Little Monster
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I am having a difficult time transitioning my Cane Corso, Ickis, off of his prong/pinch collar. Does anyone have any suggestions? He is now 2 years old and has been on his pinch since before he was a year old and he is still wearing it. I can't take him out of the house without wearing it. Today was the perfect example. I took him too obedience class. It was indoors and there were multiple dogs. In order to have control of him, I HAD to use the pinch. I tried initially without it (using a leather slip) and he just drug me around. So, I put the pinch back on and he ended up being the best behaved dog in the class (literally). When I got home, my husband and I took our two trouble makers for a walk. I figured, he was so good in class, still tired from class and now we were on a familiar walk, he would be fine on a flat collar (It was actually a 1 inch martingale). Mind you, we have not walked him just on anything other than a pinch since we put him on the pinch over a year ago. He was pretty good initially until the distractions started up. We kept the pinch on him and used a pull tab hoping we could correct with it but keep him on the martingale. Two dogs were walking across the street and he was being unruly, so we put him back on the pinch. There was a man riding a bike towards us that he saw, and he was doing well, so we put him back on a martingale. The SECOND he heard the click of the clasp on his martingale, he took off a fast as he could running towards the man on the bike. Needless to say, he went back on the pinch. He is a completely different dog on a pinch than on a flat or martingale. He weighs almost as much as I do, and if it were me on the other end of his leash, and not my husband, I would be writing this post with road rash on my face! Let me say now that he is not aggressive, and actually quite the opposite. He loves people so much, they are his biggest distraction. He wants to run, jump, lean, lick and slobber on every person he sees. He is as hyper and charismatic as a Boxer - just 104 pounds. HELP ME!!