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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is the barking going to be helped by a leash?[/quote]

The leash allows the owners to both create a distance between their animals.  Leashed dogs often do not feel comfortable having a strange dog (even a wonderful well behaved dog) walking into "their" space like that.

Having one dog on a leash, the other dog off the leash always puts the leashed dog at a disadvantage because their freedom of movement is restricted.  [/quote]

What you say is true, however one of my leashed dogs barks quite a bit when encountering any other dog -- on a leash.   Barking is breed specific.  And it's also a bad habit.  I rescued my second beagle in July and we are working on barking right now with an intensive program of training and reinforcement.  I think he was neglected before and as you may know, beagles are quite vocal to begin with so there's only so much that can be done about beagle vocalization.  I'm not seeing that leashing can prevent each and every problem described in this post.  It's not a panacea for all dog problems.

People on DCUM like to blame unleashed dogs for everything.  Note that I am not advocating unleashing dogs, but there are limits to what mere leashing accomplishes.[/quote]

I hate the leash reactive rational.  If the lunging snarling pit wasn't on a leash the thing would be ripping flesh off me or my dog .[/quote]

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