to stop pulling. My little crested baby might be small and scrawny but pulls like a train. I bought him a harness but it is not one designed to stop pulling and is making him sore from all the straining. I tend to walk 4 dogs at once a lot of the time and they are all good apart from him. He not only pulls forward but will suddenly cross in front and try and kill me. He goes on a couple lead with kizzi as he has taken a liking to her and tends to walk slightly better with her. I have seen a harness from the company of animals, it looks good and has netting at the front. Has anybody used one of these and found it ok or can anyone recommend something better.
Thanks
Sue

I use a harness (and a collar & a halti - all 3 at the same time LOL), but it's training that has stopped any pulling, the harness etc are just to give me control over lunges/exitable behaviour while training continues more than anything.
I used the 'tree method' - stand still, don't budge an inch if dog pulls, as soon as lead is slack praise, reward and walk (I 'marked' the lead going slack with 'walk', so now the dog knows 'walk'=slack lead).
It used to take ages to get anywhere to start with, but I'm so glad I was consistent with this, it's getting such a pleasure to walk my dog now (and that's with him at his 'kevin' stage). He loves pulling so to indulge him that pleasure occasionally he gets a 'Go Go Go' command and he can pull me up the hill - he'll stop as soon as I say 'wait' :) - but this pulling wasn't allowed untill slack-lead walking was reliably consistent.

> he gets a 'Go Go Go' command and he can pull me up the hill

cunning, happy dog, less sore legs :)

i bought this harness from pets at home, it has fluffy underarms, its quite effective, however i do agree that training will be your best option, find a local recognised trainer, either a school or your vet can tell you and go from there, its a small fortune but worth it,

Training all the way.  Different dogs respond to different equipment - and some don't respond to it at all.

Of my lot, the older 3 all respond well to the halti harness (Soli best, but that is with a lot of training).

But River will not respond to anything.  I've tried her on the halti harness; mekuti harness; one of those plain walking harnesses with the double d-ring at the top above the clip; the no-pull harness from PAH that deansami has described; halti headcollar; headcollar and harness combo; half-check collar; flat collar; basically every type, and none of them work.

The only thing that ahs worked to any degree with her is training - and that's working brilliantly.  I've done one walk with her so far (our walks are all off-lead so training times are thin on the ground), with about half an hour of on-lead time, and she went from a steam-train puller to doing 35 continuous paces (my paces) by my side.  For a dog that's been a steam-train for the 18 months I've had her and for the 14 months of her life before that, that's fantastic and shows the value of putting the work in.

Incidientally I'm using the 300 peck method with her - basically, take one step, if the dog doesn't pull, reward.  Then two steps, reward.  Three, reward.  So on and so forth up to 300.  If the dog pulls - back to one step, two, three and so on again.  With River I've been rewarding any walking with a slack lead - not focusing specifically on having her walk next to me, that just followed naturally as she realised what I was after.  I did a little bit of the same thing with Soli and it helped immensely, with her the headcollar/harness combo was particularly effective also (to my huge relief as she's one of those random lungy type dogs, and weighed 42kg when I first got her!).

wow im gonna try this one, iv tries various different training, i even went to classes that were recognised by the vet, i didnt feel like she was good at all, well to be honest if she was that good the group wouldnt have dissappeared from 12 to 4 lol

just a quick update. Someone gave me a halti to try, luckily was the right size and it worked. He doesnt pull and was happy to wear it no trying to get it off or anything. Although now he cries all the way to the park because he cant wait to get there lol.
He is a bit of a chewer and so far has managed to destroy one of my shoes, my mobile and the sky remote. He will take any washing off of the radiators and spread it all over the place. He is also very vocal and cries when on the lead and then barks whilst chasing my staff when off it. He loves Kizzi (staff) and follows her everywhere and sleeps on top of her if he can. She is not impressed but puts up with it bless her.

wow im glad to hear this, pleased to see the pulling stopped, i use a halti when im really stressed, lol, i have the same breed as you and were having very bad chewing habbits, hopefully it will stop SOON lol,