How Do I Train My Dog To Walk Off A Leash?
Teaching a good come command (also called a recall) is a very important command when owning a dog for many reasons. For one, you can have your dog off-leash and feel confident about getting them back to you at any time. But, it takes a lot of repetition, as does all of the obedience before it would be successful off-leash. Take the command words themselves, seriously. In order to later be successful off-leash you will want to begin to teach the come while on-leash so that you can back up the command with good timing. What I mean by this is; imagine you have called your dog to come to you while off-leash and they don’t come, you have now begun to ruin that word for them because they realized they really don’t have to come to you. But if the dog was on leash when you called them you could have made sure they came to you no matter what which makes the command itself have more meaning. Of course you will later have that off leash control but if you do not first practice it on leash you can
