How to take the lead in dog walking – and earn unconditional love in return
by Genevieve Fox from Science | The Guardian on (#5NB2P)
Enhance your pooch's wellbeing and your own by making daily walks an interactive, quality experience
Pepper meets Mr Binks for the first time and bottom-sniffs the diminutive pooch by way of greeting. As ever, I look away. But Mr Binks's owner, dog behaviourist Anna Webb, says: Ah, that's nice, they're introducing themselves."
Pepper, my miniature schnauzer, trots off ahead down the pavement, followed by me, holding her lead, and then Mr Binks and the glamorous Anna. The two of them are walking side by side.
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