Originally posted by wolfsoul
The only thing that works with her is a prong collar. No pain, no discomfort, because when she wears it, she does not pull at all.
I understand, thats totally your opinion and your dog, and this is just my opinion.. But to me, it just seems like if you have to put this pinch collar on your dog in order to walk her, there are still underlying problems. Its like dogs that need prongs are not pulling because of intimidation or threat. I think that dogs shouldn't yank you around because they respect you, and they've been trained not to pull, period.

And, yes I have had a very stubborn, huge dog in the past. when we got our Rottie, he had been owned by an abusive man and had never been leash trained at 4 years old. He would go crazy and bark and pull you across the street if he saw another dog (even though he loved other dogs, when properly introduced). We did use prong collars, haltis and choke chains at the strong recommendation of the highly educated Petsmart trainers. Nothing worked, at all. He would pull less with a prong collar, but the problem was still there, and if a dog really wants something and doesn't respect their owner and hasn't been trained thoroughly, they WILL pull to get it. Then my Mom found a wonderful Obedience academy, and after almost a year of training, he wouldn't pull us for the life of him, no matter what kind of collar he was wearing. He weighed well over 120 lbs, but he would walk right beside me with a loose leash no matter what kind of dog we were aproaching, when I was 9 years old.