Message #229488

[Reuben]

 
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Cruel as you think it may be,, It's a training method that been around longer than any of us have been,.. I've seen my grandad use it countless times to train a retreiver or bird dog pup to retreive,,  I've never seen or heard of a dog ruined by this BUT I have seen good dogs turned in to culls with shock collar miss use.  (strap a Tri sonic collar on your neck and turn it all the way up),,,  A shock collar or a cinch strap used correctly is FAR less cruel than sending a young untrained dog that has no buisness putting teeth on a big boar off into the wood to see if he can figure it out by trial and error,,  Because error usually ends in injury or death!!!!


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This method is not cruel and it works, I believe that you are saying that the leash is on the dogs collar and you run the lease along the dogs side and then loop it around the dogs waist and then back thru the leash and it tightens when the dog pulls because it is looped around the dogs waist. I have used this before and it works but there are other methods that I use for training and that is to make the dog obey from a young age...

Example: I used this looping method to train a dog to lead. I switched the dog to a staked out chain for a week and that worked but since have switched again to a leash made of chain (the dog can't chew it up) that I let the dog pull around for several days about an hour a day when I let him out. Once the pup isn't paying it any mind I will play with the pup and then I will pick up the lease and try to let him follow me. If he gets scared and pulls away I will pet it and drop the lead and get the pup to follow me. I will use small treats and he will usually follow right away. We just have to be smarter than the dog.

Having said that there are times when it is better to get a different dog than to try and train what is totally againsts the dogs nature... Like the old saying... You can paint the spots on a leopard but it is still a leopard.