Dog Training - Loose Leash Walking

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Leigh Siegfried
Dog Lady, Opportunity Barks Behavior & Training
www.opbarks.com  
1-888-672-2757

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Leigh Siegfried is the owner of Opportunity Barks Behavior & Training. Opportunity Barks is a full service business offering behavior counseling, group classes and workshops for dog folks. For more information, visit www.opbarks.com or email info@opbarks.com.

<span>Leigh began her work with dogs as a volunteer at a nonprofit animal shelter. She is a Certified Pet Dog Trainer and her experience includes managing an award-winning dog daycare and training facility, as well as working as the Behavior and Manager for the Washington Animal Rescue League (WARL). While at WARL she performed behavior evaluations, provided follow up support for adopters and implemented enrichment and training programs. She also had the unique opportunity to create enrichment protocols for 11 of the seized Michael Vick dogs while they were awaiting release to rescue. Currently when not working with dogs and their people, Leigh is on the road, speaking and training other folks. She's been a featured speaker at HSUS Expo and Petfinder Adoption Options.</span>

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Dog Training - Loose Leash Walking

In this video, Certified Pet Dog Trainer, Leigh Siegfried describes how to turn your unruly fido into a leash walking dream. This video series includes and finding your dog's motivation, using the right equipment to prevent pulling, tips and techniques to lay a foundation for a working relationship before you hit the sidewalk, and what to do once you get in the real world.

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Leigh Siegfried: Hi, I am Leigh with Opportunity Barks Behavior & Training. Today we are working on teaching your dog to walk politely on a leash and the first thing we are going to get to is what is Loose Leash Walking?

Many folks think that their dog should just not pull on a leash. However, it's totally a normal dog behavior for your dog to be sniffing and forging and gathering information when they are outside. It's like they are outside checking their pee male. Walking next to you is not a normal behavior, it's just as much of a trick as training your dog to do anything like sitting or rolling over. So what we need to do is really up to us to give the dog the feedback about what behavior we like and ideally, we like the dog walking beside us and not pulling on leash. What we are going to do is reward that behavior so that the dog is more likely to make the right choice in the future and is less likely to pull you when you are out for a walk. So what do you reward your dog with. We are going to talk about that next.

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