As a trainer, my dogs either have on a flat buckle collar, a fur saver, a prong collar or choke collar.
I have a few dogs I compete w/ in Obedience; Schutzhund (yes, even a Yorkie as a demo dog) and conformation. From a 3 pound Yorkie to a 123 pound Akita. And I usually start them on prong collars, especially the Yorkies (because they're safer collars when corrections are applied-it's an evenly distributed correction as opposed to a choke collar) and then as they need next to no corrections, I then switch over to a choke collar (it's all you can show on besides a fur saver or buckle collar).
On a Yorkie or other small breed, I would never start them on a choke collar, but to later go to one when very few corrections would be needed that's fine.
The idea is to go from a prong to a choke to a buckle to the dog being naked and still responding as though he had the prong collar on.
I've never had a single issue w/ tracheas using these collars. All I do for about 10 hours 5-6 days a week, for the past 7 years is train dogs of all sizes and issues and not once have I had a problem...it all depends on the trainers ability to assess the dog, know what collar they need to achieve what they need to and know how to PROPERLY use their equipment. |