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Anytime Bear starts to pull, I immediately turn in the opposite direction and say in an upbeat tone "let's go." It took a couple circles, and I'm sure my neighbors thought I was a nut for basically walking back and forth for 10 minutes but that is all it took to break the pulling.
When I would just stop, he didn't t really understand that his pulling on the leash made me stop - the turning around let him know that he has to follow and wait for me to tell him what direction we're going to walk. Every now and then I just turn right or left randomly to keep him on his toes.
I also gave him a "go pull" command where he is allowed to basically pull me. And he loves this command - he gets all proud to run up front. I can't wait until he is old enough and it's winter for him to pull me up a hill on my sled.
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