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I wanted to talk a little bit about collars and different devices that we use for walking our dogs.
because I've talked about those at length and the fact that you're stopping a behavior doesn't actually address the emotions that are behind it.
So I did want to mention, I will reiterate, research done by Anders Hallgren at the University of Oslo.
And what they found was over 90% of dogs who either, well, had tension put on the neck, had some type of neck trauma.
So we want to be really careful about what we're using with our dogs when we're trying to get them to walk properly.
The other thing I always like to mention with that is Sarah called and I said at a seminar that I went to with her that the average person walks about 27% of the speed of the average dog.
And So they start that pulling and there's some debate about it, but I do think opposition reflex is part of the problem where if I come up and I push on you, your natural response is to push back so I don't push you over.
And it's the same thing when the dogs, they start to pull and then they feel that tension and they start pulling harder.
And so we start pulling harder and it's just kind of a self-perpetuating situation.
The other thing, a lot of times you'll see somebody will put a prong collar or a shock collar on themselves and, you know, put tension on it or buzz it or something like that.
The other thing I want to keep in mind is... a dog's neck the skin there is a lot thinner than a person's and even oh well they've got the fur there well the problem with that is those prongs or the little uh contacts i don't know what to call them uh are designed to get through the fur so that they make contact with the skin so even though they have fur doesn't really do anything and again you know the dogs they've got uh the arteries in the neck, just like we do.
They've got the sympathetic nerve that has to do with eyesight is right there in the neck, the esophagus, obviously, thyroid glands, etc.
So there's a lot of stuff going on in this area, even if I talked about a couple of episodes ago, even if the prong collar is designed so it doesn't touch the esophagus, it's still got all this other stuff here, not to mention the actual spine and the muscles that are there.
I wanted to talk a little bit about collars and different devices that we use for walking our dogs.
because I've talked about those at length and the fact that you're stopping a behavior doesn't actually address the emotions that are behind it.
So I did want to mention, I will reiterate, research done by Anders Hallgren at the University of Oslo.
And what they found was over 90% of dogs who either, well, had tension put on the neck, had some type of neck trauma.
So we want to be really careful about what we're using with our dogs when we're trying to get them to walk properly.
The other thing I always like to mention with that is Sarah called and I said at a seminar that I went to with her that the average person walks about 27% of the speed of the average dog.
And So they start that pulling and there's some debate about it, but I do think opposition reflex is part of the problem where if I come up and I push on you, your natural response is to push back so I don't push you over.
And it's the same thing when the dogs, they start to pull and then they feel that tension and they start pulling harder.
And so we start pulling harder and it's just kind of a self-perpetuating situation.
The other thing, a lot of times you'll see somebody will put a prong collar or a shock collar on themselves and, you know, put tension on it or buzz it or something like that.
The other thing I want to keep in mind is... a dog's neck the skin there is a lot thinner than a person's and even oh well they've got the fur there well the problem with that is those prongs or the little uh contacts i don't know what to call them uh are designed to get through the fur so that they make contact with the skin so even though they have fur doesn't really do anything and again you know the dogs they've got uh the arteries in the neck, just like we do.
They've got the sympathetic nerve that has to do with eyesight is right there in the neck, the esophagus, obviously, thyroid glands, etc.
So there's a lot of stuff going on in this area, even if I talked about a couple of episodes ago, even if the prong collar is designed so it doesn't touch the esophagus, it's still got all this other stuff here, not to mention the actual spine and the muscles that are there.
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