"When he's outside walking, EVERYTHING fucking smells interesting. It's difficult to take him for a walk, because we have to stop for every pile of bird shit, every pebble, every blade of grass. Sometimes he gets it out of his system and the just trots along right beside us, leash nice and loose. I give him treats for that but damn if it can't be annoying."
Right now the only correction my pup is getting is the leave it correction, he is not allowed to pick up anything in his mouth as this is something that can save his life. If I didn't correct him he would already have been in for a bowel obstruction as he tries to eat every object he sees. Prong collar works the best for getting the point across that they don't get to mouth it unless I let them have it. When they try to mouth something jerk on the leash and tell them leave it, every jerk gets harder until they walk away, do not pull them away make them walk away, even if you have to make them yelp from the prong collar.