Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Pros and Cons for TL;DR: PROS - Affordable price compared to harnesses. - plenty of options for colors for the whole pack - thorough and complete instructions - product arrive as promised. - immediately reduced or eliminated most if not all pulling during walks. - humane. CONS - My lab has a very short snout, and it did seem to restrict her from opening her mouth as much as she would have liked. She still can eat and drink water and play fetch with it on, so not a huge deal, but something to consider. A little backstory. Everyday I walk a 75 lbs German Shepard and a 70 lbs Labrador retriever. I'm a pretty large guy, so I never really took much offense to a little tugging from my dogs as puppies and that inevitably led to some horrible habits. I had resigned myself to getting a nice shoulder workout every time I took them out. We had been using full body harnesses that clipped on the back, but all that did was give my dogs more leverage. I tried training and patience, but was at the end of my leash. (HA). I am inherently opposed to choker collars because it's not my dogs fault I was a bad owner all along. Enter the Gentle Leader. I'll admit, the product isn't intuitive out of the box, but the instructions and DVD clarify everything very well. Getting it on and keeping it on my dogs was tough until I got the fit right, but once I found it they couldn't shake it or paw it off. It's recommended you ease your dogs into it by giving them a reward while wearing it repeatedly. Well, my dogs favorite thing is their walk, so I used it as their reward the first time they wore them. After about 100 yards of shaking and fidgeting with it, they got over the nose strap. We came across numerous children, dogs, and cars. I didn't even get a pull, let alone the usual hard yank that would accompany those occurrences without a Gentle Leader. This immediately took my dogs from D grade walkers to B+. Hopefully we can make it to A very soon. Honestly one of the best purchases I have ever made on Amazon, just behind my on sale $17 XL furminator.