Dragging the kid was with out question, just wrong. Through, if needed, my son will have one. There was a little girl at the Pittsburgh Zoo last weekend, of which was on one of those leashes. It wasn't a big deal really. She a couple times, seemed to want to walk away from her parents. Once she hit the end of the leash,she just cam bac to them.

I'm also a rather paranoid indiviual, which makes me leary of some nut job grabbing my son.