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by sands904 on 8/25/2008 at 8:48 PM in Dog Walking

My husband and I used to take our two Chipoos for a walk together, but since his new job has taken him out of town during the week I am left to walk them alone. I started walking them together which proved to be a challenge even though they are little dogs. They are not properly leash trained and love to pull and tangle up the leashes.

To work on this I decided to take them on separate walks so I could give a little one-on-one training for each of them. This has helped but the interesting thing is neither of them pull as much when they are alone. I am not sure why this is except for maybe the fact they are like children and always want what the other one has so maybe they think it is a race and each wants to be in the lead.

They also don't bark at other people or dogs as much when they are out alone. I thought maybe my male Chipoo was barking to protect my female Chipoo which he may be but I find it interesting that she barks less when alone also.

I am going to keep walking them alone for a while longer and hopefully they will learn enough that we can have a nice long, peacefull (not pulling) walk together in the near future.
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by Coachksk on 8/22/2008 at 5:34 AM in First Post

Never in my life had I heard of a JUG! That was the word written in large, bold letters above his cage. He sat watching us very calmly as we walked up and down the aisle looking at all the other puppies in this popular retail pet store on Oahu. Sure the pure breed puppies were cute, the French Boston Terriers were adorable and playing amoung themselves, other fuzzy puppies were sleeping, and this little 6 week old JUG puppy, with big round dark eyes never skipped a beat. He already chose us to take him home... When we asked the Pet Shop Clerk if we could see him, immediatly after entering the play area he crawled into my lap and buried his nose in my arms. He sealed the deal! We brought him home to Maui five months ago, and taking those 15 minutes to chose a puppy before flying home was one of the best decisions of our lives... Kudos to his breeder in Australia. He plays like a Jack and he loves like a Pug !
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