Boy, do I feel stupid. Somehow I came to this original post from a different place and didn't see the other posters comments when I suggested the Gentle Leader. Like it was an original idea, LOL. Shoulda known that all my smart friends from TOTV would have gotten there before me. Oops.
Anyway, in all my years of dog training and therapy dogs I did have one dog that never quite figured out that I was Alpha. He was respectful about 95% of the time but he always thought we were equals. He was extremely smart, walked appropriately on lead MOST of the time, but if he thought he needed to go see something he'd pull me. This rarely happened because he was very well trained but it did happen on occassion and when a Great Pyrenees has an idea you don't share, believe me you know about it. And because it only happened, oh, maybe once a year it always took me off guard. So, the question is, Was that dog really leash trained?
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