What do you walk your guys with?

Choke chain or a martingale collar on a short lead.

Thick buckled collar on a flexi or long line. (Borzoi so not let off lead away form own land.)

Thin bucked collar to hold id tags but never has a lead on it.
 
Head collar currently, or off lead, used to be a headcollar (shortlead) and harness (flexi), but can not wear a harness atm due to the ouchie!- and to be honest it doesnt actually matter.
 
Normal collar and lead, although the long line is always in the car in case of an attack of the naughties;)
 
My 2 have half check collars and when Im training Diesel on the road I use a choke chain. I have used a canny collar in the past but when you let your dog off you have to clip it all up and its too much faffing about for me.
 
Big dog:
I walk him on a padded half check and extendable lead :o on his 'normal' walk.
Mum walks him on a small link choke chain on the live link and a long leather lead.
For crowds or any high pressure environment, the choke chain on the dead link, leather lead and a pinch collar with a hand strap as a back-up (although very rarely used).
Beach or hide and seek, harness and a long line.
Slip leads for vet trips, moving from car to kennels etc.

Little dog:
Long line and either padded collar or large link choke chain on the dead link for beach, forest.
Leather lead and large link choke on the dead link or flat webbing collar and lead for short work.
Slip lead for training sessions on the field.

(Can you tell I have a lead fetish :p)
 
Latest inventory of shame:

Two flat nylon semi-slip racing collars
One nylon half check
One bespoke leather half check
One long link choke chain
One rope slip lead
Two flat 1.8m nylon leads
One 48" leather lead
Two Flexi Giant extendable leads
One 25ft cotton webbing lunge line
Two 50ft nylon lines
One fleece padded shoulder harness
Two neoprene padded long distance harnesses
Two x-back racing harnesses
One double lead tugline with damper and accompanying neckline
Two 2 metre bungee leads
One neoprene padded walking belt with swivel carabiner
One nylon two-dog coupler

All of these get used in various situations. :o
 
Normal collars and leads. Although take slip lead for Teal as easier to get him with and lighter in my pocket. He has a harness for going running with but only as I'm worried if we did fall over each other I won't pull his neck. Also using a long line on puppy atm as his beautiful recall has gone Walkies since he found his balls.
 
Normal leather roller collar and lead with a Gentle Leader in my pocket which I generally only have to use at the beginning of the walk when he's excited!!
 
One has half check collar but then to be honest she's not on the lead that often, only when walking on or crossing roads. The other has a normal collar and extendable lead as he's a tad deaf so can be tricky to get back if he goes off on a little wander!
 
All wear flat collars with tags 24/7.

Old girl has a slip lead - very rarely needs it.
Thug terrier has a slip lead for going to car from house. He also has a horse lead rein to tether him in the car :D as he likes to exit the boot at speed. Depending on where we go he then has a harness and long line or a flexi. (I'm mortified to admit to now owning a flexi as I hate them but I learnt the hard way that a long line didn't work in woods...)
Big dog has a half choke because he learnt to reverse out a flat collar and a training lead.
 
CaveCanem said:
I hope this doesn't mean your new charge did a bunk or burned your hands at the weekend :p (I've learned to use gloves with a long line :p)

How did you get on? Piccies?
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Haha, I wasn't at training due to a being a bit tipsy from the night before, and you can guarantee when they had told us to sit, it would have been me that did it and not the dog. We're getting along Okay, the trainers made a booboo, and put the dog straight into tunnels, fences, and recall without the basics, so his fence hopping and recall is brilliant, it's just the basics. We're going to try him on a half check collar, and im hoping with a few weeks / month of it he'll be walking to heel and behaving and then I can put him back to a normal collar as the other method we were taught for the walking to heel, just didn't seem to work. He's an incredibly bright dog, he just uses it against us at times! :P Oh, and he's a springerman! :p
 
Brontie, I've just read a very interesting book called 'How to train impossible dogs' (or something along those lines). It wasn't very expensive from Amazon, and it has given me some food for thought about channelling drives and using motivators like sniffing, hunting etc for training. You might also find it quite interesting?:) I can find you the link, if you like:)
 
Padded collar (no real reason why) and either an extendable or short lead (depends where we're going and what we're doing) :)
 
Oh I thought you were taking him to the village fair? Am I mixing you up or is this the puppy? He shouldn't really be doing any repetitive jumping heights if he is a young pup IMO.
And I'll warn you, with some dogs, it takes more than a month to get a good heel :p
Again, sorry if I am mixing you up with someone else :o
 
Ahah yes! We took him to the fair! Sorry, I was getting confused! Well we sat outside when the parade went by, and he was Okay with the sights and the noises but wasn't too keen with the Bag pipes, can't say I blame him ;). We took him down the fair, He was good but we weren't out for long. Barely anyone looked where they were walking and it was far too over crowded. We did have a laugh though, a feather from a boa was on the floor, and he managed to get it stuck on his nose, and freaked out at it bless him! He's a great dog, just incredibly challenging at times!
 
CaveCanem said:
Oh I thought you were taking him to the village fair? Am I mixing you up or is this the puppy? He shouldn't really be doing any repetitive jumping heights if he is a young pup IMO.
And I'll warn you, with some dogs, it takes more than a month to get a good heel :p
Again, sorry if I am mixing you up with someone else :o
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Oh you`re too funny CC:D.."more than a month"..Hmm..it takes THAT LONG:o for a bull terrier to KNOW IT`S NAME!!:D:D:D:D
 
Took me a few days to teach my old GSP x to heel with a check chain and leather training lead.

Had Springer two years now and she's just getting it (mostly :o) tried all sorts of gadgets - settled on a rope slip lead in the end - sometimes it even goes loose on her shoulders :eek:
 
Mine are all in flat collars. I have a couple of halter ropes and my hunting whip. Taking up to 11 dogs on a walk makes leads impossible!

I am lucky in that I have no roads and if on a long different walk and do have to cross a road, then all I have to do is to tell them to 'Come in' and they stay behind the thong of my whip.

The only time I ever have dogs on a lead is if I am doing training or if I am away from here and walking where there are roads. Then I do not have all 11!

Does this entitle me to join the 'Leather, Chain and Whip Group'?
 
Dobiegirl said:
Bloody hell Blackcob Scott took less than that to the Antartic.:D
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PMSL :D.

To answer your question Brontie, two beagles and one bigger mix. All wear harnesses. For trail walking, the two who can go off the lead (one of the beagles and the mix) wear short leads because they are only on them from getting out the car to a short way down the trail we are about to walk. The beagle who can't go off the lead (for his and everyone else's safety :D) goes on an extending lead. If we are around people or walking in a more built-up area, short leads for all of them and the beagle who is fearful wears a gentle leader instead of a harness.
 
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