Please Remove Your Collars

[beeniesmom]

Oh Goodness!
How scary. I got shivers too.
It reminded me of what happened with Beenie a few months ago.
She was playing with my niece and was chasing the ball.
She ran behind a recliner to retrieve it and her collar got caught in the side lever and she started choking. I acted quicky but Beenie was struggling with me. Finally, I got her loose. In the mean time she got so scared she pooped everywhere.
She was very unresponsive for about 15 minutes. I thought she was in shock. She eventually started acting normal. I gave her a bath to clean off the poo. I was shaking for a good hour after it happened. I still feel sick when I think about it.

[chocolatepuppy]

Lacey and RB Mandy had a 'collar' incident once. Luckily hubby and I got them free fast enough. Layla will chew and/or pull on Laceys collar. I bought Lacey a collar, I'm not sure what you call it, but it can be unsnapped without having to pull on it to get any prong through a hole to get it off. That, along with teaching Layla not to chew on Laceys collar makes me feel better. Also, my dogs don't play unattended.

*edited to add* looked it up in Foster and Smith ,it's called a quick release buckle.

[pitc9]

Many {{hugs}} to you after going through such a HORRIBLE thing!

I'm glad everyone is okay now, this collar looks like a good one!
http://www.cole-co.ca/cole.htm

I keep collars on my pups 24x7.
They used to be loose in the house all the time, but they've gotten themselves in to a destructive phase and they are now back in crates and both have broken themselves out of crates in the past so I thank you for the reminder about collar safety!! I will be taking their collars off when they go in crates every morning from now on. I will also be looking into the Cole collars because mine play VERY rough. I consider myself very lucky that my pups have only gotten tangled up in collars once.

[.sarah]

My dogs are all seperated when we leave the house. The Labs are crated and Mandy is loose, but she just sleeps. If they were to get their jaws caught in another's collar (which has happened before with Nova and Luka) I'd be right there to get them loose. I'm sorry for what you had to go through.