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Why We Don't Need a Metal Bar on the Front of Leerburg's Leather Police Muzzle

By Ed Frawley

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I'm doing this video because we had a call from a potential customer wanting to know if our leather police muzzles had a metal bar in the front and the answer is no, we don't need a metal bar on the front. The people that manufacture muzzles that need to put a metal bar in the front are people that don't use as good quality leather as we do.

Our leather is—if you're not a leather expert—12 to 15 oz leather. In the leather industry, they have their own language. That's the thickest leather you can get. Our Amish guys make these leather muzzles for us.

There are two layers of the thickest leather you can buy on the front of this. There is no way that I need to put a metal piece in the front of our muzzles—it's not necessary to put it there. I know because back in the late 90s, I did my first video on Muzzle Fighting with Police Service Dogs. I just redid that video a couple years ago so I know a thing or two about muzzles and I know that you don't need to get a muzzle with a leather strap in the front. View our course on Muzzle Fighting for Police Service Dogs released in 2021.

If you are a police officer looking for a leather muzzle, buy one of these. You don't need to have a competitor's muzzle that has a metal strap in front of it. It just makes the muzzle heavier and it's not needed and these are not going to wear out. They're not going to get soft. I guarantee you nobody has a dog that's gonna bend the front of these muzzles over. This is a quality piece of leather. It's handmade by the Amish harness makers that we use that have done business with us for 34 years.

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Ed Frawley

Ed Frawley is the founder of Leerburg. He has been training dogs since the 1950s. For 30 years, Ed bred working bloodline German Shepherds and has produced over 350 litters. During this time, Ed began recording dog training videos and soon grew an interest in police service dogs. His narcotic dogs have been involved in over 1,000 narcotics searches resulting in hundreds of arrests in the state of Wisconsin. Ed now solely focuses on producing dog training courses with renowned dog trainers nationwide. If you want to learn more about Ed, read about his history here.