Collar or no Collar?

[Shelteez2]

The shelties almost never ever wear collars. Either in the house or when we go somewhere.

[Suki Wingy]

One of those people I'm talking about's dog got it caught on the heater and dragged it arround and almost died.

[KYS]

I have mixed feelings about collars/safety.

Sheba never wears a collar unless we leave the house.
(she has a bad neck)

Rocky has a big strong neck and he wears a collar/ID
all the time.

I like a collar for ID purposes but I do worry that
a collar can get caught on something.

I tried break away collars but ended up going
back to a regular collar for Rocky.

[Soapets]

Sandi and Oreo always have their leather collars on, except when they get a bath once or twice a year.

[Vette]

I never have a collar on Kirby. he scratches the ever living daylights out of his neck,, unless hes distracked from it with treats or something. after a little while he remembers it on him and back straching at his neck again. so no collars for him.

Originally posted by sammy101
my RB Dalmatian wore one all her life.she never had problems with it.

Same with my bridge girl Muffin. i used to have a cloth collar for her,, and it made her hair go funny and it bugged her. so i switched over to a traning collar. she never had problems with it either. and it was hair freindly.

[IRescue452]

Autumn always has a collar. If she ran off I don't think anybody in this area would think to check for a microchip. Also, some chips can't be read by certain scanners. Sonny even wears a collar and hes an indoor only cat.

[schteve_d]

Docker has had a collar on since the day I got him, but I bet that Buddy and Tasha have not worn a collar in almost five years. I took them off of them because they would use them to unfair advantage: Whenever they would play-fight they would grab each other by the collar and chuck the other around and I thought they might hurt each other. Now they just grab each other by the throat!

[lv4dogs]

I personally know of a couple dogs that have died and a couple more that I heard of while working at the vets office while wearing the choke collars and many many more that were injured.

One was a pup in a car, the owners ran into the gas station for a second & the dog got his collar stuck on the seatbelt thing & hung himself to death.

The other was out in the fenced in yard while the owner was in the shed, the dog got his choke collar stuck in the fence & suffocated himself to death.

For this reason my dogs only wear a choke collar if needed for the begining stages of training and only if I am right there with them every second! If I have to leave their side, even for one minute it comes right off.

[GraciesMommy]

I was gonna add...when Gracie was a baby baby I didnt keep a collar on her when she was in the crate..I was too afraid of her getting her foot hung in it and choking...I had a fear of that happening..

[anna_66]

Originally posted by LorraineO

tell your BF to either leave the collar alone or pay the $$ to get him microchipped!!

Jennifer did say that Duncan was chipped.


Yes mine wear them all the time even though they are chipped. I just don't like the idea of something happening and them being out without id. All their collars are loose so if they did get caught on something I think they would be able to wiggle out of them.

Now I must add something kinda funny. I said we keep them loose right? Well we have to keep tightening Bon's up because when him and Roxey play she always loosens it up. In fact he's once again lost his collar in the yard Guess Bon needs a new kind of collar hu?

[jackie]

i always take my dogs collars off in the house.

[jennifert9]

Anna, it sounds to me like Roxey is trying to "lose" Bon!! She's probably thinking, "If I can just get this collar off him and chase him toward the fence, maybe he'll get out and I won't have to compete with him anymore....darn cute puppy!!

[wolfsoul]

Timber's collar is on all the time. She's never had any problems with it, but she does like it better off -- I think it starts to irritate her nexk after a while. I think that it's better for her to have her collar on 24/7 because my aunt keeps her outside most of the time (Timber doesn't like being inside -- I think she gets clostrophobic or something).

When I get my catahoula, he'll only have his collar on when we go out. I'd be worried that he would somehow get away. ID on a collar is so simple that anyone could pick him up and just bring him to me. Of course he will be chipped and tattooed as well, incase he slips out of his collar or he gets out of my house.

[tricollie4me]

Collars on both the kitty (an inside-only cat) and the pup, 24/7.

[Buddy Blaze Lover]

Blaze's collar stays on 24/7!