HALTI Optifit Headcollar - To Stop Your Dog Pulling on the Leash. Adjustable, Reflective and Lightweight, with Padded Nose Band. Dog Training Anti-Pull Collar for Medium Dogs (Size Medium)

My dog used to be un-walkable and now we enjoy nightly walks and I barely have a finger on the leash. The week getting used to it was rough (ruff?) but it’s so much better it was worth the transition period

While this doesn't work for my girl due to her being over sensitive, this is a great TEMPORARY tool to help your dog learn not to pull, or a full time tool if you have a service dog and need the feedback. It's highly adjustable and i think i prefer this over the gentle leader in appearance and with the reflectiveness. I think it's also good if you have dogs that slip out. I will be keeping mine to donate or use on a future dog simply because i suffer from chronic illness and various other things where having more feedback on what my dog is doing is helpful when im not directly looking.Please keep in mind that:A tool does not fix a dog's habits. a leash, a collar, a harness, etc are unnatural. you must STILL teach a dog loose leash walking with rewarding them with high value treats (like hot dogs) whilst luring them to your side even with a training tool like a head halter. some dogs will find a head halter extremely aversive - do not force it. please seek out a trainer that is cpdt trained and ideally LIMA at minimum or force-free/fear-free trainers that can help you with pulling and other issues.other notes:your dog should not be using this if they are reactive and lunge/pull. use it only in non reactive settings. you will damage your dog's neck.this should be loose but a good fit. this is NOT a muzzle, your dog can still eat and bite with this. no muzzle should fully shut a dog's mouth anyway unless it is absolutely necessary by a professional (vet/groomer) muzzles should have pant room.you should not be shoving this on your dog's face (my own mistake which made her dislike this even more) for even a try on session, adjust them to it for several weeks before trying it on. this is especially true if your dog is emotionally sensitive.PLEASE do not pull your dog when wearing this, and look out for discomfort signals (whale eye, lip licking, ears pulled back, trying to rub it off, running away.) and do not force your dog to wear something they clearly don't like. respect your dog when they show you they are not okay with something.

I bought this product about 4.5 months ago and genuinely waited to review it so I could see how it held up and performed over time. To begin, I just bought a new one which is good and bad. Bad because it ended up tearing (see below), but good because I liked it enough to buy it again. A quick summary: There are definitely some noteworthy cons, but almost all of them can be avoided with PROPER use of the product and making sure it fits correctly. With proper use, this is a wonderful tool.Pros: I'm a ~175 lb man with a dog who is only about 60lb, but a pit/aussie mix who's strength is only exceeded by his relentless energy and desire to chase everything from animals to kids to airplanes. This made walks with a regular collar and even a full body harness quite exhausting and stressful. Before buying it, I had tried a million things to stop the pulling with no luck. With the Halti, walks are MUCH more manageable.Although he still tried to pull (see cons), the strength with which he's able to pull is SIGNIFICANTLY less than before. The pulling is now more of an annoyance at the beginning of a walk, rather than a full body workout. With even the slightest resistance, he can't pull very hard before it becomes uncomfortable for him. So in a sense, it does what it advertises in a roundabout way.Another pro is that because the Halti attaches to his face instead of his neck or body, it is MUCH easier to redirect his attention when he becomes overstimulated by something. Instead of using a traditional collar or harness and pulling his body away while his head is completely turned and still focused on the stimulus, the Halti allows you to physically turn his head away from the stimulus and get it out of his eyesight. This in COMBINATION with a variety of other training techniques can become extremely valuable in making walks much more manageable with a reactive dog.Cons: The Halti is not magic. You can't buy a $13 product expecting it to just magically make your dog a dream on leashed walks...if you do, you'll be severely disappointed and still frustrated. This however should be expected. Additionally to be expected, it takes quite a bit of work to get your dog to be comfortable with this foreign object on its face. It takes TIME and PATIENCE. You have to work hard to develop a positive association with the Halti by continuing to treat while first introducing it to them, then resting it on their snout while treating, then clipping it for very short amounts of time, then longer amounts of time, then short walks on leash down a hallway, then longer walks back and forth, all while treating and slowly reducing spacing out the treats. If you don't have the patience to work with your dog in this manner, you will never get it on the dog for a walk, and you'll have wasted your money.The clip on this product that can be adjusted to fit your dogs face is lacking in strength and should be improved. At the end of almost every long walk, it has become a little bit looser than when I started. It doesn't become loose enough on a walk to reduce it's effectiveness, but it IS sort of a nuisance. Before every walk I have to make sure I adjust the clip to the correct position in case it got loose on the last.---SUGGESTION: set it to the correct position for your dogs face, take it off, and mark that spot on the Halti with a silver sharpie. In reality, resizing the collar takes all of about 2 seconds, and if you already have the spot marked on the Halti to the optimal position, any extra time it takes to get it ready and on your dog before a walk is pretty much negligent.Lastly, but possibly most important: If the Halti is not PERFECTLY snug around your dogs nose, it can cause quite a bit of problems.The lesser problem is that if it is too loose and you're not 100% aware, your dog will be able to paw it off of his/her nose and you'll have to stop to tighten it and put it back on. Luckily, if this happens, you have the backup strap that should always be connected to their regular collar, so your dog still won't be able to go anywhere.The more significant problem, in my opinion, is that if its even a little too loose and your dog pulls directly AWAY from you with his face towards you (imagine him backing up away from you), the bottom strap of the Halti that goes underneath the chin, can get pulled up around their jaw and stuck in their mouth pulling at the back of their jowels. This can be pretty traumatic for the dog and damaging for the Halti. The first time this happened, my dogs molars actually tore the strap halfway through. It has held up for the past couple months even being torn halfway through, but this is the reason I am finally purchasing a new one.Additionally, please make sure the Halti is tight enough around their nose so that it does not injure their eyes. If it is too loose, the circumference becomes larger than their snout, and pulling on the leash can cause the Halti to move up and put pressure on the bottom of their eyes. Once again, this is easily avoided with proper use.