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Originally Posted by yorkiemini  My opinion based on many years of dog training:
I would run the other direction from any trainer who insisted on behavior type collars. My Cali has gone through tons of training (as did my previous dogs) and always only wore a harness. Plus, I am a positive reinforcement proponent so anyone who uses a behavior collar would not fit my training criteria/philosophy.
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From reading the Amazon reviews, a lot of them say that this guy uses a very aggressive method. He teaches YANKING on a dog's leash when being disobedient, and when they don't cooperate, he yanks HARDER AND HARDER. He likes to jerk at the chains/leashes.
An Amazon reviewer said: "He is an advocate of the prong collar to an extent but mostly he just pushes his specially made collar on you throughout the entire video. Also if you watch his video you will see he doesn't even use his collars, he uses a choke chain. He does address this though, saying that he supposedly hadn't invented his collar when he originally shot the training segments. He believes regular flat collars cause more throat damage due to people letting them lunge and it's best to use a corrective collar early."
Another one says: "Basically you are using the physical correction of yanking on the plastic pinch collar harder and harder until the dog complies with your commands. Aside from this yanking he also recommends upper cutting the dog under the chin to make it learn the drop it command and to knee it in the chest to correct unwanted jumping. Or hitting the dog in the chest to teach it boundary training. This training is the equivalent of me trying to teach you to speak a foreign language and every time you mispronounce a word I will punch you. And I will continue to punch you harder and harder until you get it correct and only then will I stop hitting you."
Kneeing in the chest? prong collars? correction collars? yanking? jerking? upper cutting? ... this guy is a maniac! These will only teach a dog to be submissive or overly aggressive in the future.
AVOID AVOID AVOID