It's been a busy year and apart from genuinely not having any extra capacity to process any new things about dog behaviour, hilariously, the more I learn about dog training and dog reactivity, the more insecure and inconsistent I have become as a dog handler. I regularly google weird dog-training questions, about prong collar use especially, because I find it extremely hard to stick to my personal choices and training goals while there are alternative ideas and opinions circling around me or even directed at me. I have stopped using the prong collar, for brief periods of time, probably 3 or 4 times this past year. I contemplated getting a no-pull harness probably 100 times before coming to the exact same conclusion that it is definitely not a suitable option for Pierre (it's been tried before). I've read sensational, questionable "articles" about how all dog collars irreversibly damage dog tracheas, etc, etc. Wading through information spewed by breed snobs, ...