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Originally Posted by dig420
about four posts up, if you bothered to read the thread, where he said "I -WHOOP- them". Clear enough?
Yes, you use a combination of the positive reward method and the prong collar. The collar is used mostly to teach them how to walk on a leash. Pits are pullers, they love sled competitions etc, and if you try pulling the leash to keep them from yanking your arm off they'll just yank harder. The prongs aren't painful for them, but they can feel them. You use positive rewards to teach them to stay, sit, come etc.
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Saying "whoop-them" in this case was clear to me as a figure of speech. If he hadn't mentioned "correction" or "prong" then I may have viewed it same way as you. But that wasn't my main point in my response.
Judging by what you just said here, it does appear to me that you aren't very familar with dogs other than pits, or PR (positive reinforcement). I don't mean to say that to ridicule you either. But please be honest and don't say you understand it all when you don't. You are talking like you do.
If you did know, you would know that you can teach a dog to loose leash walk by more than just the traditional way of using a prong/choke. Ini PR (Positive Reinforcement), one can use a head halter, or an anti-pulling harness such as the EasyWalk. These are just tools though. To teach a dog to loose leash walk you would take the dog for a walk... and as soon as he starts pulling you would stop. Wait for the dog to look back at you and for the leash to be loose. You would then click and treate. And then repeat. There are variations on this too.
I have walked pit bulls, german shepherds, rottweillers, etc... and this method works just fine. Pit bulls aren't special snowflakes when it comes to pulling. ALL dogs pull. You put a leash on an untrained dog and they pull. It is natural for them to only pull. Take a leash off, and they don't pull.