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<\/a>\nKim is sporting the 3\/4″ New Wave and Dylan has the 1″ Bling Bonz, both Adjustable Harnesses rather than the Step-In style.<\/p>\n
I love these harnesses! They’re great for flyball as when the dog pulls, the pressure goes across the shoulders and not across the neck or the chest. They’re also easy to hold, which is important! I like the Puppia harnesses but don’t have them as they’re too hard to keep hold when your dog is revved up and racing (plus they come in small sizes, no chance of fitting Dyl!). Having said that the Lupine webbing material isn’t very forgiving on your skin when you’ve got cold and wet hands, but of course it’s always sunny and bright in the UK so that’s never a problem. (In all seriousness, this is one of my only criticisms, but I wear fingerless gloves when I run the dogs in the cold so the material doesn’t get chance to bite).<\/p>\n
The material does stretch a little so you may find you have to readjust the straps after a couple of training sessions, but we’ve never had the buckles break or heard of them breaking.<\/p>\n Lupine leads, collars and harnesses also come with a lifetime guarentee even if chewed<\/em>, which means we’ve had about 6 replacements without question from Dylan’s escapades as a puppy. They do discontinue slow-selling or old patterns however, which means that although you can have a very unique set it’s hard to get a replacement or matching collar\/lead! They’re also easy to clean, we just stick them in the washer when they get dirty without a problem.<\/p>\n We tend to order direct from http:\/\/www.lupinepet.com\/<\/a> as the postage isn’t much more than from the British retailer Collarways<\/a>, but there is a wider choice of patterns and sizes. You can also get the Lupine range from eBay, sometimes cheaper, but it’s very hit-and-miss as to which patterns and sizes are available.<\/p>\n Mollie wears a fleece-lined harness, and as you can see she’s very pleased with it. The webbing distributes the pressure across the same areas as the Lupine however, and you should note that the actual fleece on the edges doesn’t take the pressure itself, it’s the webbing inner that does. Therefore if you’re looking for a broader strap, don’t always presume fleece is the way to go.<\/p>\n Again, easy to wash and comes in a variety of pretty colours!<\/p>\n The fleece harnesses come to us direct from stalls at flyball competitions, so I can’t personally recommend a suitable online shop. http:\/\/www.dog-games.co.uk\/newshop\/Harnesses+-+Fleece+Lined\/<\/a> is recommended by the ever-trustworthy guys on Ruffdogs<\/a>, and eBay have a variety available too.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> Harnesses are designed to allow and encourage dogs to pull; the original design of a harness was intended for sled-dogs, tracking dogs, and now flyball dogs. If your dog pulls even a little on the lead, trying a harness will only amplify the problem. We only<\/strong> use harnesses on our dogs during flyball training and competition. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Our dogs always wear harnesses for flyball, and we’ve gone through a variety of styles before finding ones that suit both us and the dogs! This isn’t so much of a review as a explanation of how and why we chose the different harnesses for our different dogs, and what the advantages and disadvantages are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flyball","category-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5mHz0-3u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thosenoisydogs.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nFleece Harnesses<\/h4>\n
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\nMy mum chose this for Mollie as it is much kinder on her hands. Unlike Kim and Dylan, Mollie doesn’t pull forward at a constant pressure, she likes to vary things by going backwards, twisting and bouncing on the spot and lunging forward to try and break your grip. With the webbing on the Lupine harnesses or similar, that means you usually have to let go because your fingers are being sawn off!<\/p>\n<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n