Does your dog have his collar on at all times?

[cali]

my moms 3 always wear collars, Happy and Misty only always where collars now, and only because they are very fancy martingales and they look to good to take off!

[Flatcoatluver]

T.j always wears his, Zoey wears it unless we are at agility shows or class.

[lv4dogs]

No way. Mine only wear collars when they are needed &/or supervised.

Nanook was laying on the floor once years ago when his tags became stuck in the heat vent register cover. He panicked & almost injured himself trying to free himself. Thank god I was there to untangle him. Imagine if it had happened when I was not home & the heat was on?

I've also heard of other horror stories. Granted they are kind of "freak" accidents but still if I have the chance to lessen any accident than I will do so.

[Jessika]

YES, always, even the cat! Because we just moved to a new place where I don't know, nor trust, a lot of people yet. Not only that but Charlie is VERY skittish and prone to bolting when the door is open if there is a lot of commotion going on. Not only that, but if I am EVER out walking him and for whatever reason he gets spooked and bolts, chances of him coming back even to me are pretty slim. I am so scared of one of mine running off. Charlie mostly. But Jamie is so friendly, she will walk up to ANYONE, and that scares me too.

[k9krazee]

Nope! But it depends, Micki and Jack used to rarely wear a collar but I've been experimenting and making collar covers so Micki's has been on quite a bit more Shadow ALWAYS wears a collar, but the only reason is she looks weird without it, lol! And the other two usually wear their collars all the time as well.

I understand that there are benifits to wearing collars all the time (like for quick identification purposes) but, I too have heard too many horror stories with dogs and collars...

[king2005]

With my RIP Max, he use to always wear one. Then around age 5 it was choaking him when he would lay on his couch. It was bad enough that he barfed. I made the collar super loose & that didn't help at all. So I just kept it on the door knob for when we went for a walk (but I forgot it 99% of the time). He always had it for car rides, but it was never on him, it would be tossed on the seat, just incase we had to stop to let him tinkle in a strange area (he wouldn't run away but some places have tag rules).

[sammy101]

Yes.If Kodie gets out,he is so stubborn and thinks its fun for us to go chase him around the street .Lucy wears it, even though she can be off leash.