Lessons from Maggie: The Joy of Submitting to a Gentle Leader

(To honor my sweet girl Maggie’s memory I am posting a chapter from Stay: Lessons My Dogs Taught Me about Life, Loss, and Grace. I hope you enjoy my canine mentorship!) Chapter 19 – Gently Leading Today Maggie took me out for a drag. I would prefer that her idea of a walk would more closely resemble mine, so we have some work to do. I either need to find a way to train her not to pull me around the neighborhood or rescue ten more Labs just like her and enter the Iditarod dog sled race. I don’t particularly care for freezing to death, so I think I will work on training Maggie to walk instead of pull. Maggie has definitely made progress learning her commands, but I knew that she needed some extra help on the walking front. A tip from our trainer led us to a device called the Gentle Leader. He demonstrated how it works and

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