Hallaejuia!!!!!!
What a day this could have been, but I am so gratetful, it turned out so well!! My daughter and I were just starting out our short walk this morning before we had to leave in about an hour. We were just in front of our house, the dogs were doing their business, and all of a sudden, across the street is a dog being walked. No big deal, right? Well, Lance gets very excited when he sees another dog, and pulls pretty hard. Well, before I knew it , he pulled really hard and I hear his tags all jingling down to the grass!!! Lance takes two stpes into the street...and I in a panicked voice yelll, Lance, NO...back to the house!!!!! He turned right back around and headed up our driveway to the garage door, taking a turn for the front door. I tell him to sit, and he does...my daughter grabs his collar while I open the garage with the keyless entry. Phewwwwwwwwww...... Good Boy!!!!!!
I have to say I'm VERY impressed that Lance listened so well, with a dog being right across the street, that he wanted to go and say hello to. The other dog was very calm too, no barking or anything. Lance wasn't barking either, he probably was in shock he was so free...lol. The dog that was across the street has previously been walked off leash in our neighborhood, thankfully this time they had him on a leash. This dog also at one time was in our backyar, off leash, when I came home from work one day. I immediately drove to the neighbors house, around the block to alert the owner. She came right over and got her dog and he went right home with her. If the dog had been off leash the scenario could have been a bit different today. There was also a car coming down the street when Lance went to go cross the street as well, but was a good boy and listeneed to my commands. :)
We came into the house and Lance immediately was given treats. So, how did lance escape?? The leash was clipped onto the tag collar ring instead of the collar ring, which is much stronger and should always be clipped to that ring. My daughter accidentally clipped it to the wrong one, I have made that mistake with Lance when he was a puppy putting him on his lead outside in the backyard, that time he saw a jogger run by, and got a bit excited and pop...he was free. I definately ALWAYS make sure I don't make that mistake again and I am sure my daughter will be more aware of where she is clipping the leash as well from now on.
ALWAYS BE SURE TO CLIP THE LEASH TO THE COLLAR, NOT THE TAG COLLAR.
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Permalink Reply by Jane Christensen on
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I also have started buying the stainless steel car key rings...one they are stronger and two...their white fur doesn't turn grey:)
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Permalink Reply by Snickmom on
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One of my favorite Snickers stories- We were going on our first walk and we came up to a house with a dog meanly barking at his gate. My Spaniel was lunging and barking back at him. I got Jack calmed down, looked down the leash to the empty collar laying on the sidewalk, looked up, and there was my baby corgi running down the sidewalk toward home as fast as her little stumps could take her! Now we use slip chains or halters for walkies. I never hook a leash to the flat collar, even though it has a heavy duty split ring on the tags. Now I need a really good recall like you have trained Lance.
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Permalink Reply by Napolean (Joan and Gabby) on
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Great job Lance!!! This happened with Napolean but there was no dog so I'm impressed! haha, the leash thing happened a lot when Napolean was a puppy (I think you can guess why...inexperience). I'm glad your warning everyone though; it could be a fatal accident. I'm glad Lance chose to come back though ;)
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Permalink Reply by Karen Dadisman on
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Rosie too has escaped her collar trying to get away from a scary dog bolting from his garage. She slipped her collar and ran a block away in fright!! Lucky no traffic just then. She did come back but made a pretty big circle to get there. We now walk in a martingale collar with both Rosie and Rocky. This is especially important when we travel We do leave their regular collars on with their ID tags on them and just put the martingale collars on, while leaving the regular collars on, when we make pit stops.
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Permalink Reply by Cindi & Twinkie on
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Good boy Lance! I have had that same bad hook-up with our (now passed) dog Hoover while taking him to the vet on a busy road once. I am about died! Luckily this was a good test for your training. Everyone passed with flying colors!
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Permalink Reply by Suzi, Zeus & Valentine on
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so glad Lance is ok - this same thing happened to me with Zeus he was all of a sudden free and made me panic too:( good boy Lance for listening to you :)
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Permalink Reply by Worthington Natalia on
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Good training of recall. Good job, Lance!
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Permalink Reply by Anna Morelli on
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Glad for the happy ending. You're not the only one to have accidentally clipped the leash into the tag ring. One does learn by one's mistakes... that's how I know :-D
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