Right now we have nothing on Tucker when he is in the house with us. If he asks to go into our backyard (completely fenced in, locked gate), we do slip a chain collar on him that has his tags...because he is microchipped, but tags are VISIBLE, as you say. Once he is back in house safely, we take chain collar off.
When we are walking him, we walk him with the chain collar on, but his leash is attached to his harness. He pulls so much- as puppies do- we felt like we were strangling him with him pulling on collar. So we are training with harness, for him to heel, and he is responding well.
I'm leaning towards eventually getting rid of harness, and just walking him with chain collar, as I don't think it will harm his fur as much?
Ooooh, Binky- GREAT idea with two leashes, one for harness/one for collar! Love it! And thanks, Tucker is adorable. He's about 3 months in that pic, right now at 5 months he's entering his awkward stage, he's ALL legs!