Comments on: Teaching A Dog To Heel In Simple Stages

By: Blair Sterling

Blair Sterling — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 17:43:25 +0000

My Tootsie is 5 yrs old and weighs almost as much as these 77-yr old woman. She is an indoor lab. I read all you wrote and will begin training to heal this day. It has become a serious physical problem for me to try to avoid being drug around the yard. Tootsie is intelligent and has learned everything EXCEPT “don’t drag your mom around”. After reading your article it came to me that Tootsie probably thinks dragging me around is fun. Until this year she could go outside and run free in a very extensive back property I had fenced in just for her. Unfortunately, a serious weather thing took out a whole lot of fences. So now, on to training so we can go for long walks. Thank you.

By: Sammie@LabSiteHQ

Sammie@LabSiteHQ — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 11:18:41 +0000

In reply to Norma. Hi Norma, thank you for your lovely feedback - I have passed it on to Pippa.

By: Norma

Norma — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 20:51:36 +0000

In reply to Viv Adams. We only recently discovered your site and books. THANK YOU for being so clear and specific. INCREDIBLY helpful information.

By: Pippa Mattinson

Pippa Mattinson — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 05:30:29 +0000

In reply to John Doe. Thanks for letting us know! That's now fixed :)

By: John Doe

John Doe — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 15:13:26 +0000

Stationery is something that is used to write letters. Things that are not moving are stationary, with two As 🙂

By: Jacob

Jacob — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 17:13:54 +0000

Hi Pippa,
Great article, thank you. We’ve got copies of your Total Recall book and the Happy Puppy Handbook, and they’ve been invaluable resources for our first puppy, a springer spaniel who we’ve had for three weeks. I’ve working on the heel method you recommend above and she’s running behind and to my left consistently with just the heel command. Only issue is that then when taking a step forwards, she’s so impatient for the treat she jumps up at my left hand. She normally gets so excited with the jumping that she then runs off ahead, whether she’s been rewarded or not! Any ideas of what we might try?

By: Bob

Bob — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:09:35 +0000

I think the article is great. I want to try it. But I have two dogs. A lab that pulls all the time and a Shepard that walks behind me … no pulling. How do I train my lab (your article say no distractions)? The dogs always want to be together. So trying to do training 2-3 times a day alone with no distractions is difficult. I want them to walk together so can I train them together? Any suggestions?

By: Holly

Holly — Sun, 01 Mar 2020 01:06:20 +0000

Thank you for this valuable information! I love this site. My lab will love the roasted chicken.

By: Monica Chavez

Monica Chavez — Thu, 05 Jul 2018 21:40:06 +0000

It’s interesting how you point out that heel positions vary depending on the role of the dog. My husband and I just got a new dog, and we’re not sure how to train him effectively. I think it would be really helpful if we took him to be professionally trained, since we don’t know all the different types of heel positions.

By: CHRISTINE SMYLIE

CHRISTINE SMYLIE — Wed, 11 Apr 2018 14:19:06 +0000

Is there anyway that I can print the tips to helping my dog to walk to heel; without printing all the adverts too please?