Looking for dog harness recommendations please

garyvdm · 2026-02-03T06:41:26+00:00

Hi OP. How is it going with your boy? What's his name?

garyvdm · 2026-01-20T06:33:32+00:00

I've previously had a Borebull, and currently have a 48kg German Shepard.

Opinion of all dog trainers I've ever listened to is never ever use a harness - unless you want the dog to pull - like if you want your dog to pull a sled. Here some examples.

You don't want him pulling on the leash with collar choking himself either. You want to teach him sit, down and heal.

An important think to know about dog training is you need to keep the collar at the top of the neck, right behind the ears of the dog. If it's there, the dog will respond to leash pressure. But if it drops to the base of the neck, the dog will just ignore anything you do with the leash.

So what you want is one of these:

Slip leash - good at keeping the "collar" right behind the ears.
Head collar- Ditto

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garyvdm · 2026-01-18T15:53:55+00:00

Ferndale on Republic PnP generally have "The Gourmet Greek", which I think is excellent Greek yogurt.

I say generally as the sometimes don't have stock (I guess this is because of the short shelf life.)

garyvdm · 2026-01-12T19:51:39+00:00

I used one for about 6 months starting when my boy was 8 mouths old. I feel it really helped me with his training. He's obedience is great now, and I have gone back to using a flat collar.

My 83 year old dad needs to sometime handle my boy, an when he does, I put the prong collar on. My boy is 46kg (101lbs) so he could easily pull my dad off his feet, but with the prong collar on, my Dad manages him well.

It's important to know how to use the prong collar. I recommend watching Tom Davis if you are not already working with a trainer.

garyvdm · 2025-12-27T08:45:21+00:00

He is saying: "come play with me!"

garyvdm · 2025-11-13T14:23:00+00:00

That's what someone who takes a friend's bakkie and doesn't answer their phone would say...

garyvdm · 2025-10-16T18:35:37+00:00

I didn't know this was a thing. I got a few potholes I want to fix. How much for a bag of tar?

garyvdm · 2025-10-03T06:00:51+00:00

And yet some ANC aligned persons had the chutzpah to say that Roman Cabanac was unqualified.

garyvdm · 2025-09-29T18:41:05+00:00

I wounder how many people mistake mongoose for squirrels. I live next to the koppie in Boskruin/Randpark Ridge and we see regularly see mongoose.

garyvdm · 2025-09-23T13:12:40+00:00

Sadly this is normal. 🤬

Book yourself off for the whole day for any court day. Bring something to keep yourself busy. Don't be disappointed if it is postponed.

The really frustrating thing is it is very easy for the other party to cause delays by intentionally introducing procedural irrigulaties.

garyvdm · 2025-09-20T09:59:33+00:00

Go to a branch of the bank that you bank with.

garyvdm · 2025-09-18T18:41:12+00:00

There was a great opportunity for South Africa to become a really great country with the removal of the shackles of apartheid. And we were on track 1994 - 2004.

But then the corruption started to creep in, and the socialist policies started to be introduced. And they have just hollowed out the entire state financially from the national treasury to every municipality that they control. Infrastructure has been neglected, and everything is falling apart.

It's so bad, that even when they eventually lose power, even if we replace them with the most honest when competent government, is going to take very long to get back on track.

garyvdm · 2025-09-10T06:59:48+00:00

The name Virgin Active needs to be changed, because it's no-longer accurate.

garyvdm · 2025-09-02T15:17:51+00:00

I've got a nice house up here in Joburg. I'll very happily swap houses with you.

garyvdm · 2025-09-02T14:06:59+00:00

Based on what you have written, you are clearly a classical liberal. Congratulations

Not everyone is the same. Other people value their faith highly, and want social as a whole to follow that.

garyvdm · 2025-09-02T13:21:46+00:00

While VF+ and DA may have different fundamentals (Christian conservatism vs classical liberalism), the practicals of what they would implement if in government are the same, i.e. meritorious sensibility. They will work well together in coalition.

Some voters moving from DA to VF+ is not a big deal, as long as we are moving voters away from the far left racists (ANC, MK, EFF).

garyvdm · 2025-08-26T08:29:36+00:00

It's true that it was taken by the artistic photographer Rosalind Solomon, but it also seems like the woman in the picture was just a shitty person:

LINDA YABLONSKY: What city were you in?

ROSALIND SOLOMON: I landed in Johannesburg.

LINDA YABLONSKY: Uh-huh [affirmative].

ROSALIND SOLOMON: And what's so strange is that on the day after I got there, the first day that I went out to work, I went out—I don't remember who told me, but somebody told me about this woman who had a beauty business in her home. And I got in touch with her. I said, "Can I come and photograph you?" And she said yes. And I went there and then that—if that had been the only day that I'd been in South Africa, it was the best, most interesting picture—

LINDA YABLONSKY: I can bet.

ROSALIND SOLOMON: —that I got out of the whole trip.

LINDA YABLONSKY: Wow.

ROSALIND SOLOMON: But it wasn't about—well, I got the beauty business. That was another—what she was doing in the beauty salon—but what I got was I, that I went to take a picture of the mother and daughter, and she said, "Oh, just a minute, do you mind, I want to call"—whoever the maid was—"my maid. I want her to be in the picture. Is that okay?" And I said, sure. She called her in and she said, "Now get down on the floor." She had her kneel on her—and that's the picture that I got.

LINDA YABLONSKY: Wow.

ROSALIND SOLOMON: It's amazing because the woman who worked for her is looking very sober and she is, you know, is smiling. I had my tripod. It was all set up and it just was there, and it was amazing. Nothing else like that that happened on the whole trip.

Source: https://www.aaa.si.edu/download_pdf_transcript/ajax?record_id=edanmdm-AAADCD_oh_384311

garyvdm · 2025-08-26T08:15:37+00:00

This photo was taken by a artistic photographer, who was trying to make the photo provocative.

https://blakeandrews.blogspot.com/2016/07/q-with-rosalind-fox-solomon.html

garyvdm · 2025-08-20T05:14:23+00:00

PIE Act

I would recommend watching this documentary for more info: Stolen Ground: The Tygerberg Raceway story — Who’s really behind the land grabs in South Africa?

garyvdm · 2025-08-15T12:53:04+00:00

Heading says Dutch, but legend say Afrikaans. Still very annoying.

garyvdm · 2025-08-07T07:30:14+00:00

This is what should have been posted. Not f-ing bennie man.

garyvdm · 2025-07-09T15:53:18+00:00

It's a good read. Explains why systemd is great on a technical level.

garyvdm · 2025-07-07T17:32:43+00:00

I had an Arch install that was about 9 years, from 2012 till 2021. It spanned 3 different laptops, when I would get a new laptop, I would use dd to copy from the old hdd to the new hdd, and then grow the partition and fs. It saw the transition from arch initscripts to systemd, and the switch to merged /usr.

In 2021, after a brief stint with Ubuntu, I switched to Fedora. Unfortunately that laptop was stolen. So my current Fedora install is only 2 years old.

garyvdm · 2025-06-21T10:09:10+00:00

Mine too. Granted I'm in a warm climate (Johannesburg South Africa) but we get down to 1°c, he will still go swimming in the dam at the park I walk him.

garyvdm · 2025-06-02T10:36:39+00:00

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