Harness
How many of you use harnesses? I am wondering if it would be beneficial for my monsters...One big problem we have is our 70 lb mix slips out of her martingale collar...I never got the harness thing but I am wondering what can assist me in utter and total domination of the puppy household!!! (please excuse me...I took a loopy sleepy pill which brings out a very interesting part of me!)
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We use these harnesses for hiking:
http://www.ruffwear.com/Web-Master-trade-Harness?sc=2&category=16
and these harnesses for walks:
http://www.premier.com/pages.cfm?id=74
Both work well, the easy walk really helps stop them from pulling and prevents any injury to their necks from them pulling or stopping [Hilo AKA "lead butt" tend to just stop walking].
We use the Puppia harness. It breathes because it is a neoprene like mesh. It doesn't break any hair. And it is soft enough that he can't hurt himself.
Moto walks really well on a leash though. He stays right at my side unless he is about to poop. So I don't have much, if any, pulling issues.
Of course the morning after I write about how great Moto is being, he destroys my eyeglasses.
Aahh Shibas gotta love 'em
Tasha walks very well on leash, so I just use a martingale. Ronan, on the other hand, will choke himself silly. And I'm afraid he'll slip out of the martingale if he freaks - he's nearly done this twice now. So, he has a Premiere harness that he's used to, and we're getting him used to the harness that came with his backpack from ruffwear.
When Ronan was little, all I ever used on him was a harness because I worried about injury to his neck.
Oh man, Ahi ate my classes once too. That sux.
We used a harness with Ahi most of her puppyhood, same with Hilo.
I used to walk Tojo on a harness sometimes. He hated it soooo much. In fact, if he was being rambunctious, sometimes I would just put his harness on because then he's just stand there, not wanting to move because he has his harness on. I don't have it anymore, though. He chewed the buckles so I took it apart and make a nylon slip collar that we both like much better!
Tojo wrecked two pairs of glasses... then I got a pair from www.goggles4u.com for $30 and he hasn't touched them. I guess he knew they were cheap.