Howling Dog Enterprises
Distance Harness
$50.00 USD
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USED AND RECOMMENDED BY ALLEN MOORE, THE WINNER OF THE 2013, 2014 and 2018 YUKON QUEST AND BY ALIY ZIRKLE, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016 IDITAROD SECOND PLACE FINISHER!
This multi-use harness is our best seller! It is an ideal harness for "beginner" dogs and experienced canine athletes alike.
Our Distance Harness is the harness of choice for skijoring, bikejoring, scootering, canicross, and hiking. It is an ideal harness for use with BTL and Springer bike attachment. The Distance Harness is also a great harness for roading (exercising gun dogs with an ATV or bike). It can also be used as a "truck" harness or a car safety harness. The Distance Harness is very popular as a walking harness for pet dog owners. No more choking for pulling dogs! And most but not least, this harness is one of the most popular harnesses for long-distance mushing. Our Distance Harness has been designed with the priceless expertise of four-time Iditarod champion Jeff King.
Why do we recommend a short harness for skijoring/bikejoring/canicross over an x-back harness? The line angle between the dog and the skijorer (biker, runner) is steeper than the line angle between a dog team and a sled, which has a lower point of attachment. When a skijoring line is connected to a typical x-back harness, the steeper angle will often cause a lifting force on the harness. The design of our Distance Harness takes into consideration the steeper line angle.
The Distance Harness only reaches about 1/3 down the dog's body, which eliminates the pressure on the dog's hips while pulling. Therefore it makes this harness an excellent choice of a harness for any dog with lower back problems. Crabbing dogs (dogs running sideways) will straighten out while fitted with this harness. Our Distance Harness comes highly recommended by Wes Rau, a top canine physical therapist.
This harness is made out of 1 1/4 inch wide durable webbing featuring an attractive, eye-catching pattern. A reflective thread is woven into the edges of the webbing for increased nighttime visibility. The body strap is adjustable. The Distance Harness is fully padded and comfortable for the dog to wear. The slick padding material will allow for the harness to rotate freely around the dog’s body.
A NOTE: If you have a very hard pulling dog, our Second Skin/Tough Skin Harness will be better suited for all the activities listed above.
How to measure for a proper harness fit: Measure the circumference of your dog’s neck from an inch or so above the shoulder blades to an inch or so above the breastbone and back, then compare that measurement to the sizing chart. If the neck size and suggested weight don’t match, go with the bigger harness to ensure the body strap won't sit too close to the dog's armpits.
Sizes:
- XXS 14 inches (20- 29 lbs.)
- •XS 17 inches (30 - 39 lbs)
- •S 18-19 inches (40 - 49 lbs)
- •M 20 inches (50 - 59 lbs)
- •L 21-22 inches (60 - 69 lbs)
- •XL 23-24 inches (70 - 79 lbs)
- •XXL 25 inches (80 - 99 lbs)
- •XXXL 26 inches (100+ lbs)
Really nice harness, my dog know when we put it on it's time to run! We have her hooked up to a bicycle and this has been the perfect addition.
5 stars as always. I absolutely love howling dog Alaska distance harnesses. It stops my crabbers from crabbing and also, my wolfdogs can't reach the harness to chew it up
Love these versatile styles. Been buying these harnesses for my cattle dogs, kid's huskies, and now couple backups for my guardian (LGD). The harness works great for attaching to bicycle on a swing out arm for any of the above sizes, active hikes, or just walks to the dog park. When I broke my leg, one of my LGD would proudly wear the triple x to help with my mobility around the ranch. This particular dog never even liked a collar early on, so this harness was a game changer! I have almost every size now in several colors. My anatolian is waiting for hers in pink when you get that made in xxx!
We have a dog that is trained to pull on hikes, and love this harness and supporting this company. We bought our dog’s first harness from them ~9.5 months ago, but it recently (and seemingly out of nowhere) started ripping apart along the back behind the attachment point (see picture). I wasn’t sure if it was going to impact the structural integrity of the harness, it might’ve just been the part meant to hold the back padding in place and prevent the back loop from sliding too far forward, but we went ahead and bought a second one since we liked it so much—there seems to be a high consistency in the product, it looks/fits exactly the same as the first one.
Alicia, we are happy to hear that you like our harness. Thank you for bringing the defect to our attention. It seems that the harness was either not assembled properly or tampered with. Based on your picture, the body strap was not positioned between the two layers of webbing in front of the D-ring. It was positioned between the webbing and the padding (damaging the stitching and tearing the padding off). Did you perhaps take the body strap out (and fed it back in the wrong way)? Some customers do that to move the buckle on the body strap to the opposite side of the body. In any case, we will reach out to you privately.
I have a 30lb russel whippet mix that pulls hard. Lean with deep chest. I have the XXS and it fits perfectly. Her last one she had for 6+ yrs. Washed many times.
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