Experience with couplers... Is it easier to walk two dogs with two leashes? Or just one leash and a coupler?

Question

I have two small dogs, one is a teeny puppy and the other is 1.5 years... They're "the same dog" (same parents had two litters over the past years), the full grown is 7 lbs and the baby is about 3or4 lbs!

I'm just curious what people's experiences are with couplers, if they're easier or more cumbersome than just getting two separate small retractable leashes?

Answer 1

The problem I have had with couplers is if your dogs aren't the same weight and don't pull at the same strength, one tends to drag the other along.

I would wait until your puppy is full grown before considering a coupler. It also helps if they both have leash manners. I made the mistake of buying a coupler and my 16 lb Pug just dragged my 7 lb Chihuahua around the living room. I'm glad I tried it out at home first and not on the actual walk.

And two retractables can be annoying if they're both running in different directions. I don't enjoy walking my two dogs with the retractable leashes unless my boyfriend holds one and I the other. But then, my dogs don't have any leash manners. :^)

Answer 2

Couplers work great if the dogs are well mannered on the leash.I would not have 2 retractable leashes,i can't control both at the same time.

Answer 3

I have two couplers a large one and a small one that i will be using for brace if i do it. I would not use two retractable leashes, retractables are not safe with just one let alone two.



Id get a small coupler and a regular leash. I have used one on two bulldogs,two weims, and a weim and a bulldog using my bigger one. I love couplers.



couplers definitely make it easier.

Answer 4

Couplers are great. You only have one leash to hold and it makes it much less likely you're going to drop the leash and lose the dogs.

Answer 5

i use the coupler on a heavy nylon leash not the retractable one.but i have to have the long n short coupler because one poms taller than the other.i had a guy that makes saddle make my 3 couplers.

Answer 6

i think of that in the process the adventure that your dogs are properly knowledgeable and in the event that they'll save up with one yet another quite of working one way and the different one runs any incorrect way. as long as you could administration them then i might propose getting one. in case you do not think of which you would be able to save up with them or in the event that they get out of control (working diverse approaches and dragging you alongside) attempt walking them with 2 diverse leashes in a million hand and then attempt it with 2 diverse palms. If the two works then defiantly get a sort of leashes. make certain that the ends of the leashes are long adequate for each dogs.(so there not conjoined jointly) If not something works you will discover somebody else to help walk a million of Your dogs on a similar time as you walk the different. Or walk a million of them at a time

Answer 7

A coupler is easier,but I usually just walk my big dogs separately.They like the individual attention they get that way,and it gives me an reason to have to walk more!