The Canny Company
The Canny Collar is a Tracie SmartPak Pick!
You've heard me talk about the Canny Collar many times - and I convinced Smartpak of how great it is, so they now carry it and I'd love to see more folks making walking on a leash a pleasure instead of a tugging contest.
Canny Collar Conquers Again!
Imagine how pleased I was when Sheila in East Hampton got the hang of the canny collar and now LOVES it! She was challenged by it at first - anything new can be hard to adjust to - but she followed my instructions and now she is a big fan (as is Oliver, her Standard Poodle) and she's even trying to convert perfect strangers (hey, welcome to my world!!)
"Tracie - Thanks for your email about the Canny Collar. I must tell you that I find it to be very improved over the Gentle Leader. Oliver even lets me put it on him without having to run after him around the kitchen island. I've been telling every dog owner that I see about it - especially when I see their dogs dragging them down the street!"
The Canny Company (www.cannyco.com)
Wish You Could Walk Your Dog Instead Of The Other Way Around?
The Canny Collar (www.cannyco.com) has reached our shores from England, where they can now use this simple, kind collar to control their dogs on a leash. All these years after Barbara Woodhouse made the word "walkies" famous, our dog-loving British neighbors have made Canny Collar a household name because they are actually able to now have their "walkies" without their arms being pulled out of the socket!
Fast-forward to England's most famous trainer today, Victoria Stillwell of the TV show "Me or the Dog" (you probably also saw her as a judge on "America's Greatest Dog"). Her staff has made calls several times to Canny Collar headquarters, requesting an "emergency delivery" of a Canny Collar while thy were filming an especially hard-to-walk pooch. So if one of the best dog trainers around turns to a Canny Collar in times of need, what are you waiting for??
Tracie's youngest, strongest adopted Weimeraner, Teddy Bear, no longer has the upper hand when she has to have him on a leash (thankfully not so often - Vermont is heaven for off-leash romps) because the Canny Collar works to turn the leash into a gentle control mechanism like reins on a horse. If you want to see videos of an instant transformation from pulling dog to mannerly one, go to the special Cannny Collar page (JACK PUT LINK) right here. When owner Sean found out how enthusiastic Tracie was about his product, he asked whether he could become one of her website sponsors and guess what that means??
"The Canny Collar is well-known and well-loved in England. I predict that it's going to take off like a rocket in the U.S.because we like quick effective solutions and the Canny Collar makes anyone into an automatic "dog whisperer!" as soon as you try it, you'll cause a ripple effect and tell five more dog loving friends to get a Canny Collar themselves.If you have any doubts, take a peek here at some of the testimonials that British customers have gone out of their way to send in to the company."
—Tracie (Read the British Testimonials. PDF, 15KB)
Wish You Could Walk Your Dog Instead Of The Other Way Around?
The Canny Collar (www.cannyco.com) has reached our shores from England, where they can now use this simple, kind collar to control their dogs on a leash. All these years after Barbara Woodhouse made the word "walkies" famous, our dog-loving British neighbors have made Canny Collar a household name because they are actually able to now have their "walkies" without their arms being pulled out of the socket!
Fast-forward to England's most famous trainer today, Victoria Stillwell of the TV show "Me or the Dog" (you probably also saw her as a judge on "America's Greatest Dog"). Her staff has made calls several times to Canny Collar headquarters, requesting an "emergency delivery" of a Canny Collar while thy were filming an especially hard-to-walk pooch. So if one of the best dog trainers around turns to a Canny Collar in times of need, what are you waiting for??
Tracie's youngest, strongest adopted Weimeraner, Teddy Bear, no longer has the upper hand when she has to have him on a leash (thankfully not so often - Vermont is heaven for off-leash romps) because the Canny Collar works to turn the leash into a gentle control mechanism like reins on a horse. If you want to see videos of an instant transformation from pulling dog to mannerly one, go to the special Cannny Collar page (JACK PUT LINK) right here. When owner Sean found out how enthusiastic Tracie was about his product, he asked whether he could become one of her website sponsors and guess what that means??
ABOUT THE CANNY COMPANY: I have finally found a collar that makes it non-stress and non-adversarial to have my dogs on a leash. My dogs are rarely on leashes - I have the ultimate privilege of being able to go on long walks with them entirely off-leash. However, there are times when a leash is necessary - when leaving the gorgeous meadows and woods to get back into the car, when going to the vet, and so forth - and until the Canny Collar I dreaded having to put all three of them on leashes. I had whiplash, arm-out-of-socket and aching-hand experiences that were certainly not befitting a supposed dog expert!
I had tried everything on the market - everything except the prong collars which dig a series of metal spikes into the dog's neck when he pulls. First of all, those collars are entirely ineffectual. Am I only one who has taken note that the dogs are pulling for all they are worth, despite the obvious pain of metal spikes digging into their necks? (How can people not be ashamed to go out in public with such apparent torture equipment on their dogs, especially smooth-coated ones like Boxers, any of the Bully breeds, or Weimeraners like mine??)
I tried the Halti and found it to be a flimsy little strap of nylon that could crank my dog's neck to the side but in process the whole contraption shifted and dug into his eye. It didn't make walking a pleasure but something I hated. Same thing with the Gentle Leader - I have two of them and did say in THE DOG BIBLE that they were the best walking control tool out there (and they were until now) but I have never been truly convinced of the design. The leash clips beneath the chin so when the dog pulls - and he does - you have to catch that moment and crank his head to the side but since you're pulling from underneath, once again the straps wind up smushing into the dog's eye. And I always had resistance to the counter-intuitive design of having to adjust the neck strap really really tight and leave the nose loop loose - so often I would feel it only fair to loosen up the neck strap a bit so it didn't seem to be strangling the dog, but then the Gentle Leader didn't work as well.
Along came the Canny Collar - straight from being a huge hit in Great Britain where it was "born," the brain child of a Scottish "horse whisperer" who adapted the Canny Collar from a bit-less bridle he had designed for very sensitive horses. The Canny Collar is light but substantial, a washable black nylon collar that is comfortably padded and just buckles around the neck. The brilliance of it is the small nylon strap that slips over the dog's nose and then runs through guides on the collar itself. Your leash clips the two ends together - so the control is behind the dog's head, not from beneath his chin. It's like holding two reins attached to the nose loop - or like driving a pony in a cart. It takes no more than finger pressure on the leash to stop the dog's forward motion - no yanking, tugging, head-cranking. Just the laws of physics that horse trainers have used for centuries, scaled down for the dog. Boy oh boy - am I relieved that now when I do have to put my guys on leashes in public that I look like a star, walking such calm, well-mannered dogs. My secret, of course, is the life-altering Canny Collar.
It makes life better on walks for you and your four-legged friend.
