming back, I'm going to keep showing you my loose leash, walking method.

So many of you are saying it's changing your life.

I want you all to get it and really understand it and really know what to do in this video we're going to add to it, though, I'm going to show you how to transition to off-leash control on a normal walk.

All right.

We have moose here to help us moose got here just a few days ago, he's by no means perfect on the leash.

So how are we going to get a not perfect on the leash dog to be off leash or at least be dropping the leash on a street where there's cars, where there's dogs, here's here's, what we're going to do so? Why do you think this method, my method, release, be turning and come back into the house when they hit the end of the leash on their own they're, the ones hitting the end of the leash? Why do you think this helps off-leash control? It's because the leash isn't being used.

If you are constantly have a tight leash, the dog making it tight or you making it tight? How are you gonna ever get the leash off? The dog is just feeling this tightness.

Then, when it's off they go it's off I'm out of here you have to make them question whether the leash is on or off, and that's the deal we're going to do today.

I do have some treats treats, are good, treats, are not the answer almost never, but they're good, okay, ready! We got moose we're gonna go on a little walk, so this is your living room.

Then I am gonna edit, because I just don't there's about a hundred yards that we're not gonna film.

I try not to edit.

So you guys can see the whole process.

Okay, but we're gonna stop it then we're gonna get to the street, start it up again.

Okay, all right, ready, moose, get to your front door.

You can do a sit or sit stay or you cannot do a sit.

Stay doesn't really matter to me.

The key is when the dog flies out that door or goes out that door and is leaving you and not checking in with you, you're gonna give a little correction down to the side and you're gonna come back.

Okay, you can say stay or you can just fling the storm open.

Okay, not bad, not bad at all.

Why am I flipping around if it wasn't bad because good is the enemy of of the best so plus maybe we're going to go on a big walk? This guy might see a dog.

You think I need to make a point right there of saying you can never leave me.

Yes, it wasn't bad.

Hence my correction.

Wasn't bad come on sit here.

Come right over here! Carly stay! Let's see! If he's better this time! Okay, now he's with me, I can reinforce.

I don't want to beg with treats.

I want the dog to do the correct behavior.

Then I treat them.

Is it better to tell your kids if you get an a will, go to disneyland, or is it better when they get an a to take them to disneyland the latter? Okay, the latter is a hundred times better, so he did good.

He got reinforced as opposed to don't go out that door I'll give you the treats right ready here.

We go.

Okay, okay, perfect dog, he's a perfect dog at this point.

Okay, now don't be so quick, don't be so quick to just go about your walk.

Okay! This is your front area.

This is the front of your apartment, right, it's a busy street over here, but get out in front and then walk around a little bit.

You walk where you want to walk how we this is going to transition to off-leash control too, because the dog is keying off of your body.

Can I reinforce that? Can you reinforce that moose? Yes, he just he followed me.

He was not perfect.

This is not a perfect heel.

We are not training a perfect heel, you guys don't want a perfect heel.

Well, you might you don't want to put the work in for a perfect heel.

We want the dog to follow us generally speaking, good boy we want now, let's see if that little correction made a difference.

Yes, it did now.

You guys might be like or some people might think.

Well, why not say his name or give him a cue to turn around because then he's always looking for a cue to look at me, he's always waiting for a cue to look at me.

I just want, especially for off-leash control.

I just want the dog to key off of me to always know where I am because once you get to that street and instead of a two in difficulty, it's a 10 because they see a dog you're gonna need that hesitation from them of going where's.

That guy and not saying a cue saying their name, saying, stop saying: leave it you're going to need that where's joel in an undistracted environment so that you're going to get it in a distracted environment.

So here we go we're going to continue on our walk.

This is like you taking a left or a right on your street.

Now it's different now we're in a different area.

It opens up up here, so I'm going to do.

Tester stops you're going to do tester stops.

Is he with me yeah he's with me? Is he perfect? No! That's! Okay, okay, okay, we're coming up on two dogs right here! These are actually my clients, my old clients.

Okay, let's see what let's see what happens with moose he's, leaving me and little correction.

He says, oh, but I want to look at the dogs joel.

I say it doesn't matter, that's not what we do.

Okay, good boy, moose dogs are over here.

Two dogs and a car he's being good.

Okay, he's being good, but he's he can't leave me to see these dogs is this within criteria.

I think so.

Oh look it little dog in a backpack, hey guys, hey have you been watching the channel? Leave it all right.

I was talking to them.

That's okay! Little correction! I said, leave it after the correction.

You say: leave it before the correction: okay, all right, so I was talking to them.

He barked little correction.

That's fine! Was he okay for that he was okay, he was.

He was fine.

That is not bad leash, walking all right.

We switched direction because we saw those dogs.

So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go back over here.

We're gonna, keep talking and we're going to walk over here, you're not going to do off leash when you feel like doing off leash you're going to do off leash when the dog lets you know, he's ready to do off leash.

Okay, he's got to perform certain tasks which is not leaving you.

If the dog is leaving you like, he just was there or he is there we're not going to off leash.

This is a they're going to earn their way to off leash good boy.

Is he going to get reinforced or he can get reinforced? Okay? Is he with me yeah? So when I'm not using this leash, that's when we're gonna get rid of the leash.

Until then, we need to be using this leash come over here.

Carly! Okay, a lot of you guys ask about peeing and releasing okay.

So here's what you do you simply say release.

Is he leaving me? Oh, he was okay right.

He got to the end.

He technically didn't pull.

I didn't love.

How close he was to the end, though, all day I'll do this.

He says yeah, but I want to come over here and I'm like, but that's not the deal.

Okay, I'll do so many stops I'll do so.

Many stops until the dog's with me.

Okay, relax your arm little shorter leash.

Then, when you stop release the leash, let the dog leave within criteria, not great.

I'm gonna up the treats a little bit just to get him back.

He's watching me, so he is not perfect.

However, he is kind of on my page.

Okay, sit.

There you go.

I only gave one cue.

Okay, all right have I used the leash in a while.

Has this? No, I haven't, gave it correction in 100 feet.

So now we're gonna start going off leash, it's technically, not off leash, there's a middle of the road before between it's very dangerous.

To take this leash off right now, I could just run away, probably wouldn't, but it can't happen like it literally can't happen.

So what I'm gonna do is drop.

This fish come on, I'm gonna up the treats a little bit.

Why am I doing the treats now- and I wasn't before as much because the leash is a better tool than treats, but I don't have the leash anymore.

I can't use the leash, so I'm just going to add a little bit of treats good.

Now we are now what you can do when he leaves is.

You can just step on the leash? Okay come on good boy.

He is essentially off leash at this point moose and give a little cue.

I, like the pat.

I like the pat better than a verbal cue car is coming pick.

The leaf shop come on all day all day.

There's no leaving me there's no leaving me.

Let's see if that last correction worked pretty good leave it.

I think he was leaving it I'll.

Do this I'll just keep doing it.

We have to let this guy know.

Leaving is not an option ever what you guys don't do enough of.

Is enough.

Stops the dogs in front of you.

You guys do not stop enough this.

You might have to do this for a few walks couple walks 10 walks.

I don't know, then, when it's fixed, it's kind of fixed, so you got to do the work early.

I've done probably 20 stops on this walk.

Okay.

Is he ready to go off leash? He is moose good boy.

Little treat off leash now releasing a dog there's, not gross great spots, to release him.

His this within criteria behind me is fine.

I feel good boy made a choice to stop right there.

If he gets in front of me- and he leaves me, then you can just step on the leash and the correction is applied that way.

Okay, let's turn around.

Let's see if he'll turn and follow me, moose good, low q use your hand good bring him over here.

Come on now.

The last thing thing: I'm not gonna.

Take him fully off leash he's a young dog he's been here a few days: that's not safe! Here's! What you're gonna do there's a bridge there's a middle of the road between uh, dropping the leash and off leash, and that is the fake leash takeoff.

So we're gonna walk, walk, walk! This is what you're gonna do and we're gonna go ready.

Okay, you're free then treat him moose.

Oh, but joel, my god, you said oh you're free and you didn't let him free.

Yes, that's exactly right! There's no free on a street with cars! There's no true free if you're on a come on, if you're on a uh, if you're on a hike- and you say free and he kind of wanders off leave it come on good boy through and leave it.

There's no true free on this on this correction applied.

Come here good, just the added little treats so leash, fake, leash.

Take off right! You come down, you make the sound like he's off leash and then eventually, once you in fact do go and you take the leash off the dog is like I don't know if I'm only sure off leash, which is the greatest thing ever.

That's what you want.

You really don't want.

The dog to know, if he's on leash or off leash, so you're going to go like this you're going to take it off and then you're going to hold the leash right here.

So the dog still sees the stimulus of the leash you're, not just going to be like this leash is gone and never coming back, moose good boy, you're going to kind of hold it here.

He doesn't really know if he's on leash or off leash.

Okay, sit stay car's, coming we're going to put this on and that's what you do then you just put this put this leash back on when car's coming or something or if the dog's like leaving you, oh he's offlation.

He keeps getting in front of me.

Okay, he's not ready, leash back on work, it more then drop the leash, then fake, leash, take off method, then full leash take off method, see how I've been down by the way.

Guys! That's the correction! The correction is just like this: they hit the end.

You apply two inches of correction they're, the ones hitting the end of the leash.

You know this.

Does it hurt him? Nope, not at all all right that is leash walking on a street.

This dog for a short period of time was off-leash was doing a full-off leash walk.

We are not ready to do that until we have worked him for about 300 yards, then he showed us that he was with me.

Yes, he was going out in front, but he was still like oh where's, that guy then I fake took the leash off some dogs.

You'll go like this, and you'll go and they'll go I'm out of here, but they have the leash on.

So you can correct them and then next time you do it again.

They go I'm out of here then, the third time you fake it and they're like I'm not going anywhere.

I don't know if I'm on a leash or not you got to bridge gaps, bridge the gap between the leash dropping.

Then the fake leak takeoff leash takeoff, then the actual leash take off dogs are like leashes on I have to be good.

Leash is off.

I can go nuts, that's not the deal now, if you're in a different context, a park or a hike, and you want to take it off and you want to throw in a queue for free you're as free as a bird, that's fine but like for me, and what I want out of dogs and raising a dog and training dogs is.

I want, like.

I don't ever want a a cue.

That's like.