{"id":8931,"date":"2016-03-03T01:30:32","date_gmt":"2016-03-03T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/?p=8931"},"modified":"2016-03-03T02:06:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T07:06:03","slug":"put-end-pulling-xtreme-pet-products-no-pull-harness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yourdesignerdogblog.com\/2016\/03\/03\/put-end-pulling-xtreme-pet-products-no-pull-harness\/","title":{"rendered":"Put an End to Pulling with Xtreme Pet Products’ No-Pull Harness"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sadie’s got a new specialty harness we’ve been working with lately – the Xtreme Pet Products No-Pull Harness<\/a>. Now you may be asking why in the world I need a harness to stop pulling when Sadie is a pretty small dog. She usually seems well behaved too. But what you don’t know is that in certain circumstances, Sadie does have a tendency to pull. She’s not a big, strong dog, so it’s not a dangerous problem, but it’s still an issue I thought it was time to address. Hence our testing of the Xtreme Pet Products No-Pull Harness.<\/p>\n

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When I first received this harness, I was a little confused about how to use it. Don’t be embarrassed if you look at a harness and just see a bunch of strings with no idea where they go, because that’s how I feel at first too. But the Xtreme Pet Products website<\/a> has a nice PDF file that you can save or print to show you exactly how to put your dog into the No-Pull harness (click here to view the PDF instructions<\/a>). There are two loops that go around your dog and you just need to slip both over your dog’s head with the larger loop going on first.<\/div>\n
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Now Sadie’s main issue with pulling relates to avoidance. She is not comfortable with other dogs, so she tries to pull me away from them. This sometimes happens with people or strange\/noisy objects as well. This behavior can sometimes be embarrassing for me, like in the sponsor room at the BlogPaws<\/a> conference when Sadie got tangled under a vendor table trying to avoid probably the most well behaved dog I’ve ever seen. So I decided to take Sadie to some pet stores so we could encounter other dogs and see if this harness could really stop the pulling. There was definitely a difference in Sadie’s behavior. With any old harness, Sadie would be straining at the end of her leash and halfway into the next aisle if I went near another dog. With the Xtreme No-Pull Harness, Sadie would attempt one pull and then just stop and look at me. So far this harness test is a success.<\/div>\n
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I also took some video of Sadie and I on a walk using the Xtreme Pet Products No-Pull Harness. The video was taken towards the end of our walk, when we are about half a block from our house. At this point in the walk Sadie is normally rushing as fast as she can, trying to drag me down the street to our house. She typically looks like a little sled dog trying to mush me home. But with this harness on, Sadie acted completely different. As you can see in the video, Sadie is just walking along normally, occasionally looking back at me. Instead of pulling harder when she reached the end of the leash, Sadie just glanced over her shoulder, as if waiting for instructions or waiting for me to catch up.<\/div>\n
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