Dog thread!🐾

[MyParadiseFalls]

I'd personally like to hear it

I’d never do it with a puppy (and absolutely didn’t do it to Aspen) but when you’re walking if your dog pulls, keep your hand with the leash in it against your chest and do a sharp U-Turn, if the dog doesn’t pay attention they’ll get a sharp yank on the collar, if she/he is paying attention, they’ll stay in the turn with you. Repeated a couple times it fixed our horribly leash pulling hound mix. They WILL heel perfectly bc they don’t like that sharp yank. Im confident it can fix every dog, from a chihuahua to a Great Dane to yes, even a husky who is bred to pull against pressure

 

[SpotTheCat]

I’d never do it with a puppy (and absolutely didn’t do it to Aspen) but when you’re walking if your dog pulls, keep your hand with the leash in it against your chest and do a sharp U-Turn, if the dog doesn’t pay attention they’ll get a sharp yank on the collar, if she/he is paying attention, they’ll stay in the turn with you. Repeated a couple times it fixed our horribly leash pulling hound mix. They WILL heel perfectly bc they don’t like that sharp yank. Im confident it can fix every dog, from a chihuahua to a Great Dane to yes, even a husky who is bred to pull against pressure

Exactly what I thought it was going to be

 

[StinkyAcres]

I worry about the dogs joints with those


another thing is training tools can be great to help you manage the dog but they don’t train the dog not to pull, what ever you decide to use you will still have to train the dog as well

Well, it's better than the dog being choked by a collar. My dogs never had problems with them. And, yes, you should be training at the same time.

 

[MyParadiseFalls]

Exactly what I thought it was going to be

Imho it’s better than prong/choke collars. I find nothing sad abt it, it encourages the dog to have a sharper focus on your movements and to move in sync with you. It’s not our fault if they ain’t payin attention. I don’t force my dogs to heel all the time, instead they know that if I place them at my left heel they are to keep a heel. If I say “free” and move them to my right side they automatically know they don’t have to keep a consistent heel anymore and can walk a little more freely.

 

[Ilovemychicks08]

This showed up as i went into google. He is so adorable! And ive never actually seen a dog with the elephant nose(split nose) although ive heard of it. Not that id ever think of getting a dog that big where we live. Or getting it from a unknown shelter.
https://www.petfinder.com/dog/thurg...k/kiowa/pyr-paws-n-fluffy-tails-rescue-ok475/

 

[SpotTheCat]

Imho it’s better than prong/choke collars.

No its not better then a prong its the same and potentially more dangerous since prongs don’t put pressure on the front of the neck. whether prongs are bad or okay and whether any punishment in training is depends on the trainer

I find nothing sad abt it, it encourages the dog to have a sharper focus on your movements and to move in sync with you. It’s not our fault if they ain’t payin attention.

not the dogs either! Dogs are really not out here to spite people or obey them blindly

I don’t force my dogs to heel all the time, instead they know that if I place them at my left heel they are to keep a heel. If I say “free” and move them to my right side they automatically know they don’t have to keep a consistent heel anymore and can walk a little more freely.

the method you use is a very outdated one, I am pretty sure no good trainer whether a balance trainer or +R would use it. You aren’t setting your dog up for success your are setting them up for failure then punishing them for it. Sounds like recipe for a shutdown dog

I have only seen this method recommended by dog trainers where they walk around with a shutdown scared dog and call it well trained

and you all so claim it works for all dogs, aversive methods definitely don’t! You do that a few times and Pikelet would be a awful mess after that and Fanta would shutdown

I much prefer to have my dogs enjoy training, want to work with me and choose to

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

The closest I've gotten to stack picture so far, the lead's in the way

 

[SpotTheCat]

View media item 7959124This is what I like to see I need to get a good one of Fanta

 

[MyParadiseFalls]

No its not better then a prong its the same and potentially more dangerous since prongs don’t put pressure on the front of the neck. whether prongs are bad or okay and whether any punishment in training is depends on the trainer

not the dogs either! Dogs are really not out here to spite people or obey them blindly


the method you use is a very outdated one, I am pretty sure no good trainer whether a balance trainer or +R would use it. You aren’t setting your dog up for success your are setting them up for failure then punishing them for it. Sounds like recipe for a shutdown dog

I have only seen this method recommended by dog trainers where they walk around with a shutdown scared dog and call it well trained

and you all so claim it works for all dogs, aversive methods definitely don’t! You do that a few times and Pikelet would be a awful mess after that and Fanta would shutdown

I much prefer to have my dogs enjoy training, want to work with me and choose to

Call it what you will and you don’t have to agree but my dogs DO NOT shut down during training but they engage more often, pay closer attention. So what if it’s outdated? It works

 

[MyParadiseFalls]

View media item 7959124This is what I like to see I need to get a good one of Fanta

I love this! I don’t do it myself (treat training) because I find that my dogs are more focused on my hand and the treats than anything else.