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Originally Posted by NalaLuv  My roomate had a friend over and when Nala ran up to her as soon as she came through the door looking for attention as she always does...I aplogized for her hyperness and tried to lead Nala away with a treat. The chick was like "Apparently the treats aren't working" Holding my composure as I am a first time dog owner and am learning as I go...she continued to explain she was an animal behaviorist or something like that and that I should invest in a training collar for Nala. So I go online and look up training collars and did not like what I saw...but then I found prong collars that are supposed to be for smaller dogs...I just wanted to know if anyone has used any of these to train their fur babies? Nala is 5 lbs 4 1/2 months and very rambunctious. I'm waiting for all of her shots to enroll her in obedience school...but I wanted to see if anyone has used these collars. They seem a little cruel. |
Prong collers need you to have great timing to use well and have them work.
To have them work you need to blow the dog off it feet and cause fear and pain the first time for the dog never to repeat the action again.
If use wrong you will only increase the bevaior you wish to stop also you will cause the dog to become use to a prong coller.
Prongs can do a great deal of danage to a medium size dog but to a little one they can do a great deaql of harm as in wreaking the dogs tract.
I suggest you work on focus and find a good trainer to help you.
It is your choice to use what ever tool ios on the market and sold legally so by al mean s if you feel its your only chance do so but the risks are great to hurt the dog.
JL