Leash-Waltzing is not a sport for the infirm or slow-witted. Walking a dog on a leash is, at its best, an art. At its worst, it is bad slapstick. If the dog is a large one, it can require strength. A seventy-pound pup who really wants to go somewhere cannot always be persuaded not to, regardless of how well trained or how much he wants to please you. It requires agility to keep the animal moving in the general direction you’d like him to go and to stay out of his way so he can. You must anticipate his movements, accommodating him when his will and yours are in concert, correcting him when they are not. It is an endless exercise in tuning, tweaking and twiddling.
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