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I'm just curious as to what everyone's take is on a harness vs. a collar, and why you use one or the other?
I use harnesses for all of my dogs. I found that, on a collar, Ryou and Kuso would both pull and pull and pull, and just choke themselves no matter what I did. On a harness, however, they don't pull nearly as much, I have much better control, and when I ask of them to slow down, they generally do. They also don't choke themselves as bad when they do pull.
Amaya also would pull really bad in a collar, but never as bad as Ryou and Kuso, and in a harness, she's an absolute doll, except when she wants to chase after objects blowing down the street! I find that, when this happens, I can easily pull her back onto the sidewalks without yanking her or choking her, and she isn't hardly effected by this. When I'd pull her back onto the sidewalk when she had a collar on, it damaged her, even though I wasn't meaning to hurt or scare her, but just keep her from getting run over.
I use just a regular step in harness. I prefer Lupine, because they've got neat designs, and they're guaranteed, even against chewing. So that harness Kuso chewed up last week will eventually get sent back in so I can get a new one. haha. Until then, separate walks, and/or parents' house to run around in their nice, big backyard.
I use harnesses for all of my dogs. I found that, on a collar, Ryou and Kuso would both pull and pull and pull, and just choke themselves no matter what I did. On a harness, however, they don't pull nearly as much, I have much better control, and when I ask of them to slow down, they generally do. They also don't choke themselves as bad when they do pull.
Amaya also would pull really bad in a collar, but never as bad as Ryou and Kuso, and in a harness, she's an absolute doll, except when she wants to chase after objects blowing down the street! I find that, when this happens, I can easily pull her back onto the sidewalks without yanking her or choking her, and she isn't hardly effected by this. When I'd pull her back onto the sidewalk when she had a collar on, it damaged her, even though I wasn't meaning to hurt or scare her, but just keep her from getting run over.
I use just a regular step in harness. I prefer Lupine, because they've got neat designs, and they're guaranteed, even against chewing. So that harness Kuso chewed up last week will eventually get sent back in so I can get a new one. haha. Until then, separate walks, and/or parents' house to run around in their nice, big backyard.