| Actually Lisi, while I've no doubts about the potential benefits of a prong collar, I do have my strong doubts about the existence of that study...but I won't go into it just here. Maybe if you search the archives.
I'll further say that to my mind there's a right way and a wrong way for using any training aide and that the RIGHT TOOL for the RIGHT DOG used in the RIGHT WAY in the context of a WELL-THOUGHT-OUT training plan is the way to go. I say that having successfully used plain buckle collars, half-checks, full chokes (and my test for a trained dog is one I can control with a piece of sewing thread, literally, so you can imagine how much jerking I do) and haltis -- hey, I worked with what I had to hand -- an ounce of common sense and planning with a pinch of good timing is worth ten pounds of equipment.
As far as I am concerned, if a prong collar is the best thing to further a dog's training, it ought to be used, but no equipment (provided its proper use is understood) should be used or not used on the basis of dogma (political correctness if you please).  |