As soon as your puppy realizes that it gets to go somewhere neat when the harness comes out you should see a great deal of cooperation. I tried to put both a collar and harness on Adie when she was a few weeks old and she was so squirmy I was afraid I'd hurt her. I tried again when she was a little older and she was lots easier to harness. You might want to wait a couple more weeks and try again.
I have a question for the anti-collar crowd. If you don't have collars on your babies, where do you put their dog tags. Aren't you afraid that they might slip out some time? If that happened it would be beneficial for them to have identification on them. Adie is microchipped and wears a collar 24/7. She doesn't mind it at all, in fact I suspect she sometimes trots a certain way to get her tags to jingle more. I think that if you use any kind of collar you shouldn't attach a leash to it - you should always use a harness. If the pup pulled too hard then you probably would have trachea problems.
JMO. |