Choking at clutch time

At yesterday's obedience class, the instructor said that Cody was ignoring my "alpha-ness".

We worked on "wait" and recall ("come" when he's off playing and distracted). Since the instructor used Cody as the example, it was clear that Cody obeyed the instructor and not me. She showed me some tricks using a choke collar that will help enforce "alpha-ness" without hurting the dog. We've started using the choke collar today and it seems to work much better. At least my arm doesn't hurt as much from Cody's pulling.