[Tessa Arnold]

Originally Posted by Ashley V

That is irritating, but some people just don't know. I remember when we first realized we were getting a yorkie, we went and got a cute little collar for chippy. After being on YT, we realized we needed a harness.

What really made me mad though was when I went to one of those free instructional type classes petco has sometimes - well, the lady was being really snippy with Smokey cause Smokey wasn't laying still because he wanted to play with the other dogs. She was huffing and puffing and making comments about him. She had given me a hard time about putting him on a collar and not a harness because it "gives more control". I told her that I refuse to put him on a collar because yorkies have fragile tracheas. I asked about training classes and she gave me information on them and then said (very snippy), "but he has to have a collar to be in our class not a harness". I told her forget it, because she wouldn't be the one up with him at night or anytime of the day when he's practically choking or however it works, she wouldn't be the one taking care of him for the rest of his life, that she wouldn't be paying his medical bills, and that I found find a training facility that would adapt his training around his harness because this was the decision I made for him as MY dog to give him a healthy, happy life. She tried to tell me a collar couldn't do any damage to him at all and used her 80 lb dog as an example.

good call... find another trainer...