Oscar's leash manners are less than exemplary. Like many dogs he loves to pull and pull. He's pretty much intolerable to take on walks unless he's in his harness and even then he can be difficult to manage. We've been trying to improve his leash behavior for some time to mixed success: if he's pulling on his lead then we try and make him stop by standing still. Of course this makes the walk progress much more slowly but we think our efforts are starting to bear fruit and that Oscar realizes he can't just decide where he wants to go while on leash.
Not to be discouraged, the Professor has recently developed an alternate solution which he employs on occasion. He likes to keep in constant motion so when he feels a tug from behind instead of just stopping and waiting he will run behind his walker in order to relieve the tension in the leash. When he is especially excited (such as when we're on our way to the park for our morning walk) Prof. McLovin basically ends up running around his walker in circles, turning the leash into a confused mess of twists and knots. But because he's not pulling we don't have to stop and wait which means we get to our destination faster as a result of his ridiculous constant motion.
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