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Originally Posted by Jkpal  I had the same experience with Piper, her harness slipped right off while we were at a park, near a busy road, no fences. She started off and thank God hesitated when I said, "HOLD IT!!" I really believed she only hesitated because she never heard me like that...sheer panic. Anyway, I, too grabbed her, held her and continued shaking like a leaf until a half hour of walking home. Thank God in heaven above for helping us save our little footloose and fancy free babes!! |
Jax hasn’t managed to slip his harness yet, but I think I’m going to have to switch to a different type of harness. I’m concerned it’s going to pop open because his hair is getting so long and it sometimes interferes with the velcro fastening.
Another issue that people sometimes don’t realize
might be an issue is that the dog clips at the end of leashes sometimes fail, especially if the dog jumps around a bit. That’s happened to me twice with fosters. One second, the leash was attached to the harness, and the next second the leash was dangling at my side and the (harnessed) dog was loose. Luckily, both times it was with dogs who were somewhat timid and stayed close enough for me to pick them up almost immediately. It was scary enough, though, that I don’t attach leashes to harnesses with the dog clip anymore. I push the leash through the metal loop(s) of the harness, make a slip knot, and then clip the dog clip to a belt loop on my jeans if I want extra security.