Gentle Leader...Harness...Flat Collar...

[Rosefern]

I saw this dog the other day at Petsmart...the poor thing had on a Gentle Leader, a harness, a flat collar, and a bark collar. :yikes:

They were going to training class, so hopefully the trainer will set them straight and tell them that that much hardware does literally nothing except perhaps tire the dog out because it's wearing five pounds of leashes and such...

Anyways...so it got me thinking...

How do you walk your dogs? Flat collar, harness, Gentle Leader?

I walk Flicka and Pepe on harnesses...

The fosters are walked on whatever works for them...some come in walking perfectly well on a flat collar...others need more work...

-Rosefern

 

[gia's stepmom]

Our girl will only walk with a regular harness. I personally feel a harness is more humane in that it distributes the weight of the dog better than hurting the neck muscles.

 

[Zoom]

I used to know a trainer who would start a dog out with a flat collar, choke chain, prong collar and e-collar on all at the same time. When a couple corrections with the first collar didn't seem to work, she'd move up one and so on. She said her dogs looked like Mr. T walking around.

I walk my dogs on flat collars.

 

[PWCorgi]

I walk Izzy and Frodo on Lupine martingales, they walk on loose leashes but I haven't got around to getting them flat collars.
Mollie walks on a flat collar.

 

[Tankstar]

If i ever have him leashed its on a flat collar normally. ATM its a harness, becuase when at the dog park there is so really icy hills, and I use him to help pull me up lol. Otherwise I only (well 98% of the time) walk him at the dog park, so not much use for a leash for us. Except for pet stores and parking lots.

 

[Maxy24]

Max had a Choke collar, Phoebe walks on a Harness and has a collar because the collar has her tags but she has a collapsing trachea so she needs the harness. My future dogs will be walked on a flat collar unless there is something wrong with their throats that requires a harness.

 

[Pam111]

Just a regular harness. She's a Shih Tzu, so I didn't want to damage her neck when she was a puppy, so I don't generally walk her with just a collar. She does wear a collar when we leave the house, though, because it has her tags on it.

 

[corgipower]

Ares and Nyx get walked in prong collars, Tyr in a fur saver, Morgan gets a check-choke.

 

[ACooper]

I started out walking Orson on a flat collar, moved on to a gentle leader, and for now he uses a prong collar. It doesn't matter how many times we walk the same path, or how many times we have went over proper lead walking at home in our own yard (which he does VERY well).........as soon as we hit the 'town' he pulls like he has never had a walk in his life so until he matures a little more and calms down we use the prong.

Phoebe is a perfect little girl, LOL, a flat collar works just fine for her.

 

[RD]

Eve walks on a flat collar, occasionally if we're in a really high-distraction area she wears a gentle leader. I have a pinch collar for her but thus far have never used it.

Dakota, Dash and Eve when just going on leisure walks, all get walked either on harnesses or with Mendota slip/martingale leads.

 

[bnwalker2]

Scooter wears a prong collar on walks, the other three just wear flat collars.

 

[milos_mommy]

Milo gets walked on a flat collar. He was on a harness but he ate it. I was going to buy him a new one but it he walks very nicely by now, so it's pretty unnecessary.

 

[LoveMyKees]

Max is a big puller, so we have him on a harness. We used to use a prong but switched, then used a choker and stopped because he would pull until he literally choked himself

 

[elegy]

harv just wears a flat collar.

luce and mushroom wear flat collars also, but i don't attach the leash to them just in case something were to happen. i'm neurotic like that, and want to make sure they have id on them even if the collar were to break or slip. if we're going somewhere high distraction, they usually wear prong collars as well. low distraction, i use a nylon slip collar. sometimes mushroom wears a sense-ation harness, especially if he's going somewhere to meet a new dog to play with. he's less defensive in a harness.

 

[ArcticHeatwave]

Zoey wheres a flat collar and sometimes she wears a martingale. I like them both and she walks fine..until she sees a squirrels. *stupid squirrels!!*

 

[Baxter'smybaby]

A flat collar for Baxter---and Trav often doesn't need a leash, since she stays close and listens well! If it is a high traffic zone, then the flat collar for her as well.

 

[Toller_08]

I walk mine with Martingales. I leave their flat, everyday collars on as well as they have proper ID attached to those collars.

Sometimes I use a harness on Dance as well, depending on where we're going and what we're doing.

 

[StillandSilent]

Lilly walks and practices obedience on a Gentle Leader, but always wears a flat collar with her ID and rabies tag on it.

 

[houndlove]

Marlowe's on a flat collar, though if he's going to be on his 25 foot long line, he's in a regular harness so he doesn't build up 25 feet worth of stream and then hit the end on his neck.

Conrad's regular collar is a nylon martingale, but for walks we use a sense-ation harness in addition to the martingale (leash is clipped to both).

 

[noludoru]

Flat collar... once in a while now I bring my prong with me, because sometimes he forgets the few leash manners I have worked to teach him and goes nuts... The prong at least keeps him from "lunge-and-keep-going" and "throw yourself against the leash and repeat" moves, though it doesn't prevent the first lunge. He just stops after that, for which I am thankful. I got dragged into a tree and through a small patch of briars and saplings a few weeks ago when I let down my guard and he was in this mode.. NOT FUN.