I had the most horrific and also embarrassing experience when walking 3 of my dogs on flexi-leads. My daughter and I took 3 of the dogs, Logan, Mr.Chips and Cherry up to the local woods, put them on flexi-leads so they could go a bit further ahead and explore. As we walked down the bridle path we came to a part of the woods where the track sides on to the local farmers fields, he is a pig farmer and breeds hundreds of pigs known round here as the "Packington Porkers" (Packington being the nearby village) well he had some sows and piglets on the field by the bridle path and the little piglets (Aww!!) were right up to the fence trying to look at the dogs, the dogs went mental! They were throwing themselves up the fence, Mr.Chips in particular was really having a go! The piglets merely watched in amazement!
There were leads in all directions and as we had locked them off long I was grabbing at the much finer cords in an effort to get the dogs back under control, needless to say in the fray my hands were cut to ribbons!
It wasn't until we got back to the car and I was washing my hands off with one of the bottles of dog water that I realised I had lost my engagement and eternity ring :yikes: We went back several times with our metal detector but as the fence by the bridle path is chain link it was going totally haywire!! I ended up claiming on our house insurance for my rings, and I had to ask my OH to my total and utter embarrasment "Darling, How MUCH did you actually pay for my rings, the insurance company need to know??"
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As it turns out, they were worth quite a bit and I got a lovely new pair of rings, but I never wear them when I walk the dogs, and the Flexi-Leads? Straight in the dustbin, it was a week before I could straighten my fingers out again OUCH!!!
So learn from my experience and buy a decent training line or 6 foot long lead instead, I personnally like the Rogz range of leads, they are slightly longer, come in a huge range of designs, sizes and colours and are reasonably priced too!!