Nope, they're not. The one you're supposed to jerk around is a choke chain. Even when they're used properly they can do some seeeerious damage. Prongs are self-correcting. As in, the dog pulls away, the prong action kicks in - you are NOT supposed to jerk a dog around when it has a prong on. Usually people aren't told how to use them, though. So they do. Just like they'll (CRINGE.) try and slip a prong on OVER A DOG'S HEAD instead of unlocking and re-clipping around the neck. Usually they're told to put it high on the neck, too, right behind the ears - "where it's the most sensitive". Also incorrect.
Neither are optimal, obviously, but even though a prong looks like a medieval device, it's actually preferable when used properly. Both can damage the neck - but so can using something like the EZ walk head harness like what was mentioned above, you know? Anything is bad in the wrong hands (well, except for choke chains, which are bad whenever!).
Either way, it's sad that she is just blindly listening to a (n incompetent) trainer's advice instead of doing her own research and finding her own path. If she had read up on everything and decided that a choke was the way to go, I'd still think she was an idiot, but I'd have the smallest bit of respect for her as well.
And by the way - I view my friends page in my style so I rarely see the journal layouts of my friends - until I come back and reply to a comment in my inbox. That new photo you have of Dahlia as your top photo is GORGEOUS!
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Date: 2010-01-09 06:36 pm (UTC)Neither are optimal, obviously, but even though a prong looks like a medieval device, it's actually preferable when used properly. Both can damage the neck - but so can using something like the EZ walk head harness like what was mentioned above, you know? Anything is bad in the wrong hands (well, except for choke chains, which are bad whenever!).
Either way, it's sad that she is just blindly listening to a (n incompetent) trainer's advice instead of doing her own research and finding her own path. If she had read up on everything and decided that a choke was the way to go, I'd still think she was an idiot, but I'd have the smallest bit of respect for her as well.
And by the way - I view my friends page in my style so I rarely see the journal layouts of my friends - until I come back and reply to a comment in my inbox. That new photo you have of Dahlia as your top photo is GORGEOUS!