Training Collar

It’s a game changer, like power steering for your dog!! We got a German Shepard at 12 weeks, who’s now 6 months old. Up until last week he was completely leash trained, the first week we had him he would lay down sometimes or randomly pull but he stopped that after a week of being with us. We could take him anywhere and he wasn’t reactive to people or other dogs, he just walked and didn’t care, he’d sometimes stop and sniff. If we used a collar he would get wild but with his tactical harness he was extremely obedient on walks. Two weeks ago he hit 6 months(neutered) and he suddenly just got wild on walks even with his harness. He’s 55 pounds and he has a lot of power behind him and he started constantly pulling full force, would no longer heel and would randomly lay down and not get back up. If you stopped to try and make him sit he’d keep pulling. This all started on a trail in the woods. A mile in and he went wild pulling full force. We eventually turned around and he pulled full force the entire trip back to the car he ended up hurting the muscles in my back, shoulder and neck(disabled vet with spinal issues). The next day we took him for another walk around our neighborhood and the same thing happened, pulling full force. Today I tried to walk him in the backyard and it didn’t work, just pulling full force. I’d known about these collars since I was a kid and my parents had used them on our dogs growing up but I thought the collars were cruel and for lazy people lol. I looked online on how to fix this new walking problem we had and people kept recommending these Herm Sprenger prong collars. I was extremely reluctant but decided to watch a bunch of videos and it was amazing how much the dogs would change their walking behavior by simply switching to this collar. I decided to get one, it showed up the same day(today) at 10pm. I removed a few links to make it fit properly and took him for a walk, it was amazing. He had originally been a good walker before getting out of control but with this collar even his old “good walking” wasn’t this good. It’s now like he has power steering and brakes lol. I stop he stops, I walk he walks right next to me. I give a gentle pull and he sits. No random sniffing or momentarily forgetting we’re on a walk. This collar is so simple yet amazing. Now that I know it works I’m waiting for him to grow then I’m getting the larger size in black stainless steel.

Very well made. It certainly stops 99% of pulling. The 1% it doesn't help with is called......bunny rabbits.

I was one of those people that thought that prong collars "hurt" the dog and so was very reluctant to try it, even though two of my three dogs are huge pullers. I foolishly had both these dogs in harnesses, thinking that it protected them from doing themselves harm with their pulling. Both dogs are stocky and low to the ground and harnesses just encouraged them to pull even more. It became impossible to walk all three without actually endangering myself with how crazy they pulled and going all directions. I decided to try these prong collars and HOLY SMOKES, not only to the collars not hurt the dogs--they barely even notice them--but the insane pulling stopped immediately! It's kind of crazy. The dogs just can't pull as hard. Period. It's that simple. It is very easy for me to check them with a tiny tug if they do try to pull, but mostly they just check themselves. The collar just tells them with a squeeze when they are pulling too hard or getting too far ahead. My 40 lb puppy tried to jump on someone that she met on the street and made herself yelp because of the pinch this collar gave her, but guess what?? She hasn't done it since. And without it, I would have been yelling "no" just to be ignored by her. My walks with these guys has become so much more enjoyable! And much less embarrassing. I just wish I would have done it sooner. We went for years with our "yank and pull" basset, but she is 80% better with this collar. Just a note, the instructions say you have to take this apart to get it off, but that is nuts, it is way too hard to take apart and put back together. We just flip the collar so the prongs are outside when we take it on and off the dogs, so protect their eyes, and flip it back when it is on the dog.

Good product

This is my second herm sprenger, a 3.0. My first one was a 2.25 for my 50lb female Malinois. They are made well. You need to have a firm finger grip to latch and unlatch, but the angle of the links are such that you don't need to have incredible finger strength. Fit was right for my newly adopted 75 lb very fluffy Aussie Shepherd mix, didn't have to buy additional links. Listen, if you are going to purchase one of these, go to their site or do some research on how to use it properly and what size you need and how to fit it to your dog FIRST. It's very important if you're going to use this for training and have it be a GOOD training tool, not one that hurts/traumatizes your dog. These, used properly should never hurt your dog or be used to punish. Just a physical communication tool to correct and help them learn boundaries and basic commands and walk at your side without pulling.