I put a lock on the leash to his harness when I walk him (because most leashes have a cleft in them where he has pulled out and taken off), and that way I know he won’t break into traffic if we’re on a busy street.

I live a couple blocks from a big park where they have a fenced in dog space as big as 2.5 football fields where he loves to romp and run around with other dogs. About 45 minutes in, I’ll hear some dog who won’t stop barking at the other end (I’ll wonder what’s up with that dog) and I’ll find it’s mine and he’s picked out one dog,following it wherever, and gotten in it’s face to keep saying with a defeaning bark “And another thing.”

We have exactly the same problem…hence “control” being a subjective term. Tbogg calls walking the beasties “being crucified” since they seem to perpetually be going in the opposite direction from one another. Beckham is also VERY territorial when we are on our block so he not only sees the other dogs, he immediately starts barking and growling at anyone or anything that comes into view. His reputation for malevolence is not without merit. Thanks for sharing the basset photos…always good to find another crazy person who had fallen in love with the stubborn, drooly dog lumps.

If you can walk them, instead of having them walk you, especially if there is another dog on the distant horizon (mine has great visual acuity) I want to hear your tricks. I have long used a harness for my previous Bassett and this one, and 75% of the time, I can get him to walk a straight line but the other 25% he’s all over the place and once in a while if he sees something I don’t first (usually another dog) he can nearly knock me down rushing over there.

So, are the harnesses for wrinkle support, kind of a Basset body-bra? Because in both photos it looks like “lift” is the goal; “separate” not so much.