I want to get a dog but I have to work, how does everyone on broadway market do it ?

Great photo!

although our little monster is barely 12 weeks old, getting her to go out on the leash is proving to be a bit of an ordeal. sometimes she's up for it, most times she literally walks backwards in the direction of the house with a look of abject terror on her face.

is this normal?

Tried treats?

Is there another dog about she can smell.
At 3 months you don't need to walk much, so focus on rewarding with treats, to create positive association.

yeah we've tried treats and it works moderately well - but that requires 2 of us to walk her. Mrs goes ahead, waggles treats, she galumphs over, rinse, repeat. and yeah, there's shitloads of other dogs about - we live next to a park.

i've gotten her to sit and stay a bit with treats so we're working on it.

reckon i just need to be a bit patienterer.

aaaah.

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I can't say I had this issue. The only one I faced was the wanker didn't want to get in the lift. So every time we went out for a week I did treats. He now runs head first into the lift, couldn't get in there fast enough.

Just keep at it. She's only little. Sure you could just give treats yourself and verbal praise.

She will soon work out that walks are fun and instantly transition into all paws scrabbling frantically for the door the instant you pick up the lead. In a month or two both of you will have forgotten the scared baby phase, be patient and encouraging.

yarp. to be honest, it's probably me who's the problem, need to let her be, we'll get there.

You just did! Treats aren't necessary, the walk and your company will be enough, honest.

I used to have to carry him for the first few hundred yards, after which he'd decide that actually walking was fine.

#embarrasingdad

Every photo of benny from when he first arrived (13 weeks) taken outside he's either laying on the floor or refusing to move. was just a matter of time. though became a little tougher once he learned which direction home was on each of the surrounding roads. if i needed him to walk properly to get somewhere i found picking him up and walking him 100m outside his "home zone" and then putting him down he'd walk happy as larry.

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actually now that you mention it - we drove her down to Dulwich Park on saturday and she was romping about like she owned the place for the most part. top shout.

We had heaps of trouble with this too, Phoebe would sit down refuse to move and cry looking back at the house.

I would carry her away from the house and then we'd have a walk back and that seemed to work

Yeah we had to carry ours to and from for a good while. But also her walking sucked so it was just easier to carry.

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Exactly the same with Mars, it doesn’t last long

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i do worry that the carrying becomes a habit and it that's something you have to eventually un-learn...

i'll just carry her.

New favourite thing. He didn’t know what to do with it for a while when he first got it - just wandered round with it like this, looking happy. Finally realised he can chew it. Noisily. While regularly dropping it clattering to the floor.

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I did carry piri some times if he sat down and wouldn't move. Like upside-down id get 20 metres and he'd throw a tantrum untill i put him down and let him walk.

he's waiting for you to fill it with mead.

Crumpet's favourite toy is an antler. Rarely used for its intended purpose as something to chew on, far more frequently thrown/kicked around the house, making as much noise as possible on our wooden floors and getting stuck under the sofa every 2 minutes or so, resulting in more noise from her making a strange honking sound until we retrieve it.

New house mate is here.
Bosco the Border Terrier

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Face is def a Bosco. Body- not yet.
Cute as hell. Welcome to the nights of hurt.

Have you spend time working on your annunciation of Bosco? Has to be said with American twang surely.
Cutr!

Correctly pronounced 'little fucker' generally proceded by 'get here you'.....

Our pooch does that. Give him a treat that’s a bit big and he carries it around for days. He might hide it, then immediately go and retrieve it, then go back to carrying it around again. Then eventually he will eat it