- The main reason that anybody reaches out to somebody like myself is I cannot walk my dog on a leash.

I designed this ridiculously simple harness and I use it on every dog, I don't care how small, how big.

Works wonders, I'm telling you.

(upbeat music) My name is Jerry Barnes and I'm the owner of the Well Heeled Way dog training service and boarding kennel.

I've been training dogs for like 40 years.

I've been kenneling dogs, my wife and I, for 37 years.

Come on monsters.

And when the pandemic hit, I mean there was just no business.

We had nobody traveling.

I mean, nobody was inviting an old guy to come out and help 'em train their dog.

I got to thinking about what could we do better?

The inspiration of this is an author named Temple Grandin, and she talks about core pressure applied to animals, how it calms them down, and it took me about 15 minutes to design this simple, simple thing.

I basically lived at the hardware store for buying this, buying that.

I thought it had to be big and this and that.

So, it was kind of ugly, what I had.

I improved it a little bit more.

Cleaned it up a little bit more.

I use a five millimeter military grade paracord.

It's the size of your shoestring.

And I don't care what dog I put this on, it changes the behavior of the dog.

And it's so simple to market this.

I can help you with this pulling.

And I can show you something so easy, if you don't mind, while your dog is here.

Can I assemble one of my harnesses and can I send you a couple videos?

Bob is a Wirehaired Pointing Griffon.

I have cared for Bob and his brother a couple times, but I know that his mom has no chance of walking their dogs especially when she tries to take 'em both out together.

We're gonna assemble the harness for Bob.

It's going take me about four or five minutes.

So this is my slip harness.

I clip this right to his collar there, wrap around his chest.

This little loop right here is gonna pass through the swivel portion of the clip.

There we go.

So, if Bob would go out in front, or wants to go this way and I wanna go that way, it's gonna snug up around Bob's chest.

Bob has never experienced anything like that except maybe right now.

Okay, look what he just did.

He just laid down.

He wants to go that way, I'm gonna go this way.

Good boy.

Good boy.

There's no pressure on his neck.

The dog gets real anxious with me, I just stand here.

I put a little bit of pressure on it, just snug.

And the breathing is gonna slow down.

In the community, we're starting to see a lot of my leashes, a lot of my harnesses.

My online training program's going okay, it's not what I thought it would be.

And I think I need to go in there and tweak a few things.

Come here.

Sit.

I just enjoy helping people.

That's what I do.

Beautiful, brother.

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