Why You don't need Prong- or E-collars!
If people REALLY can't control large powerful dogs with a harness or regular collar, there is the slip lead with 2 stoppers as an emergency tool.
So, the argument "we need prongs for safety" doesn't fly. Not for 1 inch even does that fly. I've personally maneuvered a 50 kilo male, intact Estrela Mountain Dog through a narrow street with dogs fence-barking left and right, and that giant male on my leash trying his utmost to get to them.
All I had on him was a slip leash, and it WORKED (it was an emergency situation, the dog had gotten away from his owner who was on crutches, and he couldn't get the animal back himself for that reason).
But it's an example that even skinny little women like me can handle big angry dogs with nothing more than a slip lead. No prong, no shock collar needed. And if I can do that with THAT beast of a dog... pretty much everyone can.
By the way: Contrary to popular opinion, dogs can pull like crazy even with prongs on, as Tom Davis found out the hard way with a Boerboel once - he literally landed flat on his ass when that dog wanted to go for that other dog:
