Took Vince to the park with his new leash yesterday

[elgancho]

it's just a 50' rope from Ace Hardware. tied it to his collar so he can just roam the woods and technically still be on leash. it's a big park with a lot of trails through the woods leading down to a lake. he loved it. he's really good at just sticking to the trail. :hail:

 

[Zoom]

Glad that worked! I cannot seem to do the same...mine like to go in and out of the trees, race ahead, double back and basically do everything possible to themselves completely tangled up.

 

[elgancho]

i was surprised. it was just a single-track trail with plenty of trees he could've gone around. but he stuck right to the trail. incredible.

 

[noludoru]

LOL you got lucky this time. Believe me.... someday he'll figure out hot to tangle himself and then you'll be in for it.

I'm lucky with mine, he knows how to UN-tangle himself if it's not too bad and he gets some encouragement, and he usually stays more or less on the trail so long as it's not too narrow. It's when we get into briar patches we have the problem. He likes to get the leash tangled in them and uproot them by the handful, and then I have branches with thorns as long as the first joint of my thumb to untangle from my lead.

 

[Barb04]

Love the color!

 

[elgancho]

yesterday he jumped in the lake to investigate a submerged tree trunk. awesome. up until now, he's been kinda afraid of water. he definitely likes lakes better than the ocean.

 

[houndlove]

We took our guys hiking in Vermont with them on 30 foot leashes and they also both surprisingly stayed untangled for the most part. They seemed to "get" the idea of a trail and that we were all moving forward as a unit. For some reason, Conrad can not accomplish the same task when we put him on his tie out in our own yard.