Julius-K9 Color & Gray Adjustable Leash - Blue-Gray - 2 cm

Julius-K9 Color & Gray Adjustable Leash - Blue-Gray - 2 cm is JULIUS-K9's adjustable everyday leash in blue-gray, 2 cm wide, with the rubber threads woven into the strap that the Color and Gray range is built around.

Key Features

• Rubber threads woven into the strap: The grip is built into the textile rather than being a rubber sleeve glued on top, which is the detail that stops the strap sliding through your hand on a wet morning or when a dog lunges.
• Weather resistant: JULIUS-K9 build it for rain and wet, and it comes back out of the sea without turning into a rope.
• Textile that is pleasant to hold: Soft to the hand rather than the plastic-coated webbing that burns when a dog pulls through it.
• Hungarian design, straps made in Germany: JULIUS-K9 design in Hungary and have the webbing woven in Germany.

How The Adjustment Works

• The strap runs 240 cm end to end and clips back on itself to give three working lengths: 215 cm, 160 cm and 125 cm.
• At its longest it can go over a shoulder or round the waist, which leaves both hands free on a walk and is the reason to buy an adjustable leash rather than a fixed one.
• At its shortest it is a short city leash with a handle.
• Clip it back to the harness at the middle length and it becomes a tether, for a cafe table or the back of the car while you load the boot.
• Check the length is properly clipped home each time you change it. An adjuster left half engaged is the one failure point a leash like this has that a plain one does not.

Picking A Length

• Around a metre keeps a dog at your side. That is the length for a pavement, a lift, a vet waiting room and anywhere with traffic close by.
• Around 1.2 metres is the everyday compromise, close enough for a street and long enough to let him sniff a verge without dragging him off it.
• Two metres gives a dog real room on a park path or a quiet beach, and it is too much leash in a crowd.
• Width is about the dog, not the length. The 1.4 cm straps suit small and medium dogs; the 2 cm straps are for a strong dog and give a better grip in the hand.
• No leash length makes a recall safe. Off the leash is a training question, not an equipment one.

Looking After It

• Hand wash in cool water with a little mild soap and hang it up to dry out of direct sun. No machine and no tumble dryer, because heat is what stiffens webbing.
• Rinse the salt out after the beach. Salt left to dry in a strap abrades the fibres from the inside and is the main reason a leash here wears out before its time.
• Work the clip if it starts to stick, with a single drop of light oil, and wipe the excess off so it does not mark the coat.
• Look at the stitching at the handle and at the clip every few weeks, and look at it harder on a dog who pulls. Replace it the moment the webbing frays or the gate on the clip stops springing shut cleanly.

Good To Know

• 2 cm wide, in blue-gray. The strap is 240 cm end to end and clips to 215 cm, 160 cm or 125 cm.
• The longest setting goes over a shoulder or round the waist, which is the main reason to buy this rather than a fixed length leash.
• The Color and Gray range is a Hungarian design with the straps woven in Germany, and the grip comes from rubber threads worked into the textile rather than a sleeve stuck on the outside.
• It will clip to any harness or collar ring, not only a JULIUS-K9 one.
• We stock this range in several colours, widths and lengths. Tell us the dog and the walk and we will tell you which one to take.