Originally Posted by Irish Setter Gal

I think L4L was applying this to the USA, personally if I lived in the USA I'd keep my dogs in a back yard or have a gate on the front door, which incidentally we have on ours since we have 'no' front garden to speak of (God bless UK planning regulations with pack em in and build em cheap)

Originally Posted by arlow

Another quote from the above mentioned article (emphasis mine):

Keep walking until the leash is as loose as it can be, always correcting the dog if it strays. Again, make sure to praise the dog when it behaves correctly.

Originally Posted by Irish Setter Gal

Oops - Have learnt not to read sub headers since the overwhelming majority across the forum are just a re-post of the original

Originally Posted by leashedForLife

please note i specifically said, "how NOT to teach the dog..." in the prior subject-line.