There are some days where she just refuses to walk and either dead-weights on her side or just sits and won’t budge. The only way to get her to move is say “let’s go home”. What dog doesn’t enjoy a walk!?
Ugh, God, mine does this in the summer. Refuses to accept shorter walks in the heat, but then drops and refuses to walk home because she's tired and hot. I literally have to carry her multiple blocks home.
Both her and the one before her do and would also deadweight it in the middle of the road 🤦♀️😅
Sometimes they can also get bored of walking in the same neighborhood 3 times a day, does she go to the park or forrest sometimes?
I also ask my dog where she wants to go, and then she'll go her prefferred way, with this a little guidance from me of course, but letting your dog decide sometimes helps a little bit.
Furthermore, sometimes I grab her favorite ball so she can carry it while walking. I guess it makes it a little more enjoyable for her.
Yeah, I actually started taking her to random different subdivisions on my lunch break and she is way more willing to just walk. I think that is what it is.
Ours is the same. We have to go "carsies" instead of "walkies" to take her to different walk starting points. She's usually fine then. Sometimes depends on who she's walking with too, if our daughter or sons girlfriend go on the walks she'll trot along happily wherever they want to go.. she has her favorites 😂🤦
The trick is go in the direction she wants. My Golden does this all the time too. She either loves the spot, or wants to go a diferrent direction. Sometimes I sit down with her, sometimes I go the direction she wants and lead her back my direction.
Or if my time is really limited, I can trick her to into continuing to walk in the direction I want her to by bringing her favorite squeak toy with me so it distracts her from her realizing she wants to go a different direction.
Odie is almost an exact look a like to my former golden. She used to lie down like that occasionally. I miss her even though I have a great yorkie now.
My GR has always done this since he was a puppy. Every single walk. With my dog bc he wants to go where he wants to go. And where he wants to go there is some sort of ground trash snack he wants
Because she knows you won't yank her. I'd take it as being comfortable enough to lay down and not be dragged. My malinois does the same to me, she's also like 13 tho. I understand the frustration of having to pick my baby girl up and walk a little. 😂😂
I've only had one but she never did. Walks were exciting and she never wanted to go home when the walk was over. She did tug on her leash wanting to go faster than I walked. My poor girl got the wrong human. I think she wanted to belong to someone on a bicycle, or at least a runner.
I've found that acting like youre the human and they arent doesnt work as well as getting down on your knees and having a serious conversation with them.
Acknowledge their feelings and then say this is what we have to do.
Yes ultimately they are big toddlers (who can pull ducks out of ponds and do 30 mile hikes and clear your yard of animals and alert you if a car pulls in).
My 8 year old brother once took our golden out for a walk without telling anyone. Someone finally noticed they were missing, and we found them about 2 blocks from our house.
My dog was in exactly the position yours is in, and my brother was in tears, thinking he was either never going to be able to come back home, or would have to abandon our dog forever.
Our dog was in dead weight mode and required me carrying his hind legs and my dad carrying his front legs to get him home. It was his favorite activity after about age 4. Sometimes he would respond to a cheese lure, but even that stopped working after a while.
I learned with my golden i had to use AllTrails and Google maps to find every park and find places we could sneak off to so he could get his time in.
Sometimes hes down for walk 1,001 around the neighborhood but if thats all hes been getting hes like pfffft this again? Protest.
Maintenance walks are in the neighborhood but his two big walks of the day are like a 6-10 minute drive away and he gets to go wild. Plenty of water and mud and stink for him to get after.
Hahaha it’s a Goldie thing, they all do it. At some point they tried it once and they got lots of attention from the human, so they do it again. Mine does it when we’re going back to the car because she doesn’t want the fun to end
Ours does it any time we go to the car. Sits down and refuses to move. She used to do it as we got closer to the vehicle, now she’ll be at the top of the driveway. So we pick her 65 lb self up and carry her to the car.
Omg mine is opposite. If we stray from any of her Luna-appproved routes she will park it and move for NOTHINGGGGG 😂😤 All non-approved routes are longer and her lazy self knows it
If it’s a recent thing or out of character maybe check temperature or look for signs of pain while walking.
But yeah it’s pretty common, sometimes they don’t feel like it. Mine knows that pulling doesn’t get him anywhere so he sits and looks in the direction he wants to go and refuses to move.
THIS. I don't know how there's only one comment discussing the fact that this dog could be in pain, and everyone is calling it cute. This could be a variety of issues that are related to discomfort to downright pain!
My childhood golden started doing this around ~ 7 years old but loved walking her whole life. So we went to the vet for check ups, blood work, etc. & everything seemed okay. She passed away sadly about a year later and only then we learned she had an enlarged heart. 🥺
My golden sits still and won’t even move. Similar to this dog laying on her side. Mine does this because she hates the leash. She goes completely crazy with energy when I take the leash off.
Goldens can be extremely stubborn like this and go full on deadweight once they decide the walk is done. Try to get in tune with your dog's mood to identify when she might do this. For example, I found that when my dog was younger, he was more likely to do this if he got massively overstimulated on a walk or if he overexerted himself. Taking a few shorter walks may help.
I'm sorry. I completely understand how frustrating this can be. FWIW, my golden has never been a big walker. He's older now and he's perfectly happy with just doing a sniffy walk around the block.
Standard golden feature lol.
Needless to say mine does it too.
Speculated reasons
1. Wants to go another direction
2. Too hot
3. Wants to go home
4. Wants to stay to play/smell
5. Unlikely but paws hurt (other signs obviously)
Goldens are so stubborn. My dude hates being on the leash. He loves going for a walk if he doesn't have to be on the leash, but I don't trust other dogs, so that rarely happens. He literally runs from me when he sees the leash.
She’s clearly had a long, hard day of walking, eating, napping, thinking about food, patrolling the yard from the window, moving from one comfortable place to another, and looking beautiful. A dog’s life is extremely difficult and we humans will never understand.
Direction request denied. You are not going the way they want to go. Choose another route option.
She might genuinely be done with the walk, or there’s more going on. Could be pain (arthritis, joint, hip pain) or anxiety (too busy/too overwhelmed) related.
My dog is anxious and refuses to go outside because of fear. We go out very early or very late or drive out of town for decompression walks. Last year she started to refuse to walk, and it was due to arthritic changes (supplements and shots at the vet for the condition helped) + shorter/slower walk. Would highly recommend checking w/ a vet re pain.
Great answer! I totally identify with it. My Golden will never turn down a walk but does this when he sees something he wants to go to and I'm going another way, or I've changed our normal route. He'll do it in the garden if I want him to come in when he's barking. Yep, it's him wanting his own way. Prince Doggo.
Thank you. I think it is wonderful when they feel confident to communicate their preferences, count on being given some locus of control over parts of their life, especially when it comes to walk preferences. Makes me super happy when I ask my dogs which way and they look in the direction they want to go. I do occasionally get it wrong and there’s a dramatic halt.
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Regardless, I have to comment on the facial expression in pic 1. Classic "Golden one brain cell face". LOL. So derpy but so cute!
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Mine definitely is. Sometimes when she protests it’s because she wants to go a different way, so I’ll usually indulge her. She also bites the leash still (at almost 8 years) when she doesn’t get her way, e.g. we won’t let her pick up a moldy tennis ball, or greet a passing dog.
Treats help. And I’ve been working on ‘let’s go’ with a gentle tug of the leash. If she complies I reward it.
Maple does this when she is done walking , I am the “Spare Human” and she wants to get back to my wife who is her “Emotional Support Human” as fast as possible. She will do her business and then turn around and head straight back to the house. At this point I don’t even put a leash on her for 90% of our walks. But that took a long time and training to get there.
Ohhhh. I strongly think mine had a built in GPS system and she knew that I was heading home. And nope. Not going home.
😂😂 I had to wait and eventually walked the opposite way and made detour , sometimes with distraction as well. Good thing that mine could be distracted easily. Then, we headed home.
My dog likes to stop and sniff or roll around in the grass. My walks basically have two phases, leisurely stroll with plenty of sniffing and rolling around then after she poops we get to business and put in some distance at a good pace.
If it is too hot out my dog will try to cut the walk short by taking turns to head back towards the house.
They ALL do this lmao. One time the UPS guy had to help me lure my Golden with a treat after watching us battle. I know as soon as he starts sinking to the ground that I’m toast.
Because this is what they do. When dog is done, dog is done. Unless treats are involved.
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This! Dogs only do what works for them - that’s why it’s SO important to never allow behavior that you do not want. It’s much easier to create the rules & enforce them than it is to undue behavior. Pack leaders must set the rules - not the dog. It’s not being mean, it’s just letting the dog know your expectations & rewarding them when they comply.
oh don't worry it is a typical behaviour, same with laying on back and doing what i call a "dead possum" pose with in case of my dog means he wants attention, tho could also be issue with collar maybe being uncomfortable does she scratch ground when laying, if yes it could mean said collar is uncomfortable, my dog did it with his harness when younger
Mine stops and lays down for a little break. He won't budge. Takes me saying "cookie" 9x's before he moves it along. He's very stubborn and spoiled! They have us trained well!
I love it when mine does this. She normally does it at the end of a walk and refuses to come home. As she’s aged I’ve found I can usually get her to move again more quickly than in her younger days, but it no walk would be complete without her signaling her protest at it coming to an end.
Mine does this when she wants to go outside and sunbathe and when I call her into the house she deadweights on her side and I have to pull her by the collar to go into the house 💀 she doesn’t care how hot it is outside lol
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Theyre protesting lol. My childhood dogs werent goldens but they did the same thing. Sometimes they would plonk their ass down and you would have to drag them across the floor to get them up again XDD
I thought that was a Bernese Mountain Dog thing? Mine use to do that as soon as he could see the house. Then I started giving him a small treat as soon as we got home and it all worked out. I carried it in my pocket as a reminder for him to keep going! lol!
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