Best collar to train a puppy not to pull on the leash while walking?

● "Best collar to train a puppy not to pull on the leash while walking"

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○ "What is the best collar to train a puppy not to pull on the leash while walking?"

my vote goes to a lightweight, straight-linked (aka "fur-saver") slip-chain: http://www.hvitrade.top/index.php?main_page=produc...

Ignore the dainty-wee red-tagged clip shown in those pics. You need a bull-nosed sliding-tongue horse-clip like: https://www.boredparacord.com/products/gold-leash-... with a 2m/6ft long 25mm/1" wide flat leather-or-woven-nylon leash with a loop to put your fist through.

My pups get their first leash walk (at 10+ weeks old), and EVERY walk for the rest of their life, on the same slip-chain. In other words, buy one to slip past an ADULT dog's head. not just over your about-half-grown pup's head! You need to learn which way round to fit the slip chain, depending on whether you conventionally "Heel" your dog by your left knee, or need it to "Heel" by your right knee. And you need to learn that, in the early stages, you let Pup decide how tight to make the chain before he slows down and waits for you - just DON'T let the leash get slack enough for him to put his head down and shake the slip-chain off,

● "So, I have a 5 month old puppy, ovee 40 pounds,

💥1: So what BREED or breeds is he? At that weight, he should end up slightly smaller than a German Shepherd Dog.

💥2: How long have you been in a weekly training class? You SHOULD be there for about a year starting when he was 18-to-22 weeks old (i.e., RIGHT NOW!), getting observed by an experienced instructor who will then COACH you to improve one-aspect-at-a-time of your awareness, body-language, timing & use of "voice tones", timing & use of praise & rewards, etc.

💥3: What do you want him to do for you when he is a trained adult?

● "who constantly pulls ahead of me while on walks."

I TRAIN my dogs to walk ahead of me (when there is room).

But on the first day I have to repeatedly stop at the end of the leash (because, it all being NEW to Pup, it is trying to go back home!), call it to me then gently haul it to me then praise & make a fuss of the pup before I suddenly move to the end of the leash in the direction *I* want to go. Although GSDs are fast learners, we usually pass 5 or 6 houses before that pup suddenly realises that it CAN explore these new smells & things provided she (I almost always keep a bỉtch) is going in the general direction I want to go.

Later, I encourage them (using a "permission" tone & word) to help haul me up the steep streets here.

Does your pup even know the word "STOP!" or "NO!" ?

If not you'd better start using it and STOPPING him (brace yourself, maybe hold onto a gate or fence or lamp-post if you are too feeble to own this size of dog) and refusing to move from your spot until he comes back to find out WHY you are still there even though there are all these fascinating scent trails (that YOU can't smell) all around you. Then you praise him for coming, and give him a fuss, then start walking in the direction YOU want, but letting him explore as far as the end of the leash WITHOUT hauling you.

● "What kind of collar can I get that will teach him not to pull?"

As almost everyone so far has stated:

Gadgets don't TRAIN dogs, children, or anything else.

PEOPLE do the training.

And to do THAT successfully they have to KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING!

Your equipment and your questions today prove that you DON'T yet know what you're doing.

🤢 To EDUCATE you is why elementary dog training classes exist!

🤯 To ASSIST experienced trainers (who can't see & identify their own tiny errors and how their dog reacts) is what advanced dog training classes exist for. One of many examples of advanced training is Heelwork to Music aka "Dancing with Dogs":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RW6j-K5v_jw

If you let the sequence continue after that you are sure to love the ballet-work (that I know as the "Hello Mother, hello Father" parody-song) and then the "Thriller" perfomance - maybe what follows those 3 too, but I needed to move on.

● "Currently using a soft mesh harness."

💥4: WHY????????

💥5: What on EARTH for?

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A harness is for taking the weight off a dog's feet & legs; and for supporting the weight of a dog that is recovering from leg surgery, or has a spinal injury (or ankylosing spondylitis) - or is suffering from such as degenerative myelitis and so cannot tell what its hind legs & feet are doing!

A harness does NOT assist you to change the dog's balance so that it automatically veers to the left or the right or sits (once you have trained it to respond to those changes of ANGLE of the tension in the leash) - indeed it PREVENTS and "soaks up" any attempts to use the leash like a horse's reins to signal that you want it to turn in a specific direction or to stop & stand or stop & sit.

👿 AVOID ANY kind of device that places a strap across the dog's muzzle just in front of the eyes (such as the Halti and the deliberately misnamed "Gentle Leader") - THOSE are for people too "cheap" & lazy to LEARN how to train, too STUPID to realise how much pain they cause the dog. Such people should, NOT be able to own pets or children! Horses have that sort of strap but it's well-padded! because its purpose is merely to locate the metal bit inside the horse's mouth - NOT to punish the dog as soon as it tries to pull.

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best advice, find a dog trainer or dog obedience school in your area to help get your dog trained, in the mean time head collars are great but are not a permanent solution to your issue the only thing that would is proper training.

Training is the most reliable and permanent method of teaching a pup not to pull on the lead,

Gadgets may work for a while but if you stop using the gadget, the dog will eventually revert back to pulling again.

Also wrong use of gadgets can be counter productive.

On a 5 month old small or medium breed pup, use either a plain wide soft leather buckle collar or on a large breed a half check collar.

Join a dog training club where you will be taught how to train your pup to walk to heel beside you and not pull on the lead.

Proper training goes further than using gimmicks, gimmicks in the wrong hands often cause more issues that have to be undone. If necessary seek professional help for yourself on how to train a dog properly. Size, strength of either the dog or you has no bearing on it. A properly trained strong over 175lb dog can be walked by a small child well under 100 pounds.

just a regular one, all puppies do this! you have to pull back and keep him by your side!

BTW, what breed?

get a training collar. when he doesn't mind you can give him a little mild shock.

A choke collar or a Halti. I'd suggest the Halti. Requires no skill to use. A choke collar is easily misused.

The collar, any collar, is just a tool. Tools don't train anything. That's the owner's job. Since you don't know how to leash train, do yourself, and especially this poor puppy, a favor and sign up for obedience classes for puppies! You need the help.

It is not the collar that does it but how you control the lead. You have to hold it tight and pull tight when pup tries to do his own thing. Thats what I've seen on The Dog Whisperer.

Get a Haltie, they are much more effective than a collar for training a dog to walk on leash. Most professional dog trainers use them.