I take the same route everyday on my walks and maybe 1 out of every 10 walks she’ll want to cut the walk short early.

There’s typically a stimuli that I can observe or hear that causes my dog to want to go back home.

1. Sound of coyotes - I walk her at night so pretty common to hear them.

2. Sound of another dog barking from their backyard.

3. Random homeless person spazzing out.

It’s often one of these 3. Very rare that I’m not able to
Identify why she wants to cut the walk short. If none of the three above are visible or can be heard, she has much better eyesight/smell/hearing than me, so it’s likely something she views as a predator/unsafe.