We have now had our rescue bitch for around 6 months, and have been trying to train her to walk on a loose lead since we got her. At first she was extremely anxious and it was very much "nervous pulling" but now she's much happier out and about but still pulls - much worse with DH than me. We have been doing treating/ click and treating and stopping when she pulls / praising when she walks nicely but progress is glacial. The problem is it really restricts the amount of exercise she gets - we're not prepared to walk along with her pulling as that will just fix the habit, so with DH in particular she can't go that far. Her recall is also less than great so she doesn't yet get to go off the lead much (we're working on this). We are now reluctantly wondering about trying her with a Halti type head collar - we would obviously carry on training her as well, but just so we can start lengthening the walks. She's still a nervy dog so I'm not particularly comfortable with doing this, but obviously if she was finding it distressing we'd stop. She has a long snout so this type of collar should fit her quite well. Any thoughts and experience?
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Halti type head collar for medium sized, nervous dog?
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diplodocus · 10/03/2014 15:34
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