what harness size is a papillon puppy usually?
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at
7:53 am
I need to know what size of harness i need for when i get my papillon puppy, i dont want to get a collar since hyper dogs would just end up choking themselves x.x
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I have a Papillon, he was a small harness size in most brands, but set to the lowest adjustment, and then he grew into it a bit as he grew.
I recommend a) get a cheap one for your first one because Pap puppies have SHARP teeth and he will chew the clips and/or adjustors off quickly (we replaced our first harness in 3 weeks).
b) if you want to invest in a nicer one, get an easy walk harness that the leash attaches in the front, not at the back. This is great to help reducing the pulling, and Papillons do have gentle necks (when our Pap pulls he basically chokes himself.
Our Pap pulls so bad sometimes (it’s kind of random timing, 10% of the time), and we are trying to break the habit, we have a gentle leader head harness, but he will not walk properly with it on, and it was $40. I wish we had just gotten the easy walk harness instead because he doesn’t mind wearing a harness, but he pulls wearing a regular type one that the leash hook in the back. But since we have already replaced that twice and spent the money on the gentle leader … I can’t justify spending another $40 on ANOTHER harness.
Add: as the bottom poster mentioned, your goalshould be to walk your dog with a regular collar and leash, that is best since it is how a dog should be trained to walk. But while he is a puppy leash training will be a lot of him trying to pull you, which can be hard on a little Papillon’s neck. It is up to you what you use for training but I felt safer starting with a harness and graduating to a collar, which is what we use now unless he is in a really pulling mood, then we use the harness and go back a step in leash training.
Good Luck!