Has anyone tried this on a dog that pulls on leash?

See the halter here

It just seems too easy.. and it looks odd to me - does the leash really connect in front and the chest and then strap over the back???

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Well, I wont say it's another gimmic, but at least it doesn't look as lethal as those damn head haltis.
Those thing are an accident waiting to happen with a high drive dog. OK...I'll say it. "Looks like another gimmic to me." <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I'm thinking of that old saying "there's a sucker born every min. "..............

This is exactly the same as the SENSE-ation harness. It's a piece of crap. Before I found the trainer I ended up working with with my other dog for her dog aggression, I went to one that suggested using one of these things and redirecting her when she saw another dog. The leash hooks to a ring on the dog's chest instead of on the dog's back like a regular harness. It's supposed to work via 'pressure points' similar to horse training (why on earth do people think dogs and horses can be trained the same ways?? One's a prey animal and the other's a predatory animal - they have totally different ways of thinking and perception!)

Anyway, at the time, I was desperate to try anything to stop Gypsy from trying to dominate every dog she saw, so I agreed to try this harness (they had at first suggested the Gentle Leader, but I refused that). Of course, at the trainer's facilities, Gypsy did very well with the harness on in the presence of their dogs at a distance, and close by. The very first day *I* took her out with it on (after the initial few days of just letting her wear it around to get used to it), she saw a rabbit, decided to chase it, ripped the leash out of my hand as she took off, and went tearing across the field after it, ignoring any of my commands. She then got tangled up in a briar thicket and my husband had to go and get her. If she had been wearing her prong collar like she always did before, that NEVER would have happened. I can just imagine what could have happened if the rabbit had run across the road, or what could have happened in the event that we had encountered another dog on this walk. We immediately took the harness off her, put her prong on, continued our walk with no problems at all, and returned the harness the next day.

I'll say it again, any kind of harness, for the purposes of stopping pulling is a crock. In fact, *I* see no use for a harness for training purposes at all. What do they help train the dog to do other than pull against it? Use a regular training collar and teach your dog not to pull on the leash if that's your goal - don't go out and buy all kinds of goofy contraptions that take 5 minutes or more just to put on the dog, just so you can restrain him during the course of the walk and then remove the contraption when you get home. Just teach him to walk nicely and you won't have to rely on any particular device for the rest of his life.

Who are they kidding? Dog harnesses in general do NOT press against the "delicate tracheal area". These harnesses in particular look extremely uncomfortable, as the 'belly strap' is more of an 'armpit strap'. I don't like the looks of these. I use harnesses for my dogs because I like them better than collars, but the harnesses I use have a strap around the shoulders/neck area, connected on top and bottom to the belly strap, which goes around the dog just right behind the ribcage.

Yeah I agree, that comment was silly. If a dogs trachea is situated so low its mid thoracic - he's got bigger problems than leash pulling!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

I saw one for sale on ebay as I was skimming around. Too bizarre..

And I agree earthdog - those halties are scary looking. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" />

I'm just a bit leery of any website that has a photo of a Chihuahua named "Zeus" on it.....

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