Dog lead injuries.

hand and wrist injuries

I blame in on dogging

People who do not know how to walk a dog, probably are not intelligent enought to survive anyway.

It always makes me smile to see a dog taking its owner for a walk.

With the dog strangling itself, and the owner puffing and blowing trying to restrain the mutt.

It's a common problem when you get a dog from a sanctuary though. In fact, it's probably part of the reason the dog ended up there - that the owner gormlessly let it take the p1ss when it was a pup.

I got a pair of cross-breds back in 1992 who were seven and nine years old, and had been at an animal sanctuary for six months. They pulled like stink, and it took a long, long time to get both to walk on a loose rein together. When one pulled, the other kept taking it as a cue to do likewise. Got there in the end (I think they just got too old to pull eventually).

Some dogs pull because they don't don't go out enough.
Then when they do go out they're so excited they just want to get on with it.
Especially if they're never let off the lead.

Many dog problems can be solved by giving them plenty of exercise - off the lead.

But as you say screaming, if you let them take the p!ss you're never going to control them.

Surprised to hear about this. Most dog walking these days consists of standing still checking a mobile phone or chatting with another dog walker while occasionally sling shotting a tennis ball for the dog to chase and return.

It probably helps with the injuries that a lot of dogs now don't have collars but have a carefully designed "lead pulling force maximiser harness" round the shoulders, possibly influenced by the designs for heavy draught horses.

Extending leads don't help either. They just teach the dog that if it pulls it can go where it wants.

Being the proud guardian of a couple of Chihuahuas, I don't have this problem.

"lead pulling force maximiser harness"

Incredibly some dog owners think these are better for some reason than a basic collar especially for a pulling dog which defies all logic.
One person I know said she uses one because she doesn't want the dog to injure its neck.
No doubt his idea was put about by the manufacturers of dog harnesses.

Some dogs have small heads where the collar could slip off unless it's on tight and that's bad for the dog 24 hours a day, so there's a case for one there.

But if the harness isn't a good fit, a clever dog can slip out of that as well by backing off against a tight lead.