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good points.
it actually goes on a martingale collar too when being walked to heal, but it just can never be let off the lead fully in certain places, so always needs some attachment and thus using a harness is better than said collar when just running on the lead. It's eaten a coop of chickens and a cat when it slipped.
skinny
Yeah. There’s an assumption that all dogs respond to training the same way. Teaching a dog to walk to heel can take a long time and sometimes never works.
The thing that mystifies me about harnesses for walking is that the point of attachment for the lead is the enabling the dog to exert maximum force. It’s where sled dogs are hooked up.
If the dog needs to be discouraged from pulling a head collar is best, as the dog gets pulled of line as soon as it starts pulling. They’re especially good if the dog is prone to suddenly lunging at another dog or a cat.
I only uses harnesses when in the car to attach the dog to a seatbelt.