Finally, a Harness Decision

[KING OLLIE HOUSE of BULLDOG]

I’m still here. Reading always, not saying much lately. After exhaustive research and much hemming and hawing, I’ve decided on the Julius K9. Even though our heat index is still 100F+ every day, I am hoping for cooler weather maybe next month. It rains every single day...every...single...damn...day! It’s mostly over eighty degrees by the time I get up. The humidity is oppressive. And the morning and evening mosquitos are the size of the Goodyear blimp. Let’s say, unless you have a death wish for you and your bully, walking doesn’t happen.

Ollie has a martingale collar and generally when he’s walked, it’s on a slip leash. He’s a dream to walk, never pulls and heels perfectly. The only issue we ever has is if Sammy, the 85lb EBD neighbor dog lunges at Ollie pulling his owner across the street. She has him on a collar and leash and has no control over him. He walks her. She never walks him.

I want to take Ollie to more places during our “winter.” The farmers Market will be starting up again soon. There will be the Blues Festival. And the International Rowing Championships in January. The kind of stuff you people do in the summer, we do in the winter. I want to take Ollie to all these things because he’s such a great ambassador in every way for the EBD breed.

The only worry I have about the Julius K9 is that it will make him hot. What do those of you who use it think? He will only wear it for walking. Otherwise he has to wear his invisible fence collar

 

[Cbrugs]

I know a lot of people use the Julius K9 and love them but it always looked so bulky and heavy so I went with a Ruffwear harness for Louie. We usually only use it when we are walking at a beach or park or farmer's market, etc. For just walks around the neighborhood we use a Martingale collar.

 

[sisters3]

I purchased the Julius K-9 harness for Joey but it is just over kill for her....she too is a dream to walk. So, she goes without anything inside and when we go out to potty or to walk she wears a plush, soft lightweight harness. Hope this helps....

Sounds like you should give the K-9 harness to the lady across the street

Edited to say Joey's harness is the Planet Dog Cozy Hemp Harness

 

[Lalaloopsie]

As my Tank doesn’t pull and is very obedient, I dropped the harness since his 6-7 months of age and use simple collar because of the reason you mention - it’s just too hot for the most of the year where we lived in China and here in Georgia. I know that dogs don’t sweat except for paws but somehow harness was always wet after walks. Even worse, it was shaving his short fur in the armpits and on the sides. May be it happened because Tank has very pronounced bulldog way of walking - he really “rolls”, rowing with his front paws to the right side, I don’t know. But after couple of months of wearing harness his fur was shaved and skin irritated in armpits

 

[KING OLLIE HOUSE of BULLDOG]

After reading replies so far, I have a feeling I might be returning the Julius k9. We’ll see.

 

[helsonwheels]

After reading replies so far, I have a feeling I might be returning the Julius k9. We’ll see.

As you know Duke has ants in his pants as we say. Often I put the harness on and he always has his collar on for around the house and a choker for walks only. What I do, I have the 8ft leash but clips at each end. I clip one on the harness n one on the choker. When we start our walks he’s kind of pulls. I yank the choker a few times and he realizes he needs to stop pulling which he does. Then it’s the harness that kicks in for the rest of the walk. Basically the choker is there just in case he pulls or sees squirrels or cats or does his Dukie head.

 

[2BullyMama]

If he is a good walker, the harness could be overkill. My first two were like that... the two now— martingale with continued training


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