[nagdu] {Spam?} A shocking experience

[Tami Jarvis]

Lisa,

Wow! How scary! When Mitzi was a pup I quickly discovered that 
flexi-leads and blindness do not work at all where there are bushes. I 
spent more time untangling the stupid thing, although things never got 
as scary as what you experienced. Ugh!

One would think the trainer would consider the bushes in picking a place 
for the dog to be on a flexi-lead, especialy if he is going to be as 
controlling as all that. Glad Taylor is okay and that you were able to 
get him free and home safe! Hang in there!

Tami

On 09/13/2014 08:00 AM, Lisa via nagdu wrote:
> Hello again!
>
> I have to share an experience with you that I had this afternoon when
> walking Taylor.
>
> I took him to a meadow where he relieved himself for the last few days
> and I was quite happy about how he had reduced the pulling on leash and
> how he is already obeying me. So, he got busy and then was sniffing and
> running around on the meadow - I had him on a long leash. I don't know
> the english word for this type of leash. You know, these ones that
> automatically get enrolled when the dog pulls and roll up again we he
> comes back. Suddenly, however, he jumped into the bushes on the left
> side of the meadow. I think he had seen a bird or something else in
> there because normally, he would go there slowly and I could tell him to
> go elsewhere then. But this time he really jumped into them. I called
> him back and he didn't come so I immediately knew something was wrong. I
> pulled the leash but it wouldn't move. So I walked towards the bushes
> and followed the leash. It had knotted around so many different
> branches, going deeper and deeper into the woods. You know, it weren't
> ordinary single bushes but like a real maze. Very high with big branches
> and thorns everywhere. A person could not even get in it. And then
> Taylor started panting so loudly, somewhere in there. I was so scared! I
> told him to sit and disentangled the leash from the branches as fast as
> I could. When I finally reached the dog, I saw that a part of the leash
> that was very close to the collar was rolled around a branch several
> times and already very tightly. I wanted to take the leash off of the
> collar because it was obvious that Taylor had breathing problems. That
> was when I saw that the leash had pulled him to the ground and that it
> was pressed against his chest. Its fastener wasn't even at his neck
> anymore, where the collar normally is, but was pulled far more towards
> the ground. I had brought another, shorter leash in my bag, so I just
> took the leash off him ASAP and the other one on. He immediately stopped
> panting and started breathing normally again. We then went out of that
> horrible maze and straight home. Only when we were back and here, I
> noticed how shocked I was. And I am so angry that this had to happen.
> The trainer showed me this place and told me to go there and nowhere
> else for the first weeks with Taylor. And now the trainer went home for
> the weekend and such a thing happened.
> I will meet a sighted friend later today and go back and fetch the leash
> that's still in the bushes. And then try and find another place for
> Taylor to relieve. I'm sure we'll find one without such a high and big
> bushes next to it. I''m just very shocked. :-(
> I think I did nothing wrong because I took him where the trainer told me
> to and I used the leash the way he showed me.
>
> Lisa
>
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