puppy walking
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| Is the pavement too hot? Are your puppies paw pads OK? Plenty of water? Perhaps the pace is too quick? Perhaps it's just a phase, how long has this been going on?
Just some ideas. |
| Everything is fine. He was walking ok when we first started but now doesn't want to move for the last 10 or so days. He'll walk with my partner but not me. I did pick him up a few times when he wouldn't walk. Could it be he's waiting to be picked up again? He will walk home fine and pulls to go back home. if i have teats or as toy he'll move for them but then sit down and this only works so far. If it happened to boyfriend as well i'd understand. |
| He's just a baby yet, he may not be ready for longer walks, maybe try shortening your walk? |
| my first few times with walter, we couldn't get more than 2-3 driveways, and then he wouldn't go any further. so, we'd go back, and find some other exercise...
it was snowing out when i got him, so that may have had something to do with it, as with Ron's hot pavement suggestion. Last thing you want to do is make it a traumatic experience for him...then he'll never want to walk. I also tried the puppy backback for walter when he was in his not walking/walking crazily time... http://www.buyoutwardhound.com/kj-00586.html he got to carry water, treats, toys, cleanup bags, etc. since sheepies enjoy having a job to do, this made him much calmer and focused. We still use it when we go on longer walks, and he really seems to enjoy it. Good luck! |
| Scruffy did that for a little while when she was a puppy, she would just sit down or start walking really funny like soemthing was hurting her. Everytime I would stop and check her out to find nothing wrong. She eventually grew out of it and loves walks now. |
| Thanks for all the replies. I hope he will get over it. It's the fact he'll walk for my boyfriend thats the problem as it seems i'm the problem! |
| We have a 4 mth old sheepie and if we are walking her alone then she gets very nervous and will only go to the end of our block. That is the extent of her comfort zone. If I walk her along with her with our 2 older sheepies then she will walk and walk and walk. She feels much safer with them.
I firmly believe that as puppies they establish a comfort zone. Each week I try to walk her one or two driveways further than we went previously and slowly but surely we are expanding her world. Hope that helps you. |
| Try walking him with your boyfriend. Let your boyfriend take the lease and you just walk along. Look for small clues about what is different: body language (human), route, etc. If things are going well just casually take the leash yourself, without mentioning anything at all, just do it with absolutely no fanfare. See how that goes.
Our first OES loved walks--except if most of the family had gone on a daytrip and left him and one of the parents home. He went a few blocks only, further very reluctantly. It was as if he felt it was his job to wait at home for the rest of the family to return. It didn't matter which adult was home with him--and it was different if it was just for school/work which was fine, or a shopping trip, which was fine. If it was an all day thing: trip to the zoo, for example, it bothered him to be away from home. |
| Usually we go together. If i take the leash he can sit down at times. Last night they went alone and he was fine. I took him out this morning and he walked a short was, which was an improvement, then sat down. We went home and i tried again and he stopped again. On the way back i managed to get him to move past house. He sat a little way along. In the end i carried him a bit on way to park and he then walked. In park and on way home was fine, even taking him to house and away slightly so think i'm getting there. I hope so! |
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