For a more comfortable and secure option while walking your dog, check out how to turn a regular slip lead into a harness lead.
The benfits of using a lead this way are that the dog is more secure and less likely to slip its head out of the regular neck lead, which could potentially lead to dangerous scenarios like running away, running into the street, chasing another animal or any other undesirable altercation.
A dog that tends to pull can hurt itself on a neck lead if the person walking does not yet know how to safely and gently lead the dog and prevent from pulling.
Fastening the harness this way also gives the dog a slight "correction" when tugging on the lead, which is effective in gaining our dogs attention to focus on us, and not on pulling in other directions when they are distracted by things around them.
We'd like to point out that training a dog to stop pulling is a very important issue to tackle, as the control we have over our dog with a leash correlates strongly to their behavior off the leash. The basics of dog training start with the leash. If you would like our help with getting your dog to be a better walker on a leash, we are here to help!
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