Cesar MillanPack Leader Collar™ - Training Collar of The Dog Whisperer (Medium, Grey)

This is the second dog that I trained with the Cesar collar.Old vs. New style:I have used both. I did like the old style because it was easy to put on. I snapped it on. This one slides over his head and has to be adjusted. This is NOT an issue. I like how this is made better. It slides over his head easy. It stays in place. There is a separate collar at the top that is what controls the dog. The neck part is ONLY to hold the collar in place. It is the only purpose of the neck part.Size:The dog I am using this on now is a Doberman/Pitbull mix 6 month old pup. He has a little Australian Shepherd and a little Great Pyrenes in him. He is close to 50 pounds now. I went with the medium. I need to adjust it to make it the smallest. It is still a little too big but it works EXTREMELY well.My experiences with the Cesar Collar:My first dog, Jasper was a high energy Pitbull/lab. He was a puller. He didn't respond to dog treats while walking. Not even high value treats. Through different training classes and watching Cesar, I learned the collar was supposed to be high on the neck. I could never keep it that high all of the time. Finally, we broke down and bought the Cesar collar. This was the OLD style of Cesar collar. My dog became an excellent walker. For me, The Cesar collar was only TEMPORARY. Once I applied what I learned in classes and learned from watching Cesar, I was able to remove the collar. Once he learned to walk and I removed the collar, he walked BEAUTIFULLY. People were constantly commenting how well he walked. The original collar was a GAME CHANGER for Jasper.Move on to our 6 month old pup, Alfie. Alfie can be an excellent walker when he wants to be. Most of the time he is. He can also try to lead. If I snap his collar he becomes stressed. This builds into tension until he is doing zoomies in the middle of our walk. The weird thing about this Alfie is he LOVES to walk what I called "Free Leash walking". I put him on a long leash. I hold the leash in my right hand. he walks beautifully through the neighborhood. He doesn't realize that I have him on a leash. Treats do help a lot. He stays at my side the whole time. If I pick up the leash close to his collar, he starts to lead and pull slightly. I drop the leash and he falls right back in place. I was hoping to train him to walk on a leash by using this method. It didn't work.I tried a harness. Personally, I felt like I was managing him and my pup was the pack leader. I never can see him walking without the harness one day. To me, a harness is a lifetime commitment. I know if I train him to walk properly, I will rarely snap his leash or collar. It is getting him to that point though. I needed help keeping the collar in place. I started considering the Cesar collar.What concerns me with Alfie is his unpredictability. He most often walks beautiful. He can pull light but will fall into place when I stop. About once a week, he can become very difficult and do zoomies, buck like a horse and try to jump all over me. If I bring his collar up high, he doesn't like that much either and I can get the same response. He is getting stronger. I need to take care of the issue. A couple weeks ago, enough was enough, I was tired of the unpredictability. I bought the Cesar collar. It sat in my basement for 2 weeks. I didn't need it. I didn't think it would work. I was also reading so so reviews on the new style of the collar. Finally, after more than one unpredictable episode in one week, I pulled the Cesar collar out and put it on him.It was an instant game changer. I am now pack leader. Whereas when the collar is at the base of his neck, he didn't pay much attention to a snap. Now he can feel the collar with a light snap. Now, he is walking by my side. A small snap and he knows he has to straighten out. I have only been using it a few days now. I am finding great success in training my second dog with it. Our walks are becoming more peaceful.5 stars:I can't recommend this enough. I work hard training my dogs. Alfie does magic shows, he bows and plays cornhole. The walking though is a different story. We both want to walk but each of us want to walk our own way. It was a power struggle between the two of us. The Cesar collar helps keep the collar in place; therefore, making me the pack leader. Love it.

I think it might just be the conformation of his neck, but this was not effective in keeping the upper collar position high on his neck. The quality seemed excellent, so it’s probably just his structure.

This collar works best when the straps are adjusted equally on both sides for retention. When the collar is in place, the slip is held behind the ears properly.

The quality is really good and it does help on walk it just still slips down their necks after a while and I have to push it back up. It does work and helps with the pulling they want to do. Reduces that.

I apologize to all that shared their bad experiences with these collars: I really should have listened to you!Well, here is my negative experience:The sizing was totally wrong even though I carefully measured our dogs and used the sizing and information guide (which was almost impossible to find on Amazon). For reference, I ordered medium for our catahoula/whippet mix adult dog (the fit was okay but he could have worn small) and large for our lab/hound mix puppy (I don’t think even extra-large would properly fit her). Both collars were shopworn, dirty, covered in pet hair. And one collar had a significant flaw in the stitching, so the mesh lining was coming off. When I tried the medium collar on our catahoula, the flimsy plastic clips did NOT hold securely and opened with the slightest amount of pressure (from me), allowing the collar to slip right off our dog. Please do not waste your time, effort and money - these things are tremendously overpriced, unsafe and poorly made with cheapest materials.I immediately requested a return and refund, thank you Amazon.

I have had this item for about 2 months and I has already ripped fabric and stitching on the main pieces and the clips do not stay locked. I check it every time I go out and pull hard to make sure it is locked in place but it does not always stay locked. If it wasn’t for the slip lead my dog would’ve taken off several times by now. It works when it stays locked but the material is cheap.

We have a 3 year old Rottweiler, and have tries all kinds of collars and harnesses. The dog is very strong and it has been a struggle walking her especially if she sees a squirrel or a cat. Put this collar on her and she pulled a couple times and instantly stopped. Now when I put the collar on her she doesn't even try it. Super easy to make corrections with a quick gentle tug if she loses focus. Would highly recommend for anyone having issues with dogs pulling or losing focus. For reviews complaining about the weak harness clamps, I could see them being an issue if you were using the double collar as a harness (connecting a lease directly to the back connection) if you use the slip leash as designed the only pressure on the collar is keeping the slip lease high on the dogs neck to easily control the head, there's really not a lot of stress on the double collar straps.

I got it for my service dog in training. She responds well and makes working with her.