Unsolicited advice makes me prickly...

So today's Darwin's second puppyclass, and on puppyclass days, I drive Tora-kun to work and then take Darwin to the park for a nice long walk.  There's an off-leash area there, but they don't let puppies under 4 months in, so we've got another month to wait.  Anyway, I was walking him, and... okay, he pulls on the leash.  He does.  It's a bad habit, and we have to break it.  We tried getting a head harness, but Darwin HATED it, and was having no part of it.  So, I just have to work with him, and part of that it taking him out on his leash more often.

So, we're walking, and there's this guy walking his dog, who is a pretty burly-looking Akita mix, but he wanted to say hello to Darwin, and I was cool with that, because the dog was pretty laid-back despite being the size of a horse.  Darwin, being a baby still, got excited and started pulling.

Guy:  "You know, the pulling is just going to get worse."
Me:  "Yeah, I know.  We've been working with him on it."
Guy:  "You know what you need to do -- this works like a charm..."
Me:  "Oh? What's that?"
Guy:  "You get a simple choke collar, and put it on him, like so"  *demonstrates with his own dog, which is wearing, I notice, a prong collar, designed to pinch the dog if he pulls*  "...And when he pulls, the pressure will make him back off."
Me:  "...Huh.  Well, that sounds like it'd work, yep."

....

I am not putting a CHOKE COLLAR on my THREE MONTH OLD PUPPY.  I mean, REALLY.  WTF? 

PUPPY. 

PUPPY! 

HE'S A PUPPY!

And he doesn't pull THAT badly.  He just kind of... tugs.  Not to the point where he starts gagging.  And he's getting BETTER with it.

Honestly.  Choke collar.  Idiot.

EDIT: My horoscope for the day, no joke: "If you are short with people, it could just mean you need more sleep."

Y'all don't even know how much I'm laughing.