Outdoornut74

My Border collie used to pull awful with a regular collar to the point I was dealing with a lot of the same behaviors that you have mentioned. I started using a harness like the one you mentioned also with 2 points that I can attach a lead (one in front and one on top plus a handle). I started working along the same steps that waffles mentioned with the harness and the leash clipped in front. In the house, in the yard, and on quiet roads. As soon as he would start pulling, the harness automatically would have him turned facing in my direction where we would try to reinforce "heel" and "sit/stay". He still gets excited at the beginning and end of the walk because he knows where we are but his manners while walking have improved 1000%. Early on when he would start to pull, I would turn and walk the other direction with "heel" commands so it made him have to be engaged with me because he really wasn't sure where exactly we were going next.

Here is the harness that I have for Ace. He doesn't seem to mind it and I have found it great with helping train how to act on a leash with the front attachment point. It has a front and top attachment (with a handle to grab on to). He loves the water and is in and out of the creek by the dog park and there hasn't been any issues with rusting or any degradation of the harness. I've thrown it in the wash a couple times and it's held up great so far. There are a lot of similar variations that I've found on Amazon since I bought this originally.

Ace is doing so much better and I am grateful I was able to stumble across this forum. We went through 2 days of chicken,rice, and pumpkin exclusively. Yesterday we took one serving of the mixture and split it into 2 servings and mixed half a cup of his normal food in with each serving to see how his system reacted. Thankfully, everything stayed solid!!! Today, we are going to 1 cup of normal food for his 2 feedings today to see how he reacts.

This is my first post here and thanks to the above advice, my 1 year old border has finally gotten over some incredibly soft stool. I never thought that the rain might be because we were feeding him too much food. We've dinner the CRaP diet for a day and I'm going to start weening him back to normal food starting tomorrow.