 Choke Chain collars?
Hello all. I need some advice, especially from those who have done the obedience training with your babies. Do any of you use choke chain collars for training? See I Usually use harnesses for Athena ( now 22 weeks/ 5 months old), but the trainer says that harnesses teach dogs to pull and its harder to train them with harnesses. she Likes to use choke chains. I am nervous however about using any kind of collar on a leash because I have heard so much about collapsed trachea and how collars can help contribute to that. According to my reserch on the web, Yorkies are suppose to be more prone to collapse trachea's. The trainer, who is also a good friend of my daughter thinks I google too much...ROFL .....Could be true. Sometimes goggling is bad. Its not that I think she is wrong, its that I dont know, and I dont want my baby hurt, so I want to know for certain, or at least relatively certain if it is safe. She has just started obedience training and we eventually want to start agility training her. |