Prong collar advise - Page 3

I like  http://www.dogsportgear.com/prong_collars.htm as well - ordered alot from them...

I remember Bridgeport having good prices.

Thanks guys for the sites to get that prong collar. I'm looking for a small size but probably will need extra link. I better clarify the miss understanding. I don't train at petsmart. When my dog was 7months old i enrolled her into a obedience class there. She will be be 4 in July. I'm not going there to start trouble. I just thought it would be a good place to go inside a building and train your dog around numerous people and dogs. That the bigest place that allows dogs inside of a building. I don't shop at petsmart for dog things. I happen to buy the prong collar there a long time ago (medium) then exchanged it because of a friend telling me the (small) would be more effective for my dog. So now i notice that the collar is starting to loosen with the links and pop off too easily. I decided to take it back for another one yesterday because I thought it was a manufacture defect. Guess not. I'm going to look into this brand that many of you have told me about. I still have to go back and get my money for the one the manager recommended to me yesterday (medium)...way too big. I usually go buy fish and filters from petsmart thats it. My dog things usually come from kvvet.com. So you guys don't think i should bring my dog there to have her practice relaxing being around other dogs? She is so annoying when she gets so hyperactive and avoids every command that I give her. But when we are on a field her obedience is great. For some reason she wants to do her on thing and block what I'm saying when a lot of dogs are havoring around with people.

Agree with most everything that I have read so far.  Herm Sprenger prong collars are great.  Get the quick release so you can use the number of links to make the collar fit properly, snug, then easy to take off and on.

As far as Petdumb, or Petco, all the same. Morans at best.  If you give them 5 pts on an IQ test they can equal a plant.  I have watched their obedience and I squirm and get so agitated I have to leave.  If they start telling you you are abusing your dog in any way, in front of patrons, regardless of the issue, I would start talking to someone about lawsuits.  I would scare the Sh.. out of them.  They are no ones to talk about abuse.  These are the type people and organizations that I keep harping about.  I had better quit while I am ahead, I can get real nasty when these type of goody goody bleeding heart  supposed dog people come up.  By the way, they are soft.  Soft is not the real issue but it is apart of it.  Just Dumb is the best definition. 

Hello Hodie,  What is wrong with Ray Allen?  Serious question. 

I would find somewhere else and anyways, those Pet Store people will not stop yapping at you no matter what.  

So you say when you are on a field doing formal ob she is great, but with a lot of distractions she starts to ignore you?  Are you talking about an organized group or club where you practice?  It sounds like either she has learned she can get away with things at times or you haven't proofed her with distractions. 

It's really hard to give good advise when we can't actually see the situation.  If you belong to a club, I would ask for help from my fellow club members.  Maybe those with very stable dogs wouldn't mind heeling around you so as to begin adding in distractions, and so you can correct your dog in a controlled environment.  If you are doing schutzhund, how is your dog with the group?  Have people without their dogs mill around and correct your dog if she moves out of correct position.   Then maybe add in a really good dog/handler team who wouldn't mind heeling around with you.  Then correct her when she pays attention to anything but you, and maybe work in more teams once she gets the message. 

I was at one of Bernhard Fliks Seminars few years back and I remember him saying that the PRONG should the way up and fit the way that it would not slide down also leash should be cliped on both rings so this way will work all the around the neck .

RDH .......... sorry that was my misunderstanding ............ thought you were going to take one of their silly classes.  My mistake.

Help, please! I just visited the Sprenger collar sites and want to use a prong when we walk on the roads. My dog will pull at times, (and he is strong!), especially if his dog buddy is ahead of him. I would definitely say my dog only needs a "soft" correction, so what size link do you recommend? What do you think about the prong collar with the handle on it? Would that be better for control on the roads, maybe?

Also, is the fursaver just a better designed choke collar? I'm thinking I should get both, and I my friend with the wolfhounds' dogtrainer likes using the little links? What are your reasons to use a different size? 

My dog just weighed in at the vets at 75.5 lbs and I just measured his neck at 18". What sizes would you suggest? Small link, size 20"? Does that sound about right?

Thanks for your help.

Holy cow I would have had a field day with the Petard people if they tried that shit with me! You did want an exchange right, not their lousy advice? I'd have told them I pay a "real" trainer for this shit, I just buy a few incidentals at your crappy overpriced, oversized petshop! Probably would've threw the chain threw their window and walked out screaming and making a scene to embarass them.

LOL 4 pack, I think I would have had to make a scene too.  Especially being pregnant, I can fly off the handle very easily I've discovered. 

beetree I usually use the medium sized on my guys, only because they both have such thick fur around their necks!   Well, when Lexie has blown her coat and is bald, then I can use the small for a short time.   LOL

Especially my male, the small would just get lost!

Kathy