[alice's mommy]

I put Arthur on the prong just last week during class. I literally got a foot cramp from having to hold him back when the other dogs were moving around or getting close to him! He's about 70 pounds, so I was working up a bloody sweat during class. Anyways, the instructor fitted him with the prong and walked him by the other dogs to show how to correct him, praise him, etc.., and it worked wonders! He was much easier to handle in class and seemed to know the physical limitations of where he should be in regards to proximity to me.

I felt the same way, though, like I was giving up too soon. But when the other dogs are so close (small room, we don't have big places for classes) and so much SMALLER than Arthur, and when the other owners are all doing that annoying baby-talk to their dogs and not actually keeping control of them....well, it just made for a more difficult task for me to keep Arthur controlled. :)