Beagle Training - How To Stop Your Beagle From Leash Pulling For Good!
Beagles pull on their leash as a matter of instinct. As hunting animals, they live for the chase so your Beagle will often pull because he is in pursuit of something (i.e. your neighbor's cat, a chipmunk, or even another Beagle). There are other reasons that are just as common though. It's possible that he is overly excited about his daily exercise session. It is also possible that he sees himself as the Alpha dog in your family. If this is the case, he regards you as the one who is being disobediently slow!
The traditional training method
Regardless of the reason, the traditional method of addressing the issue of pulling on the leash is more or less the same. It requires a series of simple repeated interventions. Here's the scenario:
Your Beagle pulls on the leash...You stop...You issue a sharp command such as "No!"...At the same moment give a quick tug on the leash...Let the leash go slack...Start walking again...Repeat as necessary.
If you give enough repetition to this technique it will eventually work. Outdated methods such as the use of choke chains and collars are totally unnecessary.
Head and harness collars
Another innovative training technique for Beagle owners who are tired of their Beagles yanking them around by the leash are head and harness collars. There are several varieties of this type of device with the Halti Training Head Collar being the best known. Rather than the traditional dog collar that goes around the neck, the Halti consists of a nylon nose strap and neck strap. You attach the leash to a ring at the end of short strap under the dog's chin.
The two straps each have a specific function. The nose strap replicates the practice of showing pack dominance between two animals. One Beagle in the pack will firmly take another's muzzle into his own in an act of dominance.
The neck strap works differently and is intended to calm the Beagle my mimicking the practice of his mother grasping him by the back of the neck.
Beagles usually respond to an applied force by exerting an opposing force, which is why they often respond to a backwards pull of the leash with more pulling! The Halti is designed to reverse this behavior. The strap applies pressure to the back of the neck instead of the front of the throat and arrests any forward movement when that force is exerted. Also, in a fashion similar to a horse's bridle you control the head of the Beagle. It is said that if you control the head, you control the beast.
Solutions that work
Regardless of which of these two training methods you choose, you will have success. It is a common myth that Beagles are too stubborn to be leash trained. That is absolutely incorrect. With patience and consistency your Beagle will be a joy to walk!
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Clayton James is the founder of FreeBeagleTraining.com.
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