The mail person brought a
package for me and DixieLee the other day.
It was a surprise. Mom bought us
new harnesses. I have to admit I am not
the best leash walker. I like to go fast
and Mom is so slow. It’s not her fault
that humans only have two legs so they can only go half as fast as us dogs who
have four legs.
Not being a great leash
walker hasn’t been a big problem since we do most of our walking at Dog Park or
at Dog Mountain where I don’t have to be on leash. It would be nice to be able to walk other places
so we have tried a bunch of different collars and harnesses but I didn’t like
any of them. I had a nice harness that I sort of liked but
I still pulled cuz I wanted to go faster. I know, we are supposed to do training but it
just frustrates Mom and me so we gave up
I liked that harness, it
was a pretty purple color and it worked okay until DixieLee ate it. With two
dogs to walk, we really needed to find something that made us be good leash
walkers. Instead of buying a new harness right away, we tried using a gentle
leader but I didn’t like it on my face.
DixieLee is okay with her gentle leader but it makes her face itchy and
she tries to rub it off after it’s been on for a while.
We looked at all kinds of
leashes and harnesses but we didn’t like any of them much. Then Mom heard about a new kind of harness
that connects the leash to the front on my chest instead from behind on my
shoulders. It’s called Walk Your Dog
With Love. It works sort of like the
gentle leader, turning me around if I start going too fast or going in a
different direction than Mom wants me to go in.
My new harness is black
which looks absolutely stunning on me and goes nicely with my pink collar. DixieLee’s is blue which looks very nice with
her brown coat. Mom’s pretty good with
knowing fashion stuff. This harness is
very easy to put on too. With my other
harness, I had to pick up my foot and then Mom had to clip it this way and
that. The Walk Your Dog With Love
harness is super easy to put on. It
slips over my head and Mom takes the strap under my tummy and clips it on the
other side.
Having an easy to get on
harness is very helpful when you have a dog like DixieLee who gets so excited
that she rolls around and squiggles every which way when you try to get her
ready to go out. Mom likes that these harnesses are made in the USA. They even have some stuff called Scotchlite
on it which makes it easy to see us in the dark.
We tried them out today
and I think they are going to work good.
We all went for a big walk in town and I hardly pulled at all. I walked slower and Mom was able to keep up. DixieLee walked better than me but that’s cuz
she got to practice yesterday. The only
one who failed walking was Dad. He was a
real slow poke. He needs lots more
practice if he is going to walk with us again.
Going for walks is one of
the best funs we have so I’m happy we found a harness that makes walking even
more fun. Were you always a good leash
walker and if not, how did you get better?
Your good walking friend,
Zeva
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