Recently we've had a great challenge with Kramer. If we take him for a "walk" we end up carrying him. We are thankful that he is a small dog, but even then it is quite a weight to carry. We don't know why, but he walks for a short distance and stops. Stops dead in his tracks. He'll stand and survey the scenery and just refuse to budge. We've tried "encouraging" him, calling him, walking away from him, enticing him with a dog bikkie - in short we've tried everything we can think of.
The result is that we seldom take him for a walk. It's all too hard. He's keen to go - but would rather ride in the car. When he knows it is a WALK he loses interest and just stops. Dragging/pulling on his lead doesn't work either.
On Thursday we took him for a walk on the waterfront, and as usual - abot 10 feet from the car he stopped. As it turns out MM was behind and just pushed him with his foot. Pushed, not kicked, of course. Let's be clear about that. We've never set out to help him.
And it worked. He just started trotting along again. Again some distance later he stopped again. We are happy to let him rest a bit, but again, a light push from behind and he sets off again.
Have we found the solution to our problem? We've called it "kick starting" - and it works, or it did on Thursday.
We'll test it again, next time. Perhaps today.
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