Work On Your Dog: Gentle Leader

If your dog is a puller (if!), it is counterproductive to use an ordinary collar, or even a choke chain or those medieval things with spikes. When the dog pulls, it chokes/hurts and the dog pulls even harder. With a Gentle Leader (known generically as a head collar), there is no choking. When the dog pulls, it turns the dog's head, the dog doesn't like it, and shortly--with a little help from you--the dog trains itself not to pull. My dogs are not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, and they both learned within 20-30 minutes. It makes all the difference in walking and running with them. Your dog's ability to eat, drink, defend itself, bark, etc. is not affected.