airwalk wrote:
Erin..have you seen the new Canny Collars. So far we really like them. We have a couple of knot heads that have been complete buggers to walk (like dislocate the shoulder of an NFL Offensive lineman bugger). The Canny collars seem to be better accepted by the dogs, doesn't reef on the neck but maintains control.
amazincc wrote:airwalk wrote:
Erin..have you seen the new Canny Collars. So far we really like them. We have a couple of knot heads that have been complete buggers to walk (like dislocate the shoulder of an NFL Offensive lineman bugger). The Canny collars seem to be better accepted by the dogs, doesn't reef on the neck but maintains control.
Oh, we have one of those!!!
When Sepp temporarily "misplaced" his brain on walks a couple of months ago I used that a few times, w/a flat-buckle collar as back-up, and it was amazing to see how fast he remembered his leash manners.
maberi wrote:Are those collars fairly easy to fit? Trying to teach a shelter dog how to walk nicely on a leash definitely isn't easy. We have a couple of dogs that are strong as mules and you are trying to keep a happy medium between training and letting them burn off some steam.
The one thing I'm constantly struggling with is training the volunteers not to be so excited and high energy around the dogs. They shower the dogs with affection which is great, but they do it in such an excited high energy manner that it amps the dogs up and encourages bad behaviors.
maberi wrote:Are those collars fairly easy to fit? Trying to teach a shelter dog how to walk nicely on a leash definitely isn't easy. We have a couple of dogs that are strong as mules and you are trying to keep a happy medium between training and letting them burn off some steam.
The one thing I'm constantly struggling with is training the volunteers not to be so excited and high energy around the dogs. They shower the dogs with affection which is great, but they do it in such an excited high energy manner that it amps the dogs up and encourages bad behaviors.
Yep--I wrote that it reduces pulling in my strongest dog by about 80 to 90%. That remaining 10 to 20% is still enough to wrench a shoulder out of joint, of course, if I'm not paying attention and Vanya sees something that he really wants to go after. It's not a magic bullet, that's for sure.airwalk wrote: The front clip harness, however, does not work on all of our dogs.
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