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As I said, Crumpet's generally pretty good on the lead but I'd rather have the control a harness gives, just to be on the safe side. We have to walk her down a busy main road to get to the park so I'd rather be 100% sure that I've got a good hold of her in case she does try and bolt after a fox or whatever.
Thanks everyone else for the harness suggestions, I'll have a look through them when I have a little bit more time!
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I admit to being mystified by harness systems. Wouldn't it be easier to train dogs to walk to heel? They get the idea within a day or so and they know when they're taking the piss. Sure, it takes a lot of positive reinforcing and quite a few sharp 'nos' and 'dog heels', but life would be much easier in the medium term. My mob walk pretty sensibly held on rope slip leads held in my left hand without pulling.