Do you keep your dog leashed

If you can't be watching your dog, it should be in the house. A dog should never be tied outside. Anything can happen to him. I would never dog sit for anyone who ties their dog outside as a daily method of containment. A leash is only for walking. I don't like chain collars. Also called choke collars. Apart from the dog being able to slip out, they can case damage to the trachea if used improperly. Very few people are skilled in the proper technique to use them. They are dangerous and not the best tool for controlling a dog. A prong collar is much better for training a dog not to bolt. The prongs don't hurt. The prongs simulate the mother dog biting the neck. It's a great way to train some large powerful dogs to walk properly. Of course not for every dog or every person. For smaller untrained and trained dogs I like a body harness. It gives me control and the dog can't get hurt. I'm in the precess of training a 25 pound dog with one. I like the Halti for larger dogs. It takes a few times for them to get used to it, but what a joy to walk with them once they do. My new Dal was horrid on the leash when I got her. After 4 or 5 times with the Halti, she's a different dog. I wish I had a Gentle Leader, but my vet didn't sell them 10 years ago when I bought the Haltis. I think they are available now, but I'll use what I have.

I completely agree with you. I hate this too how people somethings think that their dog won't do anything. The only fact is that sometimes it's not the fact that their dog won't do anything that is the problem. I often go for a walk with my dog in the park and in this park it is forbidden to let your dog of the leash. She is really sweet and not agressive, only when dogs come to her to play she doesn't like it and if the dog insists, she might try to bite only so the other dog would let her alone. This is one of the reasons I never go to the dogpark with her. In the park where we do go often for a walk, there are also a lot of people who come there with there dog unleashed, eventhough it's forbitten there. Then when these dogs see my dog they are happy and want to come running to her to greet her. Then I have to pull my dog away because she panics then and wants to attact only because she feels like they are attacing her. Then the other owner says to me "its ok, she/he wont do anything, then I always have to try to explain them that I trust them, but it's my dog I don't trust at that moment.

For me not because many dog are spoiled I don't like that in my pit I feel easy to them as long as they are.

I always had small dogs. They are not problem. I kept them leashed when some other big dog was around but most time i let them free to run in front of my building. . I leashed them when we were for a walk in the town or when i go to the grocery. When you have a female you have to keep her away from "trouble" :)

I have a labrador retriever and I need to keep her on a leash because she would get intimidated with other dogs trying to bark at her and provoke her. And these other dogs are a little smaller and when my lab gets angry she would really grab the other dog by the neck and she almost don't want to let go. I would grab her away when she feels threatened. And I hardly even take her out because of that. Because I am afraid she would accidentally kill other dogs. I wonder why these other dogs would just come near her and start barking when my dog doesn't do anything when I take her out but sniff just about anywhere.

We keep our dogs in the garden and the fence is high enough that they can't go anywhere. We don't leash them at home. But when we go out we sure put them on leash. We think that putting them on leash makes them more aggressive.

I would always keep my dog on its lead if I had one, because I now know what it feels like to have other people's dogs running up to them when they don't want them to. My Mother has a serious allergy to dogs and even one jumping up at her can cause her to not be able to breathe properly for a couple of hours. If she wants to walk through the park, she has to do everything that she possibly can in order to avoid the dogs because if she came into contact with one it would mean that she couldn't breathe for the rest of the day.