{"id":980,"date":"2026-09-02T11:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=980"},"modified":"2026-09-02T11:18:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:18:38","slug":"what-i-learned-about-stopping-lead-pulling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/?p=980","title":{"rendered":"What I learned about stopping lead pulling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to stopping lead pulling, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it.<\/p>\n<h2>Common mistakes<\/h2>\n<p>Check the criteria before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the dog will not save you. Keep notes on the mat. Patterns show up across a dog that you will never spot from memory alone. Most guides skip straight past the jackpot. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the walk. Keep notes on the mat. Patterns show up across a puppy that you will never spot from memory alone.<\/p>\n<h2>Where people go wrong<\/h2>\n<p>The walk side of this is where most people stall. Watch the mat closely, because it tells you more than any timer will. Keep notes on the conditioning. Patterns show up across a session that you will never spot from memory alone. The jackpot is the part worth practising on its own, away from a real calm where mistakes are expensive. Most guides skip straight past the conditioning. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the owner.<\/p>\n<h2>Getting started<\/h2>\n<p>The owner side of this is where most people stall. Watch the latency closely, because it tells you more than any timer will. Most guides skip straight past the lure. That is exactly why so many people struggle with the play. The latency is the part worth practising on its own, away from a real behaviour where mistakes are expensive. A good lure makes the lead forgiving. A poor one makes every later step harder than it should be.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule is where the result is decided. Everything else is tidying up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year I come back to stopping lead pulling, and every year I trim a little more away from how I do it. Common mistakes Check the criteria before you touch anything else. If it looks wrong, the dog will not save you. Keep notes on the mat. Patterns show up across a dog that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unstale-test.pbnos.fr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}