harnesses that put no pressure on neck or chest?

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    harnesses that put no pressure on neck or chest?

    Asking for a SAR dog in our group who is very sensitive to anything tight to his neck/trachea (will pass out if hits the end of the leash with a collar on)

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    Sporn has one - Simple Control Harness.  I keep seeing it in Dr. Foster & Smith (because it's modeled by a Dobe).  When you see the thumbnail for it on Sporn's website, it's on a Pug and it looks like it's on the neck, but when you open to the product screen itself, it shows the harness on a Lab and looks to be lower/across the chest.  They call it their "non-choking design".

    Lupine harnesses sit lower, too - they're great quality materials - guaranteed even if the dog chews it.

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    Cherokee always had a sensitive trachea, but she would just cough if anything hit her neck. She had a Ruffwear Webmaster harness, which worked pretty well after I shortened the chest strap (the one that goes in between the front legs).

    Alpine Outfitters' Urban Trail harness is totally custom, that was my next choice if the Webmaster didn't work for Cherokee. I was just gonna order it with a nice short chest strap (is there a better name for that I'm not thinking of?), which I find is usually the reason the harness chokes, that strap is too long. If it's shorter, it pulls the straps that go across the neck down to the breastbone.

    Could also do a front-clip harness. That puts no pressure on the neck, and very little on the chest.
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    A Puppia or some other type that's more like a vest?  It puts pressure, but the front is so large and can sit low.  Kenya wears it for tracking, Nikon for agility or other times when I need to restrain him in drive on purpose.

     

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     Bugsy has the ruffwear harness and the pressure point on that is much lower than neck level

    Also has the quick control harness by bamboo which also is much lower than neck

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    I love Premier's Sure Fit harness.  It's what I used on Mick after he was diagnosed with Laryngeal Paralysis, and what Caleb wears when we're hiking.  Tracking harnesses are the same style.

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    Maybe a step-in style harness? Those tend to sit lower on the chest than a standard style harness.

    Or maybe a Gentle leader Easy walk harness? The one that clips in the front, its lower on the chest, maybe that would work?

    Hmm.. maybe I should try to come up with a leather design for a harness like that. Great, like I really need ANOTHER project lol Stick out tongue

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     haha I can see your wheels turning already

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    Would this be used for SAR tracking?  B/c I do kind of my own variation of a tracking Boetcher harness that attaches to the collar but the pressure is applied around the loin area of the dog, not in front, and the line runs under the dog.

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     No, it's an air scent dog. They work off leash and hardly even wear collars when doing it. It's just when the owner takes him for walks outside of doing SAR stuff.

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    Could work for that too, I used it with Nikon for control before he was better trained at normal "dog walking", it actually is more effective for him than a prong or anything else, but totally self correcting.

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     hmm you're right that probably would work. I wonder how this guy would feel about that though...considering he is a guy. You know how they are about anything that goes near that area lol

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    Works for Nikon and he's intact!  Most people do it farther up, like around the ribs, if it's just a means of formally walking a dog and not as much about control.

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    Jewlieee

     haha I can see your wheels turning already

    I hate getting new ideas Stick out tongue Now I want to make it lol

    This is what I came up with... Its kind of similar to a "step in harness" design, only the  strap on the chest meats the girth strap halfway up instead of at the top of the harness. If it had O rings on the sides of the harness, when the harness is pulled (the leash would be attached to the O ring on top) they would slant back, without pulling the chest part of the harness up... If that makes any sense lol

    Please excuse my horrible computer drawing skills. The black line is suposed to be the leash.

     

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    Willow has what Karen mentioned, the Webmaster harness from Ruffwear.  It doesn't put any pressure on the neck.