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Best $40 I've spent in a while

Posted : 4/1/2008 8:46:52 AM

I bought the Ruffwear Webmaster Harness and the Ruffwear Flat out leash from REI outlet and walked HANDS-FREE today. Thought I had died and gone to heaven. This is so much better for running I think it will work with the bike too!

It will also be very beneficial for my hands, elbows, shoulders, neck, and back.

Seriously this was very liberating! We did get some looks like is that dog loose? The only color harness they had in was black so from a distance I don't think you can see it on Bugs and the leash was around my waist. Oh my life has just become easier Big Smile

SalemsMom

Posted : 4/1/2008 9:04:03 AM

Salem has the same harness and we love it! The handle is wonderful for hikes if we need to help lift him onto rocks or anything. It's also a good ocean swimming harness if you take off the pads.

huskymom

Posted : 4/1/2008 9:07:35 AM

I started walking Crusher with his leash around my waist instead of holding on to it. He has some leash reactive issues and it was the only way I could ensure I wasn't tightening up on the leash at the wrong moments. I found it worked well with Onyx too. I can't fit it around my waist now...sigh....give me till August.

We don't have a special leash for it though, I didn't know they made them.

kpwlee

Posted : 4/1/2008 9:50:00 AM

I have wanted this harness for ages but I was too cheap to pay full price Embarrassed He is extremely hard to fit so I shy away from $$ experiments. This fit isn't perfect but it is better than any other harness we tried AND I don't think it will irritate his skin. He has little to no hair underneath and other harnesses have messed his skin up. This really looks a keeper Big Smile Bugsy seemed happy too, to not have anything on his neck or a restraining/irritating harness on.

Now keeping in mind I am cheap, this leash is very, very cool - especially for under $10. All our other leashes are short. He has a 4ft leather leash and a 2-3 ft extendable leash - neither of which I can tie around my waist. I do have a 20 ft training lead that we hike with but having tried to tie it around my waist and hold onto the excess its a pain in the butt. This leash has a buckle clip at the handle end so you 'wear' it and the loop is adjustable like the belt of a waist pack. It can be a plain old handle or around your waist or as they say a way to hitch you dog to something.

I figured I would check it out and likely return it - but no way this was sooo cool. Another bonus of the combo is that when I run with him he tends to grab the leash and try to make us go faster Angry but he couldn't do it with this.

He isn't a bad puller (I did try the leash around my waist on a beach trip when he was about 1 and thought I'd need back surgery afterwards), its very hard to describe but he is an active walker/runner as opposed to just sort of chilled out so you do get an upper body work out along the way. He is of course deer reactive which is a nightmare

Dog_ma

Posted : 4/1/2008 10:16:36 AM

That's awesome!

I bought a waist leash for jogging a while ago and I *love* it. It is a great feeling.