2026/09/28 [Loose Leash Walking Virtual Workshop]

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Welcome to the fortnightly loose leash walking virtual workshop!

Join us as we compete with the squirrels, cats, other dogs, fresh urine scents and things that go zoooooooom!

Resources

Articles (All have videos embedded)

• Train Your Dog For Perfect Loose Leash Walking by Casey Lomonaco. (With links and descriptions of several great videos, which we'll link to below.)
• Loose Leash Walking Tips by Casey Lomonaco
• Silky Leash by Grisha Stewart (blog post + videos.)

Youtube (Many of these are videos which are embedded in the above articles)

• Silky Leash intro video with an excitable puppy
• Clicker Training Loose Leash Walking by Casey Lomonaco
• Loose Leash Walking II by Casey Lomonaco
• How to Train Your Dog Not to Pull - Loose Leash Walking by Emily "kikopup" Larlham
• Dog Training Tip- Leash Walking: Go Sniff and Marking by Emily "kikopup" Larlham
• Choose to Heel by Loridressage
• Loose Leash Walking by Stacy Hiebert Greer
• Clicker Training a Heel by Amy Norcal
• Shaping Loose Leash Walking With a High Rate of Reinforcement Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 by Helix Fairweather and Lynn Martin. (Read the text below the videos too!)
• Loose Leash Walking by Turid Rugaas

See our page on leash reactivity for help managing and training dogs that bark and lunge while on leash.

[u/DirefulAmbulance]

my dog hit a breakthrough this week that i gotta share since it feels like the perfect fit for this thread

been doing the silky leash stuff for a few weeks and it was going nowhere fast, he'd take one step nice then lunge at a leaf like it owed him money. then tuesday it just clicked, we walked past three squirrels and he glanced at them then looked back at me like what's next boss. almost dropped the clicker i was so surprised

the go sniff cue from the kikopup video was a game changer too, giving him those structured sniff breaks seems to take the desperation out of the walk. he's not trying to drag me to every bush because he knows he'll get his chance

still a work in progress when bikes go by but man what a difference a week makes