Pulling is a head thing and the result of poor impulse control. Train your dog not to pull and you can walk him with a string tied around his waist! Haha. Just kidding about that but you get the point. Just teach him not to pull. When he starts pulling just stop and stand in place or turn, walk the other way. If you choose to stand in place, just stand there and don't move until he calms down. You do not move forward until the dog stops moving, jumping, pulling and controls himself. The reward for calm standing is to say "Yes" and to walk forward again. You are teaching the dog to calm himself. At first you will think he can't or you won't live that long but, girl, if you stand there, eventually he will stand still. Bingo! Say "Yes" and move forward. He has just learned that controlling himself got him something he wanted. The second time he learns this, even better. After a couple of weeks of this, he will begin to associate that "Oh, if I stop pulling and jumping, we get to walk forward" and make himself do it. Keep it up and don't grow tired of him taking time to learn because one of the things he is learning is that excitement and pulling GET HIM EXACTLY ZIP! NOTHING! So all that jumping he is doing at the end of the leash is teaching him that nothing fun happens that way. Eventually the little guy will get the idea, learn to control his impulse to pull and jump around and walk nicely with only normal, occasional pulling which is quite fine for a dog out for an enjoyable walk. Only the military or police need a dog that is trained to walk like a robot and never takes a wrong step!
The first part of a good walk allows the dog to walk and smell and do what he wants, stop and sniff every scent he's interested in and explore, wander and kick up his heels, even walk in circles around his mommie if he wants. JK about that, too, but it happens sometimes! But a good, natural walk allows him to "read" the news of who has recently been around and all about them and their territory, their gender, society, etc. It is exciting for your dog to get to sniff all of that information and informs him. Your dog needs this instinctively - he yearns for it. Let him sniff and smell and pee and pee and pee all the way along the first part of the walk. Then, half way through it, stop, go the other way and walk briskly and get those little muscles of his moving along smartly and keep him going to get in a good exercise. But you don't need a collar to control a dog by the neck. It's all in the head and whether or not you have control over your dog's impulses. You will get there by simple obedience training and always being in control of your dog. You can always be in control of your dog by teaching him tricks and to do things you ask him to, in reward for a nice treat and praise. Small dogs rarely work well for praise - mostly it is for food, though some works for toys. Dogs will do just about anything for food. In time, they learn that pleasing you is really neat, too and eventually, they learn to want to please you more than anything, as they see you as an extension of them - and their pack leader. They recognize they are part of a team and they want to do what you say. But you, a private person, without a service dog in the military or police to train, don't need neck control as you train. Don't let some dog trainer convince you otherwise. You are in control of your own dog so stand up to any trainer that might cause you to somehow strain your dog's delicate trachea with a collar. Just work on your dog's brain and teach it and the body will follow.
