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Ålborg
$81.99
The front chest clip gently redirects pulling dogs back toward you for greater control, while the back clip provides a traditional attachment for relaxed, everyday walks. Crafted from certified Italian round leather, with reversed stitching, the Ålborg Harness has no exposed edges to rub, mat, or damage your dog’s coat.
"This harness is 10X the harness of any other I have used. No knots at all in my dog."Catherine Angle · Chicago, IL · Verified
One failure is behavioural and one is physical. Most harnesses answer the first and cause the second, which is why so many owners end up with a drawer of them.
The Ålborg moves the leash to the chest and rounds every surface that touches the dog. The front clip changes the direction of the pull rather than the amount of force in it, and rolled leather gives the straps no edge to abrade with.
A back clip and a front clip carry an identical load. What changes is where that load meets the dog, and therefore which way she ends up facing.
She leans in and gains ground. The harness rewards the pull.
She turns instead of advancing, and the pull stops paying off.
Every strap on this harness is leather wrapped around a nylon rope core and closed with the stitching turned inward. That is the same construction as the rolled collars, applied to four times as much contact area.
It is also why the roll cannot be closed by machine. An artisan feeds the leather around the core and sets the stitch true along the whole length, then cross-stitches the chest plate by hand.
Everything else on this page is an argument about shape and direction. These are the parts that let both hold up over the years a harness is worn almost daily.
This is the part people get wrong, and it is the only reason an Ålborg ever comes back. Two numbers, taken in the right places and in two different ways, and every size below either fits your dog or it does not.
| Neck | Chest | Chest adjusts | Typically suits | Price | Choose a size |
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Between 25″ and 29″ around the chest there is nothing stocked, and a dog can also be out of proportion — a deep ribcage on a fine neck, or the reverse. The Ålborg is built to your two measurements instead, in four bands that cover a neck from 8″ to 30″ and a girth from 10″ to 36″. The construction is identical.
Custom harnesses can be exchanged but are not refundable, since each one is cut to your numbers.
Sizing a harness properly costs you five minutes with a soft tape. Getting it wrong costs a week of shipping in each direction and a dog who has been walked in the wrong fit in the meantime, so the finder above exists to make the five minutes count.
The reviews that matter on a harness are the ones written once the novelty has worn off and the dog has been in it through weather, walks and a groomer's opinion.
"This harness is 10X the harness of any other I have used. No knots at all in my dog."
"From the moment I opened the package, I could tell this wasn't just another dog harness."
"The HUND harness is beautifully crafted and butter soft. Worth the money."
"One of the best rolled leather items for my dog that I have ever found, super soft, high-quality."
Take the size whose adjustment range your measurement sits inside with room at both ends, rather than one it only just reaches. If the number lands in the overlap between two sizes, take the larger and buckle it down. Send us the two measurements and the breed if you would rather we called it, and exchanges are free and unlimited either way.
Because it is a loop your dog's head passes through, not a collar that closes around the throat. Lay the tape over the back of the neck and let it hang so the lowest point sits at the middle of the chest, then read it there. Measuring it snug the way you would for a collar gives a number an inch or two short, and that is the difference between a harness that goes on easily and one that fights you at the door.
The neck. Neck 14″ Chest 20″ and Neck 16″ Chest 20″ take the same ribcage but a different neck, and the same pair exists at chest 22″. That is why we ask for both numbers. A deep-chested dog with a fine neck and a stocky dog with a thick one are not the same harness even at identical girth.
No. There is no tightening mechanism anywhere on this harness and nothing closes on the dog. The front ring simply moves the leash line to the centre of the chest, so leaning into it rotates her back toward you instead of driving her forward. The redirection is geometric, not aversive.
Every strap is round leather over a rope core with the stitching reversed, so there is no exposed seam and no flat edge anywhere on the contact surface. That construction is the reason the rolled collars exist, and a harness covers far more of the dog, so it matters more here than it does at the neck.
The leather is eco-friendly and free of toxins, and it is made specifically for dogs with sensitive skin or allergies. It mimics natural skin structure more closely than synthetic webbing, which is what makes it breathable against the body. If your dog has an active skin condition where the harness sits, talk to your vet before putting anything back on that spot.
Yes, and that pairing is what the two D-rings are for. Clip one end to the chest ring and one to the back ring and you get double-ended steering, which is the most control the harness offers on a dog still learning not to pull.
Yes. The made-to-order ÅLBORG is cut to your two measurements rather than to a stocked size, in four bands covering a neck from 8″ to 30″ and a girth from 10″ to 36″. That covers the 25″ to 29″ chest gap in the stocked chart and any dog whose neck and ribcage are out of proportion with each other. It also opens up six colours we do not hold in stock, including Cognac and Olive. Same round leather, same rope core, same reverse stitching. It is hand-made in Europe and takes 3 to 6 weeks, and because it is cut to your numbers it can be exchanged but not refunded.
Thirty days from delivery. Exchanges are free and unlimited within the US with a prepaid label, so swapping size or colour costs you nothing. For a return, take full value as store credit or a refund minus a 10% restocking fee. Harnesses built to custom measurements are exchange-only.
Wipe with a damp cloth after muddy or salty walks and work in a leather conditioner every two or three months. Rain is fine. Air dry away from direct heat rather than on a radiator, and do not submerge it.
Free unlimited exchanges until the fit is right, and a meal for a shelter dog with every order. Tak.
Free US shipping · 2–3 business days · 30-day returns
Two numbers decide the size, and they are taken differently: the neck loose, the chest snug. That difference is where most returns come from.
Like a necklace. Over the back of the neck, hanging down so the bottom of the loop sits roughly at the middle of the chest. Loose, not snug, because the loop has to pass over your dog's head.
Enter a neck measurement between 4 and 40 inches.
The full circumference of the ribcage at its deepest, just behind the front legs. Snug this time, with two fingers flat under the tape. This is the number the harness is sized on.
Enter a girth measurement between 6 and 60 inches.
These do not change the arithmetic. They change which way we round when a measurement sits on a boundary.
