Collar or no Collar?

[PJ's Mom]

Mine don't wear a collar at home...only when we go out.

[buckner]

My dog doesn't even have a "collar". I believe when we adopted her, she came with one... but lordy, that's far too small now. We use a harness on her instead. It helps her back when she's walking on a leash, and the vet recommended it with our past dog when she had back surgery. We didn't even want to go down that road with Daisy, so it's a harness instead. We don't even have an ID tag on her either.. now I'm feeling like a bad dog owner. We don't have a fenced backyard, so when she's outside with my dad, she uses a leash. And when she's out with me, she follows my commands so I don't need a leash for her. I carry one incase, but I'm training her for certain things and trying to clean up her act a bit... her "piggish" act. And oh yes, her harness is always on her unless she's in the bathtub.

[MariaM]

Major's collar is always on him. In my situation, it has to be. Alot of people think its safer to have a collar on a dog 24/7, and some people don't. The hazard with keeping it on him while you're not home is it could get caught in a crate or something around the house. You could give your house a good check for things it could get caught on, because you never know. But I still think its safer to keep one on him as much as possible.

[ZackAbby]

Collars all the time for us. I get worried that they'll somehow get out of the house with no ID if they don't have them on. Sometimes they get to run around a little without them after their baths, but then they get very excited because Zack gets to put on his "tux" and Abby gets to wear her "prom dress."

[lv4dogs]

My dogs NEVER wear a collar when inside the house because one time a few years ago Nanook's tags became stuck in the heat register cover. Thank god I was home & the heat was off. But I won't chance that ever again.

I have heard of a few other freak accidents involving collars in the home too.

They are all trained to not run out the door or run away, they are very loyal, trained well, have a good recall and have microchips just in case.

[sammy101]

mine ALWAYS have their collars on.I cant stand it when i see dogs with no collars on.You never know what could happen

[cocker_luva]

jesse's is on all the time, except for a bath and groom up.

[cali]

My dogs NEVER wear a collar when inside the house because one time a few years ago Nanook's tags became stuck in the heat register cover. Thank god I was home & the heat was off. But I won't chance that ever again.

I agree, when happy was a pup happy and perky were both kept in the bathroom together when we were not home, well they were playing and happys jaw got stuck in perkys collar, after that collars came off.

[Pit Chick]

My own wear their collars all the time except bed time. I take them off when we go to sleep because I don't want the jingling tags to wake me up and if the fosters in the other room hear the tags jingle in the middle of the night, they'll all wake up and start barking.

My suggestion for your boyfriend would be to compramise. The dog wears the collar most of the time, but he doesn't have to wear it to bed.

[BitsyNaceyDog]

My dogs wear them outside, but not inside. Buster and Charlie like to burrow in their blankets and I fear them getting stuck and hurt with their collars on. Nacey and Nova both wear harnesses and are way to active to waer them in the house, they are always wrestling with eachother. Bitsys hair mats very easily, so I don't keep one on her for that reason.

[Suki Wingy]

by collar I assume we are talking about this or this:


I know several people who insist on attatching the tags on to a choke or slip collar and keeping it on their dogs 24/7

[ParNone]

Mine are never left alone in the house with their collar on. I was home when Murph got his caught one day. I saw how easily it could happen and how easily he panicked and would have choked himself to death if I hadn't been there. I've never had any of mine bolt from the front door and take off for parts unknown. Murph's the only one I've ever had to be careful about with the front door (and now that he's old, not even then) and the furthest he ever went was the neighbors.

So I view the collar in the house as way bigger a risk then no collar. The only time mine wear a collar with tags is if we do something like hiking or if they're outside all day when I'm not home. And with having the Collies now, who are a lil' too noisy for being left outside unsupervised, that never happens.

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[manda99]

Smokey wears a harness and we take it off occasionally. Usually at night.
We call it "taking off his bra."

[sabies]

Sadie's comes off when she is inside and I am home. It is on when she is outside or home alone. I figured if there was a fire or she somehow got out I would want people to know where her home was. Never thought about it catching on something .

I think she's more comfortable sleeping without it but not sure if I'll ever know if that's true.

[sammy101]

Originally posted by Suki Wingy
...I know several people who insist on attatching the tags on to a choke or slip collar and keeping it on their dogs 24/7

my RB Dalmatian wore one all her life.she never had problems with it.