App User Tara
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Our trainer was recommended by our breeder. He also has two adult Mals with all sorts of titles. The prong is not on more than an hour at a time and only when in house and on walks or training. He is responding to it really well. He was not responding to the martingale at all.
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He wears in house cause trainer wants us to us that as a correction.
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Thank you for your response. My last puppy never did any of these things. Like I said it looks like missing mom, nursing type thing cause he only does it when he is tired.
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We use the 2.25 Herm Sprenger. This is the one Robert recommends and uses with his dogs. He has a video on it.
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Excellent ideas!
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My experience with my now 20 week old pup and a prong for the last few weeks….
During obedience class while trying to heal without luring he was pulling hard. Trainer introduced us to prong. Nearly night and day difference! Walks are enjoyable and not a fight and heal is perfect (he only heals when asked to). I also have a problem with him being fearful and pulling near anything that scares him (cars,people,and anything he thinks is odd basically). I watched a lot of videos that said to keep his attention on me with lots and lots of treats while he is scared. He needs to know I “got this” so he could build confidence in me and himself. I was doing this for a few days at the park before I used the prong. Again, night and day difference with the prong. Since he knows he can’t lunge and pull he doesn’t seem as threatened by everything. I literally train him at the park, in the grass, next to the sidewalk and a busy two way street a University is on, with people running, babies in strollers, dogs walking, bicycles and so on. We stop and sit, heel, stay, come with all these distractions with absolutely no lunging, pulling or barking. We can walk by people on a trail and he is perfect. Our trainer even says it’s like he is a new dog, huge change, not only in the pulling but his confidence. For us the prong has made a huge difference!! Hope this helps!