Not a real leash. It's a phrase. [Get your bitch on a leash is the full saying, although Dixon is keeping it a little less aggressive than that. At least here in polite, friendly conversation.

He breathes deep through his nose.]

I get that I was wrong flying off the handle at people back there. I just don't understand why he went after me like that, when I went out of my way to keep him safe out there on the hill.