Wheelchair Dog Walking!

If you want your dog to walk with you you first need to make sure she is comfortable walking beside your chair inside your house. Once she is comfortable with that put her lease on her collar and drop it on the floor beside your chair so it doesn't get run over. Then call her to walk beside you with the lease dragging. She will warm up to the idea soon and walk with the lease dragging. Next step is do it again and again. Once she follows without hesitation try it holding onto the lease. Once she will freely walk on the lease with you you can move the activity outside.

If you want her to be able to pull without hurting herself look into a pulling harness so the pressure is not on her throat. It should pull on her breast bone. That will trigger her natural instinct to pull.

Hi,

I'm the new kid here. My spine is toasted and have been in a power chair for almost 6 years. I'm glad to see this post, perhaps I can help with the dog walking delema. I walk and run my Rat Terrier every day. He wears a a harness, and is attached to me by 2-6 foot leashes. I make 1 leash onto a large loop, hook that to the other lead and put the loop over my head and under the shoulder, like you would wear a cross body bag. I still have control of him by holding the lead in my empty hand. We started out slow at first, but in no time we were going down hills at high speed. Once he got the idea this could be fun, and he could run it was easy. I'll post photos if you want, or if you have questions I'm glad to help.
Glad to meet y'all,
Joy

Welcome to the forum joy!

My dog is not quite big enough to pull me around but he is actually really strong! I remember going out for a wheel and I had his leash tied to my chair so he wouldn't run too far but he still managed to pull me. It was probably the excitement of going out for a walk that gave him his strength.

Ouch, that must have hurt ibwheelin2

It's too bad that you had to give him away though. Are you considering getting another dog?