Please Remove Your Collars

[Canis-Lupess]

This happened to our Mist a few years ago but it was out in the street and I was walking her on the lead on the way back from a walk when a dog on the loose attacked her, staffie x pitbull, and got hold of her collar and ear together. Mist was choking so I undid the collar but because the other dog had hold of her ear too, it didn't get it off but Mist was able to breathe again.

Obviously being out and about, she had to have her collar on. In the UK, it is against the law for a dog to not have a collar and ID tag attached to it out in public. Speaking of which, our Jess managed to lose her ID tag so I need to get another.
In the end, the stupid dippy owner of the dog couldn't get it off so I told her to pick the dogs body up, turn it on it's side and then I used my fingers to wrench it's bloody teeth apart and then told her to pull it back as I held it's mouth open. It worked...and prevented anymore damage to our Mists ear at the same time.

Stupid cow had no control over it at all. Mind, most of the times it had attacked our Jess and Mist, our Jess and Mist won, it was just on that occasion it managed to get the advantage on our Mist.

The stupid woman moved away in the end so we don't have to put up with her and her dogs anymore.

[dab_20]

That must've been soo scary! I'm so sorry that had to happen to you, but it goes to show what can happen to dogs when their collars are left on. I'm soo glad that they are both alright.

Once, when Sammy was a puppy, we heard him making weird noises in his kennel at night and my mom went down to let him out to go potty. He was hanging by his collar. Good thing we were there or he woulden't have made it. He just had a sore neck and some missing hair.

[Suki Wingy]

wow, I can't believe how many of our own members had this happen, that means it's not as rare as I thought! I take Niño's collar off a lot inside but my parents always put it back on him because he gets out a lot. (or used to, he hasn't in a long while!) I'm ordering one of those dog tag like ones too though because he seems to be anoyed by all his other collars, and some of them leave the area a little irritated. oh nevermind, they only come up to 14".

[areias]

I thought of your story while I was reading this... wondered if you'd seen it yet...

Is the 'collar issue' an issue if you've only got uno dog?

That must have been really scary for you.

Obviously not in the way that happened to me, however I have heard of dogs getting caught on a tree, hanging themselves, breaking necks when a tree catches the collar. It's very lose/lose...if someone finds the dog and thinks its a stray because it dosen't have a colllar..5 of mine are microchipped but if someone dosen't check, I don't know...I'm still looking for alternative.

Here's one, what do you think?
http://www.tagxpress.com/DogCats_NecklaceID.htm

[Kfamr]

I'd imagine with the ID necklace, they'd still have the chances of getting it caught. I think your best bet is supervision. If they aren't seperated when you leave home, take the collars off then. But when people are home and opening doors, I'd keep the collars on.

[Pam]

I had a similar situation several years ago with two former dogs that have since gone to the RB. Whitney, my standard poodle, had been playing in the next room with Ashley, my miniature poodle. All of a sudden I heard ungodly yelping. I ran in to see Ashley hanging from Whitney's collar by her jaw. It only took a second to free her, but I shook all over for about a half hour after it was over.

I never put collars on them again (except for walks or grooming) and Bella and Ripley don't wear them except for walks/grooming either. I am soooo glad you were there when that happened and that both dogs are OK.

[Husky_mom]

once I had an incident with a collar.......

at this time it was just one dog that caught his own jaw in the collar......can you imagine a dog with his mouth open and moving like crazy, bumping on everything trying to release himself from that, besides being freaked out, I literally had to sit on him so he could stay still till I could cut the collar......his collar was not that loose so he was pretty much very tight, I still don´t know how he got caught like that........

glad everyone is Ok.......