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Quick answer: Stop letting the pull work. The moment the lead goes tight, stop walking or turn away, and only move forward again when it is slack. Pay the dog for being beside your leg, often, before it has a...
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Quick answer: Mantrailing teaches a dog to follow one specific person's scent, wherever it drifts, on a long line and harness. Tracking teaches it to follow the exact footstep path a person laid. Scent work teaches it to find a...
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Quick answer: The job decides the harness. A tracking harness lets the dog lean into a long line with the shoulders free. A search harness adds hi vis and a lifting handle. An agitation harness takes sudden, heavy load in...
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Quick answer: Match the equipment to the dog's stage of training, not to its age. Puppies start on soft microfibre or lambskin tugs. Young dogs move up to jute, leather and French linen tugs, then to multi-handle bite cushions. A...
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A working-handler method for prong collars: correct gauge, how to put one on, the two-lead safety setup, and how to give a brief, fair correction.
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