Master THIS before letting your dog off leash | Life-Saving Advice

If you’re not able to recall your dog and switch that prey instinct in them, then you don’t have good enough training.

A lot of the preventable injuries and some of the severe cases are people not having good understanding of training and basic obedience. You need to be able to stop the dog with a recall and recall them back. In the worst type of scenario, we see with dogs running out onto the highway and getting into porcupines. And then a moose or bear turn around and start coming after them. Where are they going to run? They’re running right back to you. Plenty of of encounters where dogs have saved people from both moose and bear. But the opposite is also true, too. If either one of them decide that they are not going to tolerate this little thing barking at them, then they’re going to turn on them. So we get a lot stomped by moose and kicked by moose.

There’s no way that you can predict how it’s going to go down. So keeping your dog under control, can not only prevent your dog from getting injured, but also yourself. Out on the trail, everybody likes to see their dogs off leash and running and moving. But as a professional reminder, we see a lot of dog fight injuries because there’s someone that has their dog on a leash and someone has their dog off leash, and they have no control over their dog and their dog attacks another dog.

Be mindful of other people and that there’s a time and place to do the off leash thing.
But if you don’t have any control over your dog with verbal commands, then your dog
probably shouldn’t be off leash. I mean, it’s kind of common sense.