Prong collar, 100%

Use it correctly and use it to teach. Sizing and placement are extremely important.

Walk with prong all the time unless in their harnesses. They learn their limits and yes at times might still pull but they know enough not to harm themselves. More important is the owners end of the leash with a prong collar, steady pressure pull when you need cooperation never yank the leash.

Biko would choke himself horribly w/o the prong collar.

The only thing I use for training is a "choke collar". For the love of god, if the dog is choking you're doing it wrong. For me they are an invaluable tool that yields great results. You don't use it forever, just like any of the other training collars and harnesses. I still use it when in the forest as a backup should a harness clip break. But my dogs are all capable of walking politely on a standard plastic buckle nylon collar without a problem.

If you're at this point I suggest finding a trainer who uses that collar confidently. Not harshly or angrily, and not meekly or submissively. With the right setup and consistency, I would say 95% of dogs (yeah, even huskies) can be taught to walk comfortably (maybe not perfectly) on collar within 14 days.

In short: No, you're not bad for wanting to use one.

I recently started using a Martingale Collar. It seems to have the same effect as the choke collar- which I used and thought helped.

Wow thank you all for the advice! I had never heard of the martingale so I will look into that too. It looks like I will most likely try out the prong collar on him.. I just have this horrible image of him getting stabbed in the neck by that thing

Update:
This morning I went youtube crazy looking up leash training tricks plus a few Cesar Millan videos. There is actually a video of him rollerblading (first time w/o walking the dogs) THREE huskies. He got control of them but they still pulled. I don't know what his point was.. Anyway, I used what I learned on Beau. I opened the front door and just stood there. He bolted and became irritated when I wouldn't move. I wanted him to calm down before we walked. After about ten minutes passed of him whining and crying he finally sat down. I proceeded outside where he immediately pulled - I stopped. He cried and finally quit pulling. I began to walk, he pulled, I stopped. This continued for about an hour. He was crying so loud it was echoing through out our apartment complex. You'd swear he was being tortured! lol He kept looking up at me, "Woo, woo, woo, woo!" as if saying "What is wrong with you, let's move it lady!" He seemed to get more irritated than anything. He also attempted to pull out of his collar numerous times. So now, I am sporting lovely rope burns on my hand. *Sigh*.. I will let you all know how it goes when I get the prong!

And let me add that his crying was simply because I wasn't moving lol. I am currently using a good ol' fashion nylon buckle collar (which he likes to slip out of).

Hey all, first post:)

I may be a little unorthodoxed in how I keep Keeonah at my heal when we walk, but I think sometimes creative routes are the only way to handle Huskies:P

Keeonah has always responded really well to positive reinforcement training, vs a swift reminder with a collar, and I have taught her two different commands using her favorite treats (I use her favorites because taking a good walk is not an easy thing, thus the better she does the better the reward) for when we are walking, depending on the behavior i am trying to correct.

If she straggles back or off to the side and wants to sniff or stay put i quickly say heel-up (kinda sounds like "hupp!" cause i say it fast) hold the treat a couple inches in front of my left knee. She smells, and trots right up like a horse after the carrot, i say good heel and give her the treat mid stride. I am now at the point where i actually gift her the treat every third or 4th time, and give verbal praise in between.

For lots of pulling, i say "keeonah, cool-down", and she will stand in place, looking over her shoulder. i walk up to meet her with the treat in the same place as for heel-up and give it to her as we start walking again. After the treat we will usually get about 15-20 yards before she goes off on another tangent, and i get to correct again.

She catches up better than she cools down, but i blame that on instinct:P

I use a prong collar. Verry effective, and the dog does there own correction with it. they only hit the end of the leash hard about once. The prongs change the game verses a choke collar, dogs will choke themselves to death! Especially if they see something that gets them super excited. So it really doesnt do us any good since we own a pulling breed. But i worked with Sadie on heal "mind you it was with the prong collar" and now she wont have the leash pulled tight. I only need it to get in and out of the dog park or when we go inside stores. Just my 2 cents.. Good luck with whatever you choose, but training will be your biggest weapon.

I have used body harness and now use a choke collar with a longer lead....

I had him on the harness and he pulls and literally broke the 110lbs lead through the wheel handle so choke collar.

It has totally stopped the pulling and his random Husky or chasing animals leaves blowing etc to almost non existence

He realizes the collar is around his neck. But for walking purposes I want to go back to harness only for the reason of the lead getting caught up and under his legs.

update later...?

I only used a pronge "choke" caller. Was raised using them, our personal trainer uses them, and I have NEVER had bad results. I hve yed the from tiny dogs to giant schnuazers. I love them.

Speaking of "choke" or "slip" collars, do you not have a problem with the long fur jamming it up?

I have an issue with Neos not staying where ilt is supposed too. It either hangs in his fur or gets stuck on his nylon collar. Ive tried taking links out to make it smaller and it still does it

Appa had a chain slip collar when we got him, and it would bind in his fur all the time. No matter how we put it on, it wouldn't "release," it would just tighten and stay tight. He's good now, so it doesn't really matter, I was just wondering if there's some trick I just didn't know about.

When they do that, I would give it a quick jerk. Not jerk the dog lol, mire like a whipping action with the leash. It worked most of the time, but still moments where you just have to undo it yourself

I've not used the choke collar on my Husky, because he walks so well on the leash, but I do use it on both my Dalmatians. I would never walk them without it! I've not had any bad experiences with it. I guess if you use it properly and not in a harmful manner, than it's ok. The collar usually is loose on them, the only time it tighten's up is when they misbehave (and I step in right away to calm them down and correct the situation, so it's only tight for a few moments).

If Hayden did need such a collar, I would probably go with the prong like everyone else, just for the sake of his fur getting caught inside of the choke collar would probably be painful, like Riley mentioned. I've never used one before, so I can't say how effective they are, but if so many people use them, I guess they gotta be good!

Mine still pull on the prong collars, I use the one with the caps on the prongs, IDK if that's why.. I tried sizing it correctly but it always moves around..

If you're having to size the collar down so much to make it stay and it's getting to the point where it's too tight you probably need to move down in prong size. Rodeo is using one now because walking like a civilized animal is a concept foreign to him... we have the smaller prong which works fine because it's sized just right for him. I tried another one I had (for Mickey) and the prongs were too big for it to function properly.