Dog Collars, Harnesses & Leashes
Walk gear, chosen properly
Start with the walk you actually take
Most walking gear gets picked from a photo and tested for the first time out on the pavement. It works better the other way round.
Think about the walk you do most days — how long, how fast, and what happens the moment a squirrel appears. Ten minutes round the block is a different job from three miles on a trail. That is the honest way to choose dog collars, harnesses & leashes: buy for the walk in front of you.
Collar, harness, or both?
For a lot of dogs, the answer is both.
A collar is the simple one. It goes on and stays on, it carries a tag, and if your dog already walks politely at your side it may be all you need.
A harness changes where the pull lands — off the neck, spread across the chest and shoulders. That is strap geometry rather than opinion, and it is why harnesses come up so often for dogs who lean into the lead and for flat-faced breeds. Which suits your dog deserves more than a paragraph: dog harness vs collar.
The lead sits off the neck, clear of the front legs.
One honest caveat
A harness makes a strong puller easier to hold, but it will not teach them to stop — a back-clip design gives a determined dog something to lean into. That is a training problem rather than a hardware one, and leash training is where to start.
Getting the fit right
Weight is the wrong input. Reach for a soft tape instead: once around the neck, and once around the widest part of the chest, just behind the front legs. No tape in the house? A bootlace laid flat against a ruler is close enough.
Two fingers should slide under any strap. Much more and it shifts as your dog moves; much less and it is too tight. When a measurement lands between two sizes, the larger one is usually safer.
A soft tape and a patient dog. Neck first, then chest.
The first ten minutes
Putting a harness on a dog who has never worn one is where most people give up. Let it exist first — on the floor, near the food bowl, something worth sniffing. Then on, and straight back off, with something good happening in between.
A dog who plants their feet usually is not being stubborn. They have decided it is something that happens to them. Two or three short, cheerful goes and it becomes the thing that means a walk.
The piece people leave until later
Identification. A collar can slip, a gate gets left open, and a frightened dog covers ground fast. A tag with your number on it works instantly — no app, no scanner, no flat battery. Engraved name tags ride along on the collar you already have.
Looked after, good dog collars, harnesses & leashes stay in service for years.
Clips and stitching take the force of a sudden lunge.
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Questions we get asked
Which harness should I choose — the French Bulldog Harness or the Sports Harness?
They are built for quite different jobs. The French Bulldog Harness is a strap harness shaped around a Frenchie's broad chest, with adjustable straps, a secure buckle and reflective detailing that helps them show up in low light; it comes in two designs, Funky or Trees, in small, medium and large. The Sports Harness is a padded, water-resistant jacket with the harness built into it, so it makes more sense for cold or wet weather — and it runs much further up the size range, S through 4XL, in green, black, red, purple or blue.
Is a collar or a harness better for walking my dog?
It depends on how your dog walks. A collar is the simpler option and the place an ID tag lives — the Leather Collar Leash comes either as a collar on its own or as a matching collar-and-leash set, in five colours and sizes Small up to 2XL. A harness spreads the pull across the chest rather than the neck, which is why people with a dog that leans into the lead tend to reach for the French Bulldog Harness or the Sports Harness. Plenty of owners use both: the collar for the tag, the harness for the walk.
How do I work out which size to order?
Measure your dog with a soft tape before you order rather than guessing from their weight. The Sports Harness product page carries a size chart with back, chest and neck measurements in centimetres for every size from S to 4XL, the French Bulldog Harness comes in small, medium and large, and the Leather Collar Leash runs Small to 2XL. One thing catches people out: the Nylon Leash sizes are rope widths — 0.6, 0.8, 1, 1.4 and 1.6 cm — and every one of them is 150 cm long, so pick on thickness, not length.
Can I have my dog's name put on the collar?
Engraved name tags are the way to do it. The Custom Name Tags are stainless steel and come engraved with your dog's name and your phone number, ready to clip onto their collar. Bone, heart, round and square each come in silver, gold, rose gold or black, and fish comes in silver or rose gold only — then choose Small or Large.
