LPT: if your dog is being playful and you need to catch them, try running away to have them chase and catch you.
Extra pro tip for new dog owners:
Try to never, ever, EVER. chase your dog. If they don’t think it’s a game, they won’t do this.
Of course there are emergencies, but try to always make it a game of them coming to you.
My dog stopped falling for this after I got her to chase me back into the house a few times
Mine always stops before the doorway
This is clever and adorable :)
Play bow. Dogs do this to each other, too, as a signal that they want to play.
Source: I speak dog.
Source: I speak dog
Oh yeah?? Say three words in dog!
Bark, woof, grrrrr
Bravo! Although, I repeated it to my dog and she seemed offended…
Are you sure you didn’t say arf woof grrr? Huge mistake.
I bought a 25 foot leash when training my dog. I’ll never catch him if he doesn’t want me to, but I can get within 25 feet of him.
We use that on trails so he can be “free”
Also helps that he’s 10lbs, the 10m leash slows him down just from dragging on the ground
My boy has since passed on, but he would never consider leaving us. So we just let him off the leash on the trails. Whenever we heard people ahead of us we’d call him back and put him back on the leash until they were out of earshot again. It never caused any problems in the 12 years he was with us. Such a precious, beautiful boy.
If your dog is ever running and you can’t catch them act hurt. Pretend to fall and hurt your knee. Most likely it will come back and check on you and you grab it, unless it’s playing with something else then good luck
And praise them when they return. If you yell at our punish them, they’ll associate it with returning rather than running off.
