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Sunnydayz · 01-01-2014, 02:54 PM

I myself would never put a collar on Gizmo, as its very dangerous for yorkies, they have very small fragile tracheas and a collar can cause it to collapse if any pressure is put on their neck from it. I myself got Gizmo microchipped, and I also have a small tag that I put on the loop of the buddy belt, with my phone number to contact. I got the tag engraved at petco and its one of the smaller tags for cats. Here is a thread of one story that may have you think twice, this just recently happened http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...xperience.html . I have heard good things about the harnesses from lil sis , as well as the buddy belts. I myself went with the buddy belts and love them, I want them all :-) I got mine from Maximo's site, all except one they were out of that I really wanted, so I ordered that one somewhere else, but they are wonderful. I too let gizmo drag his leash around the house while I watched him, before walking him, and he acted like he did not even have anything on and walked perfect :-) I would be careful of the advertised choke free harnesses on amazon, as I had been looking on there as well, before learning here what they should really look like, and most that I seen on amazon listed as choke free, were pretty much just regular harnesses.

One awesome thing with the buddy belts too, is they just came out with the buddy belt 2, which is much better priced, just not made with the super nice leather the others are, but they are made exactly the same as far as function :-) another thing that made me choose the buddy belts, is they had five adjustment holes where the other one was just one size, and Gizmo is a growing pup. I have all size 2 for Gizmo but he's on the last hole, so I'm gonna need to buy some size 3 I think :-) once he's full grown i plan on buying the choke free harness from Lil Sis to try them out as well :-) they both have amazing feedback and I would feel safe with either of the 2 that you can get from the members stores on here.

Oh one more thing, I actually bought one of the choke free harnesses from amazon when I first got Gizmo almost 5 months ago, and he hated it. He would act like he was going to kill himself trying to get it off. I gave it to my daughter who also has a small Maltese mix, and he did the same thing. I gave her one of my buddy belts for Dash and he also immediately walked perfect with it.

01-01-2014, 02:54 PM	#12
Sunnydayz YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Redondo beach Posts: 675	I myself would never put a collar on Gizmo, as its very dangerous for yorkies, they have very small fragile tracheas and a collar can cause it to collapse if any pressure is put on their neck from it. I myself got Gizmo microchipped, and I also have a small tag that I put on the loop of the buddy belt, with my phone number to contact. I got the tag engraved at petco and its one of the smaller tags for cats. Here is a thread of one story that may have you think twice, this just recently happened http://www.yorkietalk.com/forums/gen...xperience.html . I have heard good things about the harnesses from lil sis , as well as the buddy belts. I myself went with the buddy belts and love them, I want them all :-) I got mine from Maximo's site, all except one they were out of that I really wanted, so I ordered that one somewhere else, but they are wonderful. I too let gizmo drag his leash around the house while I watched him, before walking him, and he acted like he did not even have anything on and walked perfect :-) I would be careful of the advertised choke free harnesses on amazon, as I had been looking on there as well, before learning here what they should really look like, and most that I seen on amazon listed as choke free, were pretty much just regular harnesses. One awesome thing with the buddy belts too, is they just came out with the buddy belt 2, which is much better priced, just not made with the super nice leather the others are, but they are made exactly the same as far as function :-) another thing that made me choose the buddy belts, is they had five adjustment holes where the other one was just one size, and Gizmo is a growing pup. I have all size 2 for Gizmo but he's on the last hole, so I'm gonna need to buy some size 3 I think :-) once he's full grown i plan on buying the choke free harness from Lil Sis to try them out as well :-) they both have amazing feedback and I would feel safe with either of the 2 that you can get from the members stores on here. Oh one more thing, I actually bought one of the choke free harnesses from amazon when I first got Gizmo almost 5 months ago, and he hated it. He would act like he was going to kill himself trying to get it off. I gave it to my daughter who also has a small Maltese mix, and he did the same thing. I gave her one of my buddy belts for Dash and he also immediately walked perfect with it.