Product Description

Unlike other wire style muzzles, our police muzzles only come in three sizes (small, medium and large) . The small size is designed to fit a female Malinois or male dog with a smaller head. Most normal German Shepherds or male Malinois will wear a medium or large. Please refer to the measurements in the Sizing Chart for accurate fit. For Rottweilers and Bully breeds, we recommend Leerburg's Heavy Duty Police Fighting Muzzle as it has more adjustable points and wider cheek width sizes.

Ed Frawley has produced two new online muzzle courses. HOW TO MEASURE YOUR DOG FOR A MUZZLE is a FREE course.

The second course is titled CONDITIONING YOUR DOG TO A MUZZLE. When customers purchase any Leerburg muzzle they will have FREE ACCESS to this very detailed course on how Ed and Cindy (his wife) condition their dogs to muzzles. The course contains 31 short videos that will explain how they use reward-based training methods to condition their dogs to accept and tolerate wearing a muzzle.

Do not use leather conditioner on leather muzzles.

It needs to be said that the wrong way to condition a dog to wearing a muzzle is to simply put a muzzle on the dog and put the dog in a dog crate, a dog kennel, or the back of a squad car and force it to get used to the muzzle.

Will that work? "YES" , but it will damage the relationship with your dog and it very well could end up damaging the muzzle because this stresses the dog so much, the dog may non-stop salivate, which then soaks the muzzle. It's like taking a leather muzzle and putting it in a bucket of water.

If you're a new police K9 handler learn how to properly condition a dog to wearing a muzzle. If you don't want to take the time it takes to do it correctly, then purchase one of our polymer-coated muzzles and force the dog to wear that muzzle. It's not what we would do, but at least when the dog salivates like crazy, it's not going to hurt the muzzle.

WARNING

There are several Facebook groups run by well-intentioned people who are telling dog owners to get these HUGE, HUGE muzzles. These folks claim these monster-sized muzzles allow a dog more room to pant, but fail to take several important factors into account. Poorly fitting, oversized muzzles come off far too easily--making this downright dangerous advice, especially if you have a reactive or aggressive dog.

The last thing someone in this position wants or needs is for a muzzle to come off their dog when it is needed the most. Our advice is to be very careful about listening to people who lack experience with aggressive dogs.