How to train
3 Dogs To Walk Together
The SECRET to Walking Multiple Dogs AT THE SAME TIME | InRuffCompany.com
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hey everybody and welcome back today we
are going to be talking about the
absolute most important things that you
can learn as an aspiring dog walker and
that is how to walk multiple dogs at the
same time I have learned all of this
stuff through trial and error through
years of walking dogs I've walked
anywhere from 1 to 6 dogs at the same
time and I've clearly survived to tell
the tale so I want to share some of the
knowledge that I have with you so that
you can start off your dog walking
experiences as smooth as possible first
things first we want to talk about
leashes so I suggest actually bringing
some of your own leashes along on walks
and the reason is that there will be a
lot of times that you go to clients
houses and the leashes won't really be
appropriate for walking multiple dogs
they may be great for one dog but you're
walking 6 so what kind of leashes you
need you need a leash that is 6 feet or
shorter ideally shorter the more leash
that there is the easier it is to get
tangled and tangled leashes is the death
of all dog walkers you want to make sure
that those leashes are not tangling and
so how you do that is you start off with
proper leashes so bring some with you
never ever ever use a retractable leash
these leashes are great if you're just
walking one dog at a time but when
you're walking multiple it is absolutely
absolutely terrible the reason why these
are so bad is that you kind of have to
use your hand when you're holding it and
you do want to keep your hands-free when
you have a whole bunch of dogs just in
case anything happens also with the
retractable leashes it's so thin and it
tangles so easily with all the other
leashes and it's really hard to get
untangled so they're just they're just
terrible just avoid them in general when
you're walking multiple dogs you're
gonna want to use a waist leash so that
is just a leash that ties around your
waist and you can hook all of the dog's
leashes into that that way the dogs are
fully attached to you so if they do see
a squirrel and they want a bolt they
can't get away from you because they're
gonna take you down with them try not to
wrap the leashes around your wrist
I have seen people break their hands
through doing this when all of the dogs
decide to pull at the same time so what
I suggest if you do need an extra little
bit of hold you can tie a knot into the
leash and that way you can grab on to
that if you do need to pull a dog closer
to you for whatever reason but
definitely don't put it around your
wrists because that's just bad news
bears one thing to note is that the
leashes will tangle despite your best
efforts so I suggest everyone snowy
stopping to untangle them that way they
don't just get all crisscross see all
the time if you are doing this though
make sure that you're doing it in an
area that doesn't have a lot of
distractions because as you're
untangling the dogs could possibly go to
waste you want to make sure that it's in
a really like chill zone and that
they're not all hyper when you are doing
this okay now we're gonna talk about the
actual walk so the dogs are gonna just
naturally fall into a sort of hierarchy
so there's gonna be one or two dogs that
are gonna want to pull ahead and be the
leader and then for the most part
everybody else just sort of falls in
line and just walks really nicely beside
you so you're gonna want to make sure
that you have your hands on the leashes
of those dogs that are pulling ahead and
for the most part those other dogs that
are following behind you may not have to
touch that leash at all because they're
attached to you during the whole time
having the same dogs every day you're
going to get a better sense of who is
gonna be those dogs that pull to the
front so you can kind of anticipate that
it all works out how it's supposed to do
so just go with the natural flow of the
hierarchy of your pack you need to be
hyper aware of what's going on around
you at all times that means that you
need to see the squirrel across the
street before the dogs see it or you
need to see the skateboarder that's
gonna be coming at you that way you can
kind of hunker down and prepare for that
before the dogs get all excited and
crazy and start lunging at different
things so make sure that you are hyper
aware of everything that's going in your
general zone throughout the course of
the walk if there are dogs coming
towards you on the street cross the
street just don't even get into that
even if your dogs are amazing with other
dogs they're gonna get super excited
from being around that dog and then the
leashes are gonna tangle and it's gonna
take you a long time to calm them down
so if you do see a dog just cross the
street it's much easier that way and try
not to let other people pet your dogs
for the same reason know the difference
between sniffing to pee and sniffing
just for the sake of sniffing you don't
want to be stopping every five seconds
for your dog you want to make make sure
that they get enough exercise throughout
the course of the walk so you do want to
let them get a good whiff of whatever it
is that they're smelling but then you
want to encourage them to keep on moving
forward if you stop for long periods
there's more of a chance for the leashes
of tangle and then you're in trouble it
is very very important that you never
let the dogs cross behind you if they do
that then the leashes gonna tuck behind
your legs and then if they see a
squirrel or something like that you're
gonna wipe out hard because they're
gonna pull you so you want all the
leashes to be in front of you if a dog
does try to cross behind you you can
just gently encourage it to go in front
of you so that there's no leashes behind
your legs in general residential streets
are much better than busy city streets
to walk on and that's because there's
less distractions for the dogs so they
can just be more focused on the actual
walk and also it's just better vibes in
general generally the more dogs that you
walk the better that you're gonna get at
this but hopefully this is a really good
starting point for you when you're just
beginning dog walking I definitely
suggest starting with less dogs first
and then working your way up to six dogs
because six is a lot it can be really
overwhelming
so definitely work your way into it and
do have faith that you are gonna get
better it is something that you learn
and that takes a little bit of practice
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