We have a 7 month old Northern Inuit puppy who we've had since she was 8 weeks old. She's been harder work than our GSD when he was a puppy! She is just a very friendly dog who wants to say hello to everything & everybody.
We got her a Sprenger prong ( after trying non pull harnesses, halti's gentle leaders etc)and walking her on a prong is just wonderful.
The plan is to show her in local dog shows but she immediately knows when the prong is off and she's on her ordinary half check leather collar. She then starts to misbehave & pull on the lead
At 7 months old I struggle to hold her. I don't think she'd be allowed in the show ring wearing a prong
Has anyone any ideas of how I can cure this problem, please?
Have you tried having multiple collars on at once?
Put her show collar and lead on, and a prong with a pull tab. If she misbehaves you can reach over and prong collar correct her. But while practising she will only feel the leash that is on the show collar.
I'm not that experienced, but you'll probably have to desensitize her to wearing the prong collar. There are threads on how to do that, and it involves putting the collar on and taking it off many times throughout the day and wearing it around the house.
Lynne Barrows Webboard User Reg: 09-22-2007
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Hi Gwenda!
Here is a thread addressing exactly your problem, and solutions!
(in particlular, read the 'follow the leader' technique that Geoff Empey recommends; I will be trying that w/ my pup also!)
Hi Lynne,
Thanks for your reply.
We have been doing the follow the leader approach and we go to a huge empty car park in the early evening to practice.
She is perfectly OK when she is wearing her prong but I would really like to be able to walk her on a standard collar.
Perhaps I'm expecting too much too soon from an 8 month old puppy.
Thing is with the NI's - they have the brains of a GSD, the energy of a husky and the stubborn streak of the Malamute.
At times she is perfectly OK on a half check leather collar but certain people and seeing other dogs get her too excited and she's all over the place.
What we have been doing is using the 2 collars with one of Ed's double ended training leads attached to each one and we are making some progess at last (I think lol)
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