Flexi Leads

[Cinnamontoast]

Sorry to be a thicko, but with long leads do they literally just trail behind the dog? We tend to walk through woodland, so I'm imagining all sorts of snagging.... but we do have a route across an open field where we could use one

I only ever used it in the park/on the playing field. He would have been tangled in seconds in the woods!

 

[GirlFriday]

The loop on a long line is not meant to be a Bejaysus Handle. It's not waterskiing. The idea is that the dog never reaches the end of the line. You stand on it or pick it up beforehand. Simples.

^Idealist...

 

[{97702}]

You could construct some serious knitting with a horde of pointy hounds all on lines.

Now that would be FUN

 

[{97702}]

^Idealist...

Seriously, you can’t predict when and where your dog is going to run? It’s one of the first things you learn as a sighthound owner, I remember my induction aged 17 very clearly I would always be able to stop a long long line, it’s stopping the ******* going in the first place that can be difficult with deer/foxes/squirrels/rabbits around

 

[GirlFriday]

Seriously, you can’t predict when and where your dog is going to run? It’s one of the first things you learn as a sighthound owner, I remember my induction aged 17 very clearly I would always be able to stop a long long line, it’s stopping the ******* going in the first place that can be difficult with deer/foxes/squirrels/rabbits around

I have a terrier-x, not a sight-hound.

But I was visualising some kind of large hungarian(?) shepherd thing with black almost dreadlocks and a black lunge line in a HUGE tangle when I wrote it,

 

[oldie48]

I hate them, I am on the point of divorcing OH who will sneak off with Stan using a flexi lead off his collar despite me asking him to use the halter with either a short lead or the long line. He can undo all my hard work training him to walk nicely on a loose leash in one outing and it doesn't help recall either. He is driving me demented, cleary I am useless at training OH but perhaps that's because I use negative reinforcement rather than a reward system!!!

 

[paisley]

Seriously, you can’t predict when and where your dog is going to run? It’s one of the first things you learn as a sighthound owner, I remember my induction aged 17 very clearly I would always be able to stop a long long line, it’s stopping the ******* going in the first place that can be difficult with deer/foxes/squirrels/rabbits around

Classic example was today when out on a walk with my whippet and a friend and her terrier. Mid conversation I'm roaring 'WAIT THERE!!!', and having to explain there are 2 bunnies in the hedge three fields away and it's getting a bit dark for the whippet to be beggaring off.

 

[{97702}]

Classic example was today when out on a walk with my whippet and a friend and her terrier. Mid conversation I'm roaring 'WAIT THERE!!!', and having to explain there are 2 bunnies in the hedge three fields away and it's getting a bit dark for the whippet to be beggaring off.

Brilliant paisley Yep that is just it....

 

[GirlFriday]

He can undo all my hard work training him to walk nicely on a loose leash in one outing and it doesn't help recall either. He is driving me demented, cleary I am useless at training OH but perhaps that's because I use negative reinforcement rather than a reward system!!!

Perhaps you could think of _some means or another_ to reward him for using his thumb to clip the flexi into fixed position for 'at heal' type sections of the walk? It is then no different to you (presumably then available for rewards...) fixed leash at that point, no? ;-)