Ideas
- Talk about if you would have the dog on the lead or off
- Dogs different personalities
- Demonstrate how to set up the dog before you start the walk
- Say why he should be next to you
- Dog habits and the history behind it
- Why they should never walk in front of you on the lead
- Consequences
- If you want to train the dog
- Habits that you need to get the dog into
- Finish by closing with good things about doing all of the above
Speech
Hi, I’m Lea and today I will demonstrate how to walk a dog on the lead and the tools you will need when doing this. However, since I don’t have my dog with me today because he is always so excited when meeting people so instead I will have Lauren pretending to be my dog. To start off I want to tell you what I believe to be the most important part of walking a dog, which is to have the dog walking right next to you when your walking. Because walking is one of the few things that a dog takes in to determine who is the Alpha. Its in a dogs nature to always have the need for an Alpha, and if you want to be the Alpha making sure you are in command then this is something you will need to remember.
Dependent on which breed of dog you have, you may or may not need a harness, but for my demonstrating I will be using one because I have a German Shepard with a lot of personality to him. so when applying the harness you will need to ensure that the part you attach the lead to is on the back of the dog, then clip the buckle around his two front legs as so. once the harness is on the dog, you can then clip the lead on to the harness. You are now ready to start walking. But here’s the hard part you have to ensure that the dog stays by your side otherwise he will think that he is in control of you since he would be leading you around. to make sure that doesn’t happen you should have a saying or a word that the dog knows which means to stay by your side. the word that I use is Foose, this is a german word for heel. German words are very useful when training a dog because the words are very distinctive making it easier for the dog to determine which command he needs to follow. don’t worry if you haven’t got this word because I will be teaching you how to train the dog in order to walk him or her properly.
irst things first make sure that you have lots of treats in your pocket. to reward the dog when he or she has done what was asked of him. start by repeating the word or phrase that you will be using to keep him by your side. if he or she refuses to do so then you need to tug on the lead and keep him by your side when he or she is staying there without rebelling towards you. you reward him with a treat and say the word you would use from an example I would say good boy Foose and feed him a treat. this would have to be done repetitively overtime for the dog to understand what the word means. and remember you will need to be patient with the dog because the dog would understand what you want him to do overnight.
Thank you for listening and I hope that you can now leave here and take away some of the information I gave you.