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It doesn't help that some dogs get more anxious on the lead than off. Ours had the worst lead anxiety in the period before we finally let him off. We did have a few times when he left the park and crossed a road in the first year, which is a worry when it happens.
If you are around the park at the same time every day it helps to see who your dog likes and try and hang with them. Then drop the lead for a while and see what happens, ours was much happier but he likes to give some dogs a very very wide berth which is why the lead was frightening him.
A lurcher is going to run a fair distance usually, the ones I see in our local park are no problem but often a big distance from their owners.
Airhead
OK So our lurcher Rosa is getting a bit antsy around other dogs ... ones that run at us fast and want to play, mostly. happened with Professor Green's dog in Brockley the other day. His was going a bit bonkers, he's a young boxer/lanky bulldog thing. She seems kind of scared.
We're still walking always on the lead because we're just working on recall at the moment. She's a sighthound, and looks like she might be quite fast, so we're pretty scared of losing her if a fox or rabbit attracts her away from us when recall is not attractive to her. There's a small park near us with gates where we're starting this training. Still on a house line at the mo. Will let her off once the house line stuff feels really bedded in.
Any advice on how to keep her calm whilst on the lead when other dogs are not? At the mo we've found just walking off at 90 degrees to the route we were on helps diffuse things, with plenty of reassurance to Rosa.