Flexy lead question

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Hi everyone, i don't look in here very often, but i know you can help. The flexi lead i have at the moment is at the end of it's life, and before i replace it, i thought i would ask you knowledgable people, what is the longest lead i can buy? The one i have is a medium weight.

Thankyou
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You should be able to get a good 1m or longer leather training lead in most smaller local pet shops. Or try a mail order pet company - a good long leather lead is the best thing you can have and the training leads will also have loops along it so you can shorten it if needed, they last a long time and are easy on your hands - put the flexi in the bin
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If you want a lot of length use a lunge line or order a tracking line or long line, they can go up to 15-20m.
 
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You should be able to get a good 1m or longer leather training lead in most smaller local pet shops. Or try a mail order pet company - a good long leather lead is the best thing you can have and the training leads will also have loops along it so you can shorten it if needed, they last a long time and are easy on your hands - put the flexi in the bin
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If you want a lot of length use a lunge line or order a tracking line or long line, they can go up to 15-20m.

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C C, i bow to your greater knowledge, but, it is the flexi lead that i want, i have used a lunge line but he tangles himself up in it.
I take it that you don't like them, why?
 
I detest the flexi leads...
People round here just use them as an excuse for their dogs to have no manners on the lead. They tangle people up and give other people NO room to pass (ppl with the flexi leads dont seem to think its a problem... untill my terrier tries to scrap with their dogs)

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Oi, stop bowing!!!! I just dinny like flexi leads
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They're OK for smaller dogs but for anything above your knee, you're basically controlling your dog with a lump of plastic which you can only hold in one hand (try putting your other on the line that comes out - ouch) and relying on the strength of a little plastic button/stopper to stop the line running out if the dog really wants to go for something.

At least with a lead or long line, you have two hand control, we've all lunged horses and got used to managing the line, you learn to be quick on the draw with gathering up the length
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Sorry I can't help re flexis, maybe someone else can advise
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I've got a 8m one which I do use on occasion (OH uses it more) - think most are around 5m? It's a bit old and manky, but could probably find out where I got it from! If my girl is on a lead she's walked on the end of a very manky leadrope.
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FWIW, I don't have a problem with people using flexi leads as long as they can control their dog on it (easier said than done with a spangle!) so I suppose it's individual preference, though I can understand completely why they're not entirely popular - the flipping rope burn I got from mine certainly lowered my opinion
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(but then I've done that with the leadrope too!)
 
My sister uses them for walking the Huskies as you cant let them off the lead and expect them to come back, ever!

She uses the ones that are nylon all the way down and not the rope ones as they are not strong enough for them. They are attached with a Karabiner to a belt that she wears so they can't be dropped by accident and disappear with said husky! They are at least 8m long and are the very strong ones for big dogs, so are expensive I believe.
 
I HAVE A FLEXI!
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The last one I used it on was my niece
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. Two years ago when my sisters children was staying some time with us in the summer home she developed a habit of walking slower and slower towards the end of the walks, so I asked if she wanted some pulling help? She said yes and on the next walk I brought the Flexi and when she started to lose speed I hooked her up on a Flexi that I attached to my waist bag.

I maybe should mention that my sister and B-I-L approves of the fact that my house rule is that unless their children is really ill while visiting us, they must come with me on my dog walks.



Though I have one, I don't really like them, only used them on some dogs on specific occasions but I do prefer the long line myself. I know owners who can use them, e.g. a Greyhound owner who lives in the neighbourhood (doesn't only know there is a stop button but actually have managed to figure out how it works too
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) but they are rare exceptions, whenever I hear about dogs being run over/dogs getting in a fight/dogs biting people whilst on lead, 9 times out of 10, the lead was retractable.


As far as I've been able to find out, Flexi's come in 3, 5 and 8 metres. http://www.flexi-retractable-lead.co.uk/ http://www.doggiesolutions.co.uk/dog-retractable-flexi-lead-9480-0.html
 
Thanks everyone for your input, C C, he is a small dog, terrier, i was given him when he was nearly two, and having previously been owned by a farmer, who encouraged him to hunt rabbit, and come home when he felt like it, i have to keep him on the lead when we check ponies who are on about a hundred acres of common land, otherwise he's down a rabbit hole in second's.
His recall is a lot better than it was, but the killer instinct allways gets the better of him.
 
No worries
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if it works, it works, I used a longline on a harness with B when he was arsey about coming back but I can see how they cause problems for smaller dogs wummaging in the undergwoth, as David Bellamy would say
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There's a couple who walk a big husky on a harness at the end of a flexi-lead near us and the guy's arm is out full stretch, I try and avoid them at all costs because the dog would be on top of us two miles before the owner would be able to to anything about it!
 
I use one (7 metres) as I have an alaskan malamute who has a high prey drive so unless I know we are in a fully fenced field she is on one- it allows her to trot on and sniff things and get more out of her walk- if we are in publis- i.e town she is walked on a normal leather lead- but my flexi certainly has it place- and she never pulls on it
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I use one (7 metres) as I have an alaskan malamute who has a high prey drive so unless I know we are in a fully fenced field she is on one- it allows her to trot on and sniff things and get more out of her walk- if we are in publis- i.e town she is walked on a normal leather lead- but my flexi certainly has it place- and she never pulls on it
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This ^^^^ excactly. We very rarely ever walk in town, and i would'nt consider ever walking them on a extended lead on a pavement.
 
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