A short list of people/dog teams that have benefited from the use of prong collars.
- Small people with large dogs.
- Any person with a dog that seems calm but suddenly bursts into action in some circumstances.
- People with dogs that are pullers. (dogs choke/gag on a slip collar or ignore a buckle collar)
- Disabled people with limited strength or range-of-motion to properly 'snap' correct a dog wearing a slip collar. A light touch is all that is needed. Sometimes the collars are put into a cloth tube .
- Person with dogs with damaged trachea or collapsing tracheas.
- Person 'fine-tuning' a dog's responses to commands.
- Bouncy puppies that are difficult to control in any other collars.
- Walking more than one of these dogs at the same time - you don't want ride your belly like a skate board while 200 or 300 some pounds of Anatolian in a team or troika take off with you.
- Walking a large protective dog at night in an area where the normally calm dog is walking high on his toes, ready to react before you are. He is on 'predator alert'.
A
properly fitted choke chain is very important in
training. It should be the size of the dogs neck
plus 2 inches. If your choke chain goes over your
dogs head a little snug that's alright because
most breed of dogs have a larger head than neck.
Now to put the choke chain on right drop the
chain through either ring and make the letter P
of the alphabet. Now with you looking at the
letter P slip it over your dogs head. With your
dog on your left hand side if you pop up on the
leash and release- the choke chain should also
release the tension on the dogs neck. If you are
using a pinch collar remember it does not go over
your dogs head, you must unhook it at a link in
the collar then go around your dogs neck and hook
the collar back together. You can add or subtract
links from a pinch collar to change sizes. A
pinch collar should fit semi snug on your dog. If
a pinch collar is fitted too loose it will not
give an effective correction.
