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How to measure a dog or cat

How to measure a dog or cat

The importance of measuring the correct size

    Choosing the right size of harness and collar is crucial to the health and safety of your pet. If you choose a harness or collar that is too large, your pet may break free and escape, posing not only a safety hazard when outdoors, but may even get lost. This is especially true for dogs that are more active and easily excited.

    If you choose a harness or collar size is too small, affecting the pet's comfort and mobility, but also may continue to rub the pet's hair and skin, resulting in redness, abrasion, skin irritation, hair loss, bruises, causing injury to the pet in addition to the pet's resistance to the harness or collar. More seriously, it may compress the pet's trachea, affecting its normal breathing, as well as causing damage to the pet's cervical vertebrae and bones, especially for some fragile small dogs and cats. Therefore, especially for small dogs, the choice of harness and collar should be more suitable for them.

Tools needed

1. a soft ruler (soft tape measure).

2. ruler and a piece of string (if you don't have a soft tape measure).

3. pen and paper for recording the measurements, or of course you can use your cell phone (it's very rewarding to keep the records as a sign that your pet has grown up).

How to Measurement

    First of all, you need to let your dog or cat stand still, for pets that do not cooperate, you can find your friends to catch it, or prepare some snacks, in order to better complete the measurement.

1. Neck: Choose the thickest part of your pet's neck (usually near the shoulder blades) and wrap it around with a soft tape measure to get the data, if you don't have a soft tape measure, you can wrap the rope around it and measure the length of the rope with a ruler. This data is one of the most important data, Harness, Collar and clothing and many other pet products will use this data.

2. Chest: Measure the widest part of the chest, usually behind the front legs, with a soft tape measure and a ruler in the same way as above, usually the chest and back will use this data and the neck data. At the same time there are some clothes will be used.

3. Waist: For large pets and fatter pets, you may need to measure the narrowest part of the body.

4.Back: The length from the neck to the tail, which is usually required for some full-coverage harsness and clothing.

    It is best to take the above measurements twice to ensure accuracy. It is also a good idea to choose a larger size of harness and collar, and to wear the harness and collar close to your pet's skin with a two-finger margin to ensure that it does not bind too tightly.