Dog trainers HELP!

[Folly's place]

Start in your back yard! And consider a better collar, as a chain slip collar, at least.
The leash should always be loose, no tensing on it at all. When she gets out of position, next to you, pop it sharply, no pulling. It's about timing, and learning new behaviors yourself. Practice doing 'about turns' and turning left and right, fairly fast, without her, before you add her to the mix.
Having her lead you around makes her the actual leader, not a good thing.
Classes! Call some trainers, ask your vet clinic for opinions about trainers, and watch some classes. Then, sign up somewhere, and see how it goes. If the first choice isn't helping, try another.
This is a very solvable problem, but it takes effort.
Mary

 

[Weeg]

Try the 'trick' of walking calmly on lead, much better all around.
Smart dogs pick up behaviors really fast, good and bad, and she's learned that obedience is only for the house, not out in public.
Working with a trainer would be good, especially if it's not a 'cookies first' type of trainer.
At least she's small! Easier to catch her attention, and not pull you over as easily.
Mary

I 100% agree with the above post. The problem with treat training is that the dog now has a choice, "would I rather chase this rabbit across the road or get a cookie? Rabbit, cookie? Rabbit, Cookie?" The rabbit will always win, making your screaming efforts of "COME!" across the highway unless.
Our trainer told us a story on the first day, in a nut shell, his fathers dog (trained with the check china method) begun to chase a rabbit at full speed towards the highway at a rest stop on the free way. The rabbit ran around eh fence and into the road, dog in hot permute. The owner (his father) yelled immedialty, "Scout! Stop! Down!" Guess what the dog did?
He stopped and screeched to a perfect down before running into the road. Had that dog been trained with treats, he wouldn't have stopped.

 

[Emily_loveschickens]

how does her harness look?

 

[Weeg]

Start in your back yard! And consider a better collar, as a chain slip collar, at least.
The leash should always be loose, no tensing on it at all. When she gets out of position, next to you, pop it sharply, no pulling. It's about timing, and learning new behaviors yourself. Practice doing 'about turns' and turning left and right, fairly fast, without her, before you add her to the mix.
Having her lead you around makes her the actual leader, not a good thing.
Classes! Call some trainers, ask your vet clinic for opinions about trainers, and watch some classes. Then, sign up somewhere, and see how it goes. If the first choice isn't helping, try another.
This is a very solvable problem, but it takes effort.
Mary

My thoughts exactly.
Another tip, if you use a check chain, (chain slip collar) make absolutely certain that you put in over her head in a P shape. Then, ALWAYS walk her on her left side, or the chain will be on incorrectly, and wont release. It should look like this on the dogs neck-

https://brierleyhilldogobediencetrainingclub.weebly.com/how-to-put-on-a-check-chain.html

 

[Weeg]

how does her harness look?

Good, but a harness is NOT a good way to train proper obedience. It actually give the dog all of the upper hand in puling, and has no way to initiate a correction. A proper slip collar or chain (prefer a chain since its weighted and releases immediately) will work well.

 

[Weeg]

A good way to start training with a slip collar, is to put your dog on a 20ft lead line and do the following.
Start walking with your dog around your yard. If she runs ahead of you, (distractions are key) swiftly turn around and eventually your dog will hit the end of the leash. The chain will tighten and initiate a correction. The dog will spin around confused as to what happened, likely run back towards you, and ahead again. Every time she runs ahead, swiftly turn around and she will eventually hit the end of the lead. Praise her with pets when she is at you side, showing her what you want. If she is lagging, do a 180 turn and meet her at your side, then praise her even though you put her there.
Always put your dog in a kennel or room by herself with no toys or anything to do for 15 minutes before and after training. The before makes them excited to go out, and open to learning. Putting them in afterwards makes them think over everything they learned, otherwise it slips their mind.

 

[Weeg]

Once she gets good at staying at your side on the long lead, transfer to a 6ft lead and do exactly what @Folly's place explained. When holding the lead, place your thumb through the loop and wrap your fingers around the rest of the lead. Then, make an, "Okay" sign with your fingers on your other hand, and hand the lead like this. You DONT want to grip the lead with the other hand, or it takes away your correction point, and you commence in puling the dog rather then proper training. When you make a correction, the lead should slid through your left hand, while you use your right hand to snap the lead. The above is correct assuming your walking on your dog's left side. The leash should ALWAYS be loose and dangling at your knees unless your giving a correction. If the leash has to much slack to give a correction with your right hand, its likely that your dog isn't far back or forward enough to need to give one.

 

[Isadora]

Good, but a harness is NOT a good way to train proper obedience. It actually give the dog all of the upper hand in puling, and has no way to initiate a correction. A proper slip collar or chain (prefer a chain since its weighted and releases immediately) will work well.

Glad I read through the pages. As soon as I read the initial post, I wanted to add the input that harnesses are not good for teaching dogs to heel. All they do is encourage to pull. You can get away with harnesses on really tiny dogs like chihuahuas or dogs that are respectful and don't drag you all over the place.

 

[Emily_loveschickens]

so i took her on a walk... and she was okay we saw two dogs both times she did not bark but she was jumping up and down on the leash and growling. we also saw a rabbit which is her biggest weakness.

 

[Emily_loveschickens]

so i took her on a walk... and she was okay we saw two dogs both times she did not bark but she was jumping up and down on the leash and growling. we also saw a rabbit which is her biggest weakness.

and for the pulling she pulled a little but there was some slack in the line, but was always infront of me