Some of you may know that I have a standard poodle named Bella who is a joy except when we go on walks! She tugs and pulls for the first 10 minutes or so and it sounds like she is going to kill herself. We have successfully used choker collars on our poodles in the past as a training tool for their walks (recommended by the obedience school we went to). Well, Bella has not had formal obedience training since we have been trying to put what we have learned in the past into use with her. For some reason, starving herself of air and gagging and choking hasn't seemed to bother her. It has however really bothered me!
I got a Halti several days ago after reading about the Gentle Leader and Halti on here months before. I guess I am a little slow to put into action what I read. Anyway, yesterday I put the Halti on and before we even reached the end of my driveway she had "the message." We had a wonderful nice long walk with no tugging, choking or gagging and my arm stayed in the socket! Of course I am exaggerating just a bit here, but I wanted to share with you the tremendous success I had with this and I am so much looking forward to many, many more pleasurable walks with my sweetie because of this little device. A big "thank you" to whoever invented this!
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