My husbands staffie will not go for a walk with anyone other than me and I wanted to know if anyone has experienced this. Before we moved last september, getting him to go for a walk at all was impossible, he get out of his collar and run home.

Now, He will not leave the house unless I take him. He follows me all over the house, even to the bath, how can we get him to change his behaviour so its not me doing all the walking.

Husband is loving it as he's lazy.... :rolleyes:

Couldnt you try walking out together and then letting your husband either carry on or turn for home with you at a distance or even out of sight.  Start with a minute or two and gradually increase as the dog becomes more relaxed ?

Hi Sarah

How old is he (The dog not your husband!)? I have a male staffie too and he is quite clingy. He will walk with hubby (or anyone that will take him ;)) but follows me around everywhere at home. If hubby gets up before me, he sits outside the bedroom door, wont eat his brekkie and sometimes shakes! However, he doesnt worry about being left for a few hours at a time and at other times loves being with just my hubby or my mum and dad, or anyone else for that matter. I have discovered that with him it is about changes in routine. I normally get up first, normally feed him etc etc and thats why he doesnt like it if hubby is up first. He doesnt like it on the odd occassion that I work from home but during the day it can be either one of us with him and thats why hes ok with anyone who will have him. He is just very sensitive and thats just the was he is. He also comes with me for a bath.

When you say that he wont walk with anyone else, what does he do? Is this when he slips his collar?

I would insist that hubby comes with you and make it really fun. Where do you walk? is it a park or on the road? If you can let him off the lead he may enjoy it more and may associate nice things with being out and about rather than with you in particular. You could gradually teach him some new tricks and get hubby to give him treats and stuff.

Im sure he will come around eventually.

Caroline x

I haven't experienced this, luckily my dog will go out with anyone, neighbours, friends, family and even strangers, as once or twice we have been held up at funerals ( been a bad year for us ) and had to ask friends of ours to come and take Tyler out who is has never met. On the flip side if anyone tried to dognap him i think he would go. Maybe it's Tylers breed, but also he has luckily had no bad experiences with people. I imagine for most dogs it's the highlight of there day. Has your husband and dog hand a bad experience together?

I had a doberman like that once, would only walk with me and even if she was bursting for the loo and running to the door, unless I opened it she would not go out LOL.
Didn't bother me as I loved walking.

I also haven't experienced the walking thing as my dog will go out with anyone as he just loves going out... but he does like to follow me everywhere in the house whether it be to the kitchen, garden, toilet, shower or bed :rolleyes:

Even if he is asleep the minute he hears me get up or I move he is right there.... 

When we leave him in the house and there is no-one there he is fine doesn't cry, whinge or bark... (know this as we have recorded him on several occasions! he usually sleeps)

But if I leave him downstairs or in the garden to go and do something he goes mental crying and whinging I'm just hoping that if I keep doing it for short periods of time that he will learn that it's not a bad thing and that I do come back and make a fuss of him...

I would also make sure your husband goes on the walks and if you can let him off the lead safely one of you stand at one end and one at the other and just call him back and forward between you giving him little treats when he gets to you and he might take to your husband walking him better...:)

K x

Mine is like that as well, wherever we are in the house or garden he likes to be, and will sometimes whine to be let in.

Er, if he can get out of his collar then it's not fitted properly  :rolleyes:

Whos collar isn't fitted properly?

I see now just read back through, doh thought i was losing my marbles!!

"Er, if he can get out of his collar then it's not fitted properly  rolleyes"

I agree but if the OP doesn't want to tighten the collar they could always try a harness - really good for dogs who consitently slip their leads or pull with their necks :)

Think the best thing to do is get hubby to come with us. His collar is fairly tight, and we could make it a little tighter. We use a choker on our Rottie and we tried this on him and he just stops in his tracks and won't budge, and I am not a believer of dragging him along.

He is 12 years old now and since last year when my dog died, he has been at my side constantly, not sure if Barnie's death had anything to do with it as he may have sensed my sadness. He does get jelous if either of my cats comes to me for attention and he nudges them out the way. 

He can't go for long walks because he has had problems with hs joints, so when I take the other dog out for a nice long walk, then I take him first, but in the morning I take both of them at the same time (often with a cat following us) for about 30 mins. He walks off the lead as he doesn't wander off and we live very close to 2 parks.

Lets see how walking him together helps and then I can start backing off.