A pinch collar does less harm to a dog than any other type of “choke” training collar.
It works based on the inborn nature of a puppy to behave when its mother gently squeezes its neck.
*Most* dogs, when x-rayed, display cervical damage from “regular” training collars.
[the “corrective yanking” does the damage...even when done with flat “no choke” collars]
A pinch collar requires NO yanking.
Just the tiny bit of acupressure applied changes the dog’s behavior.
The person with that dog is displaying -responsible- behavior because NO dog is “bullet proof” and a dog off lead in public is a disaster waiting to happen.
Oddly enough, the only dog who ever “bit” me was Border Collie.
No pit, Dobe, GSD, Rott, Mastiff [or any other breed, extant] has ever even so much as raised a lip at me.
The only issue I have with that photo is that the owner does *not* have the collar properly placed or shortened to the correct length.
Pinch collars, like pit bulls, LOOK scary; therefore everyone who owns one must be a drug-dealing toothless redneck hillbilly trailer-trash no-account backwoods inner city ghetto thug.
Yup.