i recentley purchased a normal set of reins and my daughter hated them so i started searching online for an answer to my problems and came across this harness, i was slighlty doubtfull that she would like these either as she is very independant but thought it was worth ago, i let my daughter point out which animal she wanted and she has i thought picked the horse. The parcel arrived very quickly and i gave the harness to my daughter the first thing she did was cuddle them and then demanded it to be put on her, we couldn't get her back in the house and everytime we tried to take the harness off she cried in the end we had to wait till she fell asleep to remove the horse backpack. the next morning the first thing she cried for was her horse on so she ended up eating breakfast,lunch and tea in it we eventually got the reins of her by offering her a packet of sweets. She love's wearing them and it has made our trip's out that bit better. The reins are well made and automatically lovable.