Will your dog walk with others?

[Dekka]

Will your dog go on a walk with someone that is not you happily/willingly?

I got thinking about this yesterday. Darien (my son, who is now 14! :yikes took Dekka out for a walk. He doesn't normally and again we remembered why. He has to practically drag her along till they start heading home then she tries to drag him home.

She will walk with Laura (Maf) after being dragged a bit. But she still doesn't like to leave the apt without me. Even if I am not home she still doesn't want to go with others. You know I might arrive home whilst she is out walking ...

If I take her she will walks happily and will go for longer than I can!

So how are your dogs if others take them out for a walk?

 

[Snark]

No one's really tried to walk Mick or Murph, other than me. At best, Sis will tag along but she doesn't like walking dogs on leash, probably because they think it's fun to wrap her up in the leashes if at all possible.

Riley tends to worry about whoever isn't there (and should be). He prefers walking with me and his bodyguard (Sis) - and, yes, he's likes occasionally ducking behind her to wrap her up in the leash.

 

[Assamiea]

Baxter will go with anyone, anytime. All you have to do is pick up his leash and he'll come running.

With Rocky it really depends. If I'm not home then he'll go quite happily, if I'm home you basically have to drag him and he'll keep trying to turn back.

 

[Southpaw]

As long as it's someone they know, they're fine with it. Granted it's not like anyone other than me tries to walk them anyway lol.

 

[Shakou]

Charlotte will in a heart beat. Ma'ii will, but is a little reluctant/more aware he's being taken by a stranger.

 

[Elrohwen]

It depends. Watson is generally not ok with someone taking his leash and leading him away from me if I'm standing right there. He's ok at the vet because it happens so fast and he's through a door before he realizes I'm not following.

He used to have issues with people walking him away from the house and he wouldn't go for walks with my parents if myself or my husband wasn't with him. He's fine with that now. I also suspect he'd be better if we weren't home, like if a dog walker came over.

He'll go home with anyone if his people aren't there, but if we are, he doesn't want to be separated. Probably pretty normal.

 

[BostonBanker]

Meg will not leave the yard with anyone but me or my mother. Not even with my father, who she has lived with for eight years. And she won't gowith my mother if I am home.

Gusto will go with anyone. He just likes Going.

 

[Locke]

Smiley will walk with my SO, and my parents no problem. He has never had a stranger walk him, so I'm not sure. He probably wouldn't mind as long as I wasn't around.

 

[Fran101]

He WILL walk with anyone, happily.

Now, will he walk politely? That's a different story :rofl1:

If you make it clear you aren't going to accept pulling, he will stop.
If you are an obvious sucker for his cute, he will drag you around town happily.

He's had walkers, strangers, vets, friends, boyfriends...he is happy to party.

 

[sassafras]

Squash and Maisy, absolutely.

Pip, maybe. Depends on the context and whether he knows them or not.

 

[*blackrose]

It all depends.

Will he go for a walk with someone when in our own home? Heck yes. LOL He gets SOOOOO excited when he sees his collar and leash being grabbed, it really doesn't matter who is attached to the other end. He'll go out with me, Michael, any of our friends (although we only trust one to handle him appropriately), and I'm sure if the petsitter who's watching him right now were to try to take him out, he'd go out with gusto.

In public? That is very much so another matter. I can't hand his leash off to someone and expect them to be able to take him anywhere without me in sight without him throwing a huge fit. When Michael and I are out together, he wants to keep both of us in his sight at all times and doesn't like it when we go separate ways. He has less problems leaving Michael behind than he does me.
Unless, of course, they take him and are actively working with him re: obedience. If he knows he is working (thus rewards and treats are forthcoming), he will work for anyone who knows what they're doing and keeps him engaged. I remember passing him off to the assistant obedience instructor in the basic obedience class I took to walk the Rally course and he was just like, "Mom's leaving? Who's mom? You have cheese, nice lady, and are telling me to sit/give attention. So sit and give attention I shall for you, oh nice Cheese Lady." But people who take him and expect to just walk off with him would be in for a loud surprise.

Cynder will go out with anyone, although she prefers Michael or I. If someone were to try to take her for a walk, I'm sure she'd be happy to go, but once she was outside with them she'd probably be worried. She'd still go, she'd just be like, "Okay. Dad isn't here. Mom isn't here. Um. Okay." People can take her from either one of us and walk away with her, she just looks worried the entire time.

 

[Sekah]

Cohen will go with whoever has food, or whoever happens to have the other end of the leash. She may be less well behaved, but she'll happily go.

Megatron will do anything for food. I'm not too sure what she'd do in its absence. I think she'd walk for anyone.

 

[Slick]

He will go on a walk with anybody, but he also WILL use that opportunity to be naughty.

Leo pulls a little on the leash even for me. But he pulls like an absolute hooligan for anybody else. He will be very interested in other dogs with me (staring, whining, maybe some grumbling). He will act like a complete jerkwad when encountering other dogs with anybody else (throwing himself at the end of his leash, barking his fool head off, etc.)

He doesn't seem to mind the going away from me part, and has somehow figured out that he can get away with so much more with most other people.

 

[Beanie]

My mom is able to take the dogs outside to potty at agility trials for me, but she's never tried to take them on an actual walk or anything like that. We don't do little walkies in the neighbourhood really, we go to the forest for hikes, so it's never really come up.

Also I just wouldn't want anybody else to take them for a walk LOL. I think I would trust my sister to walk Auggie. Probably Pepper as well. I don't trust anybody with Payton...

 

[k9krazee]

I'm sure the boys would go with anyone willing -- though I can't say that I've tried!

 

[xpaeanx]

You know I can't say I've ever tried.

I know when the SO takes the leashes for whatever reason they don't behave as well as they do with me. They will often pull just so that they can still be/walk next to me or if I'm behind they'll lag and trip the person to stay next to me. I've also had the SO hold the leashes when we're out so I can use the restroom and he's said they didn't care to do anything but watch the door and wait for me... but I've been in situations where I have no treats on me and someone else does and they are happily following the treats around. How that would evolve if I walked away? Or if I wasn't home and someone with treats came to take them for a walk? I have no idea.

 

[Shai]

They all walk happily with hubby sans me; beyond that I don't know.

I doubt it would be a problem though especially if I verbally released them to go. Mira would be the most likely to flip them the bird, but she was fine walking with her breeders all summer while on maternity leave.

 

[BostonBullMama]

Toby doesn't really care.. he's been walked by in-laws and I've passed him off to friends now and then when I need to do something quickly or run inside.

That said - he does display weariness if everybody is walking together and then someone leaves the group.

For example; Last week, my fiance and I took Toby and the kids down a trail behind the house. On our way back, we came across a custom built kitty-litter hideaway box with 3 cut outs for 3 boxes to fit inside.
This is something we'd actually been looking into building or purchasing in the near future so I told my fiance to run home and get the car and that I'd wait there for him to come around with it. When he left, Toby started whimpering and crying. When he returned, Toby was noticeably relieved and started with bum wiggles and happy squirms.

The box didn't fit in the trunk, so I told my fiance to just leave it there then and that it didn't matter. He got back in the truck and drove home. This time, I had to actually walk - so I did, I started walking and Toby was going nuts. Spinning, crying, zig-zagging, barking, trying to pull behind me, running up ahead and crying, running back and barking - he was very noticeably upset, and I had to walk half a block with him doing this + pulling a wagon behind me with the kids in it. When my fiance was in sight again (he walked the path to meet us) Toby calmed down and was fine.

Toby doesn't normally give a hoot about the hubby. He doesn't follow him through the house, occasionally greets him at the door when he comes home.. doesn't whine when he leaves for work in the morning, doesn't care if we go for walks without him, doesn't even let my fiance put his harness or collar or coat or even leash on him... but in this case, he had left the group, and Toby was NOT okay with that.

 

[Elrohwen]

Funny story I just remembered. Watson and I used to go to a dog friendly wine store once or twice a month. He loved going there and loved all of the employees who fawned over him and gave him treats. One day they offered to dogsit so I could shop for wine dog-free. I handed off the leash and Watson was super excited to hang with the employees until I got about 15ft away and he started screaming. :rofl1: Apparently he just pretends that he would go home with anyone, but he's actually a giant baby.

 

[maxfox426]

Anyone. Anytime. Sometimes he might even look back. Sometimes.

Seriously, though. That's the trick to make him chill out at the vet. Give the vet the leash, and he's like, "Ohhhhh, I guess you're my family now. BYE OTHER LADY."