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

i love a halti! this is in fact, my third. they do break - or should i say, wear out. we use it more than once daily to take my girl for her walks and it turned her pulling from a mushing sled dog to a docile walking partner. it did take her a few walks to get used to it, but that's no problem now. anyway, it gets some serious use. if your dog pulls, you need to try a halti.

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.

Got this for our one and a half year old 40lb pit rescue. She doesn’t like it, but the pulling and dragging have all stopped! No longer do I have to yank her away from whatever blade of grass she’s decided needs to be taste-tested. It’s now considerably easier to control both of our dogs at once instead of being dragged in two different directions… even if she rubs her face all over any surface she can find when she has it on.I don’t believe this is as high quality as it could be with the price, but it does the job and it does it well. If your dog is reacting negatively, make sure to encourage them with lots of praise and treats to make wearing it a better experience for them!

The head collar received was not like pictured. There is no loop below the adjustment to attach the leash. Disappointed.

- STRETCH - NONE, just comes loose.- THICKNESS - THIN AND CHEAP! Dog chewed right through it in seconds.- COMFORT - NONE, very UNCOMFORTABLE and he constantly tried to get it off.This was recommended by trainers for my dog specifically, however, this product did not work for my dog as it was described. He did not stop pulling and was more determined to fight with me and get it off.It came loose on several occasions getting caught in his mouth and if it were not attached to his collar he would have run off - he is a brand new rescue. When it got caught in his mouth he began to chew on it, chewing right through the FIRST collar in a matter of seconds the third time wearing it. So the THICKNESS is far below par on my opinion and experience and is a poorly and cheaply made product.I’m not sure what “Stretch” this review is asking for. It down NOT stretch. It has a clip that adjusts for tightness under the chip which comes loose at the slightest pull from my dog. Hence the reason for it getting caught in his mouth.As for “Comfort”, he hated it. I thought that was to be expected and with a little time and experience he would learn to get used to it. This was m the case. He tried to get it off every chance he had, running his face in the ground and pawing at over and over every time he wore it.I returned the FIRST HALTI COLLAR for a replacement as he chewed all the way through the collar (in a matter of seconds, remember).I returned the SECOND HALTI COLLAR for a refund. When he tried to chew through the collar this time I caught it in time before he chewed through it entirely. Thank goodness I had a second leash attached to him (training) as I had to remove the HALTI completely and immediately. I did try to repair this second collar with Gorilla glue which worked well, but the very next day he almost chewed through the other side. This is when I gave up on this collar!