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The Standard Dog Halter, also called a Standard Harness
A dog halter, which is also commonly referred to as harness, consists of to a set of straps that fit around and under your dog's front underarms and, then, around his shoulders and upper back.
Usually made of nylon, each dog halter has a metal ring built into it to which you can attach your dog's lead.
The big advantage to halters is that they are much less likely to cause injury than are collars, which transfer the stress of every correction directly onto your dog's fragile, injury-prone neck area.
On this website, we are using the term standard harness or standard halter to describe a harness that is not designed for the purpose of attaching a dog to a load to be pulled along behind. Nor is it designed to make it uncomfortable for the dog to attempt to pull against the lead, as is the case with a no-pull halter.
Rather, a standard halter neither facilitates nor hinders pulling. One might say that a standard halter is pulling-neutral.