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Tips on using the leash on your dog.

The leash is the link between you and your dog. Your Dog can feel the vibrations you send through the leash. A tight leash is one reason why dogs will show aggression or dominating behavior because to the dog a tight leash means to be tense.

The tension message felt through the leash causes your dog to fight against the leash by pulling, straining and struggling which develop dominating and aggressive behavior. The tension tells the dog that you are fearful or nervous of something. Since dogs can smell fear pheromones and probably sense or smell nervousness in people, this can cause the dog to react aggressively as a means of scaring off the cause of your fear or nervousness. The cause may even be something you or your dog does not even see.

If you generally have nervousness toward a situation, the dog may react toward it aggressively. If you have an aggressive dog and you fear or are nervous toward the dog, the dog will sense this and could react aggressively toward this emotion. Fear and nervousness from the owner and other people is a big factor to cause aggression while the dog is being held by a tight leash.


What you need to do is let there be slack in the leash and when your dog gets to the end of the leash, jerk the leash in a quick snap or yank while commanding, "No!". Then quickly bring the leash back into the slack position each time your dog pulls and this will teach her to not pull at you.
You may have to repeat this quickly until he or she stops the pulling. This way you won't have to have your dog at the heel position all the time, if your dog knows the heel.