
Thurs. Oct 25
I bought a Halty for Lewis. I've only tried it on him once. He hated it! He rolled on the ground more than walking just to get the darn thing off his snout. I'll keep trying it and let everyone know if it works out or not
Moderators: Barb Wright, Lisa
Choke + Prong collar at the same time!?!?!?!? That has an accidentally strangled dog written all over it. I would highly recommend you find a new trainer SmittysMom- that scheme is flat out dangerous. I've seen Monty's prong collar get tangled up with his normal buckle collar, and it took a few minutes to get it all free. With a choke collar, if such a tangling happened through the links of the choke collar, and it was to tighten down, you'd have the potential for a disaster.SmittysMom wrote:We worked with our trainer, and she put Smitty in in a prong collar plus a choke collar. We originally started training with only the choke, and he was still pulling. So after 3 weeks she added the prong and it made an immediate difference. Since we were training when we made the collar change, I can't fully say how much can be attributed to the collar, but it definitely helped some. Now he will occasionally pull, and when he does we tell him "no pulling" and if he still doesn't respond, we quickly pop his collar to deliver the correction. I can't remember the last time I actually had to deliver the correction.
Well considering that this is the trainer that ABR referred to us to, she has a 20 year history of success, she continually updates her knowledge by attending and hosting world renown trainers, and we've had nothing but success ourselves, I think we will stick with our trainer and her methods.Mark wrote: Choke + Prong collar at the same time!?!?!?!? That has an accidentally strangled dog written all over it. I would highly recommend you find a new trainer SmittysMom- that scheme is flat out dangerous. I've seen Monty's prong collar get tangled up with his normal buckle collar, and it took a few minutes to get it all free. With a choke collar, if such a tangling happened through the links of the choke collar, and it was to tighten down, you'd have the potential for a disaster.
(BTW: A choke collar on its own, due to the un-restricted tightening nature, can be quite dangerous. There are cases of an over correction (could even be accidental - i.e.- dog bolting for a rabbit on a loose leash) collapsing a dog's trachea. It doesn't take much force to do so.. I would highly recommend staying away from a choke collar all together, and would definitely recommend you NEVER put both a choke and prong on at the same time)