Hokey...

Alright everyone I'm probably going to get some hate mail for doing this but, I bought pinch collars for both our dogs. Now I didn't just run out there and buy them before trying other methods. I've tried a flat collar, a halti (which just turned Raven off from wanting to even stand up once I put it on him), a variety of harnesses and lastly tried a choke chain. So finally I went out and got one and I'm quite serious my brother took his Boston terrier out for a walk with it and comes back saying it was the best walk they ever had together since before she would drag him around the yard. And I was with him walking Raven behind him and she had a bounce to her step and was actually paying attention to him as they walked.

Now I will mention that we live with my grandparents and at this time I'm off at school (which I wish residence would allow pets, then Raven would be with me :( ) So Raven (who also pulls pretty hard) is left to be walked by my grandparents and mom (who all have bad backs).

Alright they may look horrible and people will probably start calling me a sick f*ck for using them on my dogs and all those lovely things, but I'll tell you something, when I went to try out a halti (head harness) on Raven he looked miserable walking out of the store and people were looking at me as if i was a horrible human being. He hung his head and finally just laid down and wouldn't budge. I tried the halti a few times before finally just hanging it up and going back to a harness and being tugged along for the ride. With the Pinch collar he actually sits down in front of the door when I pull it out and tries put it on before I'm ready for him. As soon as i put it on him he walked right next to me, I could even keep a slacked leash with him. Same goes for Sybil; there was actually loose leash between her and me (even for my brother) while walking.

I'm probably going to get people bashing me for using this and if that's the case I'm going to delete this blog and end it there because I will not tolerate that on my blogs. I just want to say that this blog is talking about my experience with pinch collars, I want to add my own opinion to the pot. But I will say what others have said, all training tools can be useful if used PROPERLY and useless if used INAPPROPRIATELY.

So thank you for reading this if anyone actually does read this and don't take my words to heart, go out there and make up your own mind about anything. Believe in what you believe. And again if I start getting mean feedback this blog is gone, I will not tolerate childishness on my blog, unless it's from Phil; this it's all right cause I know she's just trying to screw with me :P.

~Squeezy~