HELP! harness my Yorkie can't bite off
 

I too am hoping this is where to put my help sign out, very new to this forum and have not been very successful in getting one through.
For the past 5 months I have had to purchase a harness every week, some months I am lucky and only need to get 2, at $8.00 a shot I need to get something very strong. I get my harness from wal-mart, nylon, I thought that was a very strong material, ha...not for my Nigel. Now with no harness I can't walk him...........has anyone had this situation and solved it? I thought of a chain, but his only 8 pounds, plus it would be too uncomfortable for him I am guessing. I checked the harness at Pet Smart but they are the same ones ass Walmart. Last night I put a collor nylon on and this morning it was completly bitten through.
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I'm confused, do you leave the harness on him all the time? If not, how does he get a hold of them?

This is very beautiful work. DH is a falconer and makes tracking equipment (working on having him make some Roxie) and he says this leather is really good stuff and falconers use it for making jesses for their birds. If a falcon can't chew through it you know it's pretty tough stuff. Have you made anything for these purposes? Your baby is adorable too!!

To be honest, I don't think a braided 'roo harness would help your situation. I could be wrong, but it would be an expensive experiment. Braiding the leather really just adds more to the flexibility and strength of the harness, not its durability while being chewed.

I could maybe imagine a solid strip of 'roo made into a harness resisting chewing better, but I still don't really think it would hold up to nylon - particularly because leather is even more fun for dogs to chew on than nylon is. What makes 'roo so great is compared to any other leather of the same thickness, 'roo is a bunch stronger. But that doesn't necessarily make it more resistant to abrasion... and comparing a strip of 'roo to a strip of nylon paracord - well, there's no comparison. Nylon's just stronger. I've been experimenting recently with braiding a couple whips out of nylon, and I don't hesitate to crack them in our gravel yard or on the sidewalk. But I would never crack a leather (cowhide or kangaroo) whip I've made abrasive surfaces like that.

Anyways, all that aside, my best advice for you is to only put the harness on when you're going to be walking him. Hopefully if he's physically in the act of walking, he'll be less concerned with harness-chewing. Nikko chews on his harness much less than he used to, but he still does it occasionally in the morning or evening - it seems like he does it when he wants something to chew on but is too lazy to get up and find his bully stick, lol.

You can also get some bitter apple spray and douse the harness in it just before you put it on him. But that stuff wears off fairly quickly, so you still can't leave the harness on him for any amount of time unsupervised.

I dunno - hope that helps a little. You could try doing a search for "chewing" and "harness" - that might help you find a few more threads about other people with the same problem as you, and solutions they found. Don't quote me on this, but I think there might be a seller here on YT who will replace her harnesses if they are chewed through (chattiesmom, I think?). Anyways, try to do a search, hopefully you'll find something. Good luck :-)

Lauren & Nikko