This is Part Four in a series of instructional videos by Janeane Garofalo-lookalike certified dog professional Cindi Tringali. As the owner of two dogs who walk me, rather than letting me walk them, I found this information extremely helpful, but the delivery is a little strange. I guess Cindi has spent many years training dogs – an important component of dog training is repetition. This video is a little repetitious. That’s OK, though, because you get to see how she teaches a dog how to walk on a “loose leash.” In other words, how to get your dog NOT to pull on the leash like a madman.
The instruction is sound, and she makes some excellent suggestions. She also shows you how to integrate this dog training method with some others. One thing that was very nice was that she demonstrated the “loose leash” procedure with her personal dog, and then with a larger dog that hadn’t been trained previously. So it turns out, after all, that holding a treat on a stick in front of your dog is NOT the best way to get him to behave on a leash.