A woman had a secret that only her dog knew. My new client cried as she admitted that she no longer walked her one-year-old chocolate Labrador, Didion. “He pulls so much it hurts and I get, well, frustrated,” she said, “this is not what I wanted for my dog but I don’t know what to do”.

Tracy is not alone in her secret. I know other dog owners who do not walk their dogs. Or if they do walk their dogs, it is short and they hate every minute of it. While some people prefer to bring their Energizer bunny of a dog to an off-leash dog park (that’s another article), most say their vision of sharing their life with a dog includes walking together. Nicely, on leash.

“What if we introduced a ......