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Biting on leash

3K views 21 replies 16 participants last post by  PaulDawg 
So many familiar sounding stories, I guess all golden's have the same instincts and behaviours. Our wee man Barra also likes to mouth his lead and we have found success with using bitter apple spray, but living in Scotland in the wettest summer in 100 years it doesn't last long before it is washed off.

The other technique that I have found to work is to stop as soon as he takes the lead in his mouth, give him the sit command and then reward that with a treat. At the start of his walk it takes repeated stops and sits before he stops biting the lead, afterwards it is only when we turn back into the street to go home that he picks it up again and likes to direct me back to the house.
 
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