I signed Nova up for an 8 week puppy class, today was our first class and no pets just the trainer going over things. I have a few criticisms but the one that is probably nagging me the most is the recommendation of the easy walk harness (for a puppy class not a adult dog class) I just wanted to share what I think and see if others agree/disagree
The trainer was all over the Easy Walk Harness, like "THIS IS WHAT YOU GET" I was looking at that product well before I got Nova and came to the conclusion that its not something you want to train your puppy for, its much better reserved for a problem dog that is beyond your scope to correct.
My view is the harness is a bandaid to a dog that pulls rather than correcting the problem it masks it. I feel that since the reason we are at the class is to train our puppies right that the proper thing to do is teach not to pull with a collar.
She did not like regular collars, said they can hurt the dog too easy, she did not even mention a martingale collar, and she said if you must go with a regular collar that the least damaging is a prong collar.
I don't want to say that made the trainer lose face with me, but it kind of did so wonder if I am in the wrong for feeling this way about something pretty important.