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[hollysmom]

32. It depends on the dog

When I had the border collie, I walked her on the leash to the park, but I didn't really need to, she always walked next to me, herding me to the park.

When we got there, if there were not a lot of people around, I let her of the leash and had her herd the Canadian geese out of the park. They really hated her, in a few weeks we had run out the geese, We maintained a watch to chase them when the returned. When there were no geese, we would go to our play date with another well trained dog. The dog responded to whistles - come, left, right, and free. I never trained her, she sort of trained herself, I used to work in the yard and let her wander around, she would go visit the neighbor on either side, but not wander any further off, although one day she did go to the park by herself, that was the one exception to the rule. We never figured out how she got out of the house since the doors were closed and she was inside a few minutes before.

But some very steady dogs can walk without a leash, don't know about labradoodles though they always seem too fun loving.