This is us.
We have a rescue that’s a hound mix and we were desperately trying to get her to “walk nice” until a dog trainer told us the value of sniffing. Now every walk is a sniff walk. I don’t mind the sniffing, it’s the yanking us between spots that drives me nuts.
That being said, I’m still jealous of the people with dogs who happily amble alongside them at the owner’s pace.