Doggo Parents Weigh In On A Canine Debacle As Old As Time: Collars Vs. Harnesses

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    Font - r/dogs Posted by u/MacaNomNom 1 day ago Why don't more people use a harness instead of a leashes collar?
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    Font - Genuine question! I've always wondered why people don't use body harnesses more when leashing their dogs. I see videos of dogs being pulled with a leashed collar and can't help but feel bad because I imagine that can't be good for the doggy. :c For those that use leashed collars, why do you use that over a harness? Again, a genuine question! c:
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    Font - whimsythedal. 1 day ago Whimsy the Dalmatian Harnesses can be tough to find a good fit. They can rub an irritate a dogs skin and fur. They can impact a dogs gait. I'd rather just train my dog to walk on a leash.
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    Font - 629mrsn - 1 day ago Because my sight hound has a big chest and little head.
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    Font - XANTJX 1 day ago My dog is a service dog so harness-work. I use collar/leash only to let him know he can have more freedom to greet friends and smell everything. But I still never clip the leash to the harness because I get lots of important feedback from the collar/leash and so does he, like where he's looking, if I'm turning, etc. I also think it would throw him off to do 50/50. We used an easy leader when he was a puppy for the same reason, but he didn't like it and it just wasn't nece
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    Font - ClawdStrife 1 day ago I use harnesses because I live in a building with an elevator. If my dog's leash ever gets caught in the door, I'm sure that as uncomfortable as it is being lifted by the harness until it snaps, that's a thousand times better than if the leash was tied to the neck. Macabre, sure, and it might never happen, but I've seen something like that happen and I'm terrified of the thought of my dogs going through something like that.
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    Font - swiper8 1 day ago My dog has long hair and mats very easily. Harnesses often make that worse. Plus, he doesn't really like them. Since he doesn't pull there's no danger to using a collar, so that's what I use. It works for both him and me.
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    Font - goohsmom306. 1 day ago My dog has a tough shape for harnesses, long body, short legs, thick neck. The last dog I had with that shape could easily pull out of a harness, this one is even smarter. The collar doesn't trigger her urge for freedom
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    Font - onebirdonawire . 1 day ago I started using a harness because I have a very smart dog that can figure out how to slip out of her collar. She can't figure out the harness and, when she tried, she ended up with her front leg strapped to her chest and couldn't move. Seemed pretty embarrassed about it.
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    Font - Few_Philosopher_3340 1 day ago I'm a dog walker, and although I prefer harnesses myself, these seem to be the main arguments against them for my clients who only use collars: 1. They think the harness encourages pulling/will make it worse. 2. Their dog gets scared/uncomfortable when it's time time put the harness on, and it's easier to just use a collar than try to corner them into pulling the harness on or conditioning them to be more comfortable with it. 3. Harnesses are generally a lot
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    Human body - ctn91 1 day ago Because my beagle continues to pull harder when I need him to come with me another direction. He responds much better by the collar annoyingly. This is before even he gets to the cough/choke level.
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    Font - BitsyMidge 1 day ago I have two dogs, and one is collar dog, one is a harness dog! My 2 year old rescue mix has significant anxiety issues. He was afraid of harnesses for a long time. He will wear it now without fear, but he doesn't feel comfortable in it. So we use it only if we're going somewhere really exciting where he might pull on his collar (he's still young). He wears his collar always (except bedtime) for ID. My 1 year old is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel. She loves her harness
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    Font - former_human. 1 day ago because my dog would pull me into traffic. or instruct me in how to faceplant. or yank my arm out of its socket. no amount of training has slowed her pull, so we use a Gentle Leader.
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    Font - Ravenmorghane. 1 day ago I had to stop using a harness because it was giving my puppy an awful rash - even though it was only on for walks! Now he's a bit older and his skin's less sensitive we have tried again and it seems to be okay.
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    Font - Low_Net_5870. 1 day ago Because if a big dog isn't well trained and is wearing a harness, you're recreating the Iditarod in your neighbor's front yard.

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