Week 6: Lead Pulling | MK9Plus
Week 6 · Lead Pulling

The entire loose lead course is below, free. And you probably won't even watch it

This lesson turns everything you've been told about lead pulling on its head. By the end, you'll understand why.

Just realised it's more than a training problem?

Then you already know where this page is going. The course below fixes the walking. MK9Plus fixes the dog doing the pulling.

Don't train the pull. Help the puller

Not just video lessons. 1-to-1 email support directly with me, weekly lives, Zoom calls, and a full system to work out why your dog is so desperate to get out there.

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Everything you just watched is broken down visually below

The lead right now: taut
The lesson, laid out

Lead pulling is just a dog walking faster than you

That's it. That's the whole thing. So the real question is never "how do I stop the pulling". It's "why is my dog in such a hurry?"

👃 That smell 🚗 That car 🐕 That dog ⚡ Too excited 😤 Too frustrated 😰 Too stressed 🏞️ Desperate for the park

Every one of those puts your dog two feet further forward than you. And not one of them is a training problem.

Then someone hands you a tool

"Be firmer. Try a Halti. A slip lead. A prong." This is what happens when people spend months training focus and ignoring the dog.

🔧 What tools actually do

Every one of them is designed to deliver something unpleasant when the dog pulls. So the dog learns one thing: "if I pull, it hurts, so I won't". That is the entire mechanism.

🫥 What that leaves behind

The pulling gets rubbed out. The dog underneath is still there. Still frustrated, still wired, still obsessed. You didn't fix the problem. You silenced the messenger.

"You haven't fixed it. You've just rubbed the behaviour out. The dog is still there." Max Randall · MK9Plus

What the course below actually teaches

Six sessions over three days with a Kelpie who pulled like a train. It works. But look closely at what it trains, and what it doesn't.

✅ What it trains

Focus on the human. Eye contact, because a dog cannot walk in front of you and look at you at the same time. Lead on = follow me. Then proofing it in the real world.

❌ What it can't touch

The wanting. The course never makes your dog less desperate to get out there. If the dog still wants to walk faster than you, you are just managing a tug of war forever.

"Our goal isn't to teach the dog not to pull. It's to have a dog that isn't so damn desperate to get to everything out there." Max Randall · MK9Plus
The goal: slack
🎁 The full course · Free · As promised

Dog not nuts? Dog okay? Then this training is for you

Six sessions over three days. Best for tidier walking, or breeds like herders that genuinely enjoy following instructions. Click a step to watch it.

But if your dog IS nuts right now... you already know the training above is not where to start. Start with the dog.

Zoom out for a second
This was never a lead problem.
It's a dog problem

Pulling is just the first thing you can see slipping. Keep training the pull and ignoring the dog, and watch what the next few months deliver.

PULLING RECALL JUMPING UP SEPARATION DISTRESS DESTRUCTIVE BEHAVIOUR REACTIVITY YOU ARE HERE

This is the natural life cycle of pet dogs: simple, easy to fix hyperactivity and frustration, left alone, developing into high amounts of stress and anxiety one year down the line.

Think yourself lucky. You're here early, while pulling is still the biggest problem you have. Most people only zoom out after four more dominoes have gone down. The bigger picture

Help the dog, and they simply walk slower

Enzo pulled like a flipping train when I rescued him. He never got a millisecond of loose lead training. He got help instead.

"I had a coffee in one hand and both dogs in the other, and they were just fine. No loose lead training. None." Amy · MK9Plus member
🎥 Hear Amy say it herself
The "something kind of cool" from the video

Start with the dog, not the lead

Everything I've made since 2020 lives inside MK9Plus: how diet affects behaviour, breed specific enrichment, getting them sleeping more, getting them off the lead. The full library, plus me alongside you.

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Find why they're desperate

Frustration? Hyperactivity? Stress? The Under the Surface lessons diagnose the dog behind the pulling.

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The whole journey

Diet, enrichment, sleep, outlets, training without tools. The full library, including every future upload.

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1-to-1 email support

Tell me about your dog and your walks, and get a plan for your actual situation.

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Weekly lives + Zoom calls

Rotating Q&A, topic deep dives and Zoom calls. Recordings and notes uploaded.

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The loose lead course, forever

The six steps above stay with you, plus the day your dog is ready for them, they'll actually stick.

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Community rooms

Themed rooms for questions, progress and weekly advice, plus the odd challenge.

Risk removed

The famous "Bare Hands" Guarantee 🧤

Start with a 7 day free trial. Then, after a defined period on the platform, if you would not pick up poo with your bare hands to stay a member, you do not pay a penny. Money back. Plus you can cancel anytime and even pause your membership if life gets busy.

Best case

The dog slows down, the dominoes stay standing, and the lead just hangs there in a lovely lazy J.

Worst case

You tell me this sucks within your guarantee period, get your money back, and keep everything you learned. At no cost.

Either way, the only thing guaranteed not to help is walking away today and going back to what you were doing before.

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Stop training the pull.
Help the dog on the end of the lead.

Join MK9Plus today. Find why your dog is so desperate, fix it at the source, and watch them simply walk slower. All free for 7 days.

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