Your dog's collar.

[Smilla]

Heehee...maybe I'll try to think of Lefty differently, but I don't think there's any way he could be described as "elegant."

[k9krazee]

I like my dogs collarless as well, I absolutely hate the way the hair grows on the neck from the collar, I just got back from a month away and my mom can't stand naked dogs so Jack now has that lovely ring around his neck...So I usually keep the collars off or very loose in the house and tighten them up for walks or slip on a harness or halti.

[ParNone]

Yeh I think mine look better when nothing's interfering with their neck hair, especially Oz and Gull. They have such thick, gorgeous manes around their necks, I hate to see a collar ruining it. I think they look best in pictures with nothing around their necks (squashing the hair down) too, so it's all poofy.

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[cali]

well my dogs a a million differnt collars, harnesses and halters lol Ripley ALWAYS wears a tight fitting collar. period. he is a master escape artist, and while he no longer takes off out doors are slips through the gate, people DO open our side gate sometimes, whilke I had the gate locked for a while, our front door died(it no longer opens at all, my brother or I have to lean out the window to bring in the mail and newspaper lol) so my brother had to go back to useing the side gate. for flyball he has a tight none tagged collar. he actually wears it all the times right now as his tagged collar broke and none of our other collars fit him properly.

Misty has her tagged smily face collar wich she wears most of the time, tightly, she always wears a collar not because she goes anywhere, she wont leave the yard with the gate standing wide open lol but because Perky and Blair like to provoke her to fight, and we need to be able to grab her easy. she also has several un-tagged collars, a harness and a halti, and she wears a clipped up chain collar(I added a clasp to a training collar,so it works like a martingale) when I want to give her hair time to grow in properly.

Happy sometimes wera s a collar and sometimes does'nt, latly she has been though as the summer games are going on near my house, and well sports gets Happy rearing to go play with them lol otherwise she does not wear a collar at all, its not like she is going to run away, she wont even leave my side lol

Blair and Perky always wear their collars, Perky because she looks weird without one, but she also has decorated collars for freestyle, Blair has no tags but he is a brat and we gotta be able to grab him somehow, my mom always complains when I take his collar off lol they both wears then tight enugh to slip 2 fingers in.

[cyber-sibes]

Mine are a little loose, but I don't think they can slip out.

[sandragonfly]

my crayola has a permnante orange plastic collar that can be slipped out. (orange collar is for service dogs) -

but I do sometimes take it (and martingale) off only in the house (impossible to run away) so he can sleep all he want to!

on outrips, at parks or everywhere, he has his own blue martingale, impossible to slip off. but it doesn't matter because he almost never is on leash (in fenced areas) and never would try to run away.

posted by jenluckenbach

I ask mainly because 9 out of 10 dogs that come into the grooming shop have collars WAY too large for them. Now, they may walk nicely with their owner, but they DON'T want to willingly come into the shop and they are constanly slipping out and getting away. It is frustrating and I think very dangerous for a dog to be able to get off its leash/collar.

this is why I put on our leash (without latch) on any dog and put one side through the loop (handler) before we ask the owners to take the leash off! maybe you can try this so they'd not run away. I know, beside our shops, they still should tight a little bit. :/

[crsvstang]

Reggie & Tori's collars fit well so they don't slip over their heads.

Mick he wears a harness since he slips out of his collar.

[Suki Wingy]

Niño has loose skin on his neck (forgot what that was called) and it bunches off so his is loose enough for him to slip out of it but I would never dream of attaching a lead to it! It is only for ID, he wears a prong outside the house. (and still pulls hard)
edited to add he will take any and every opportunity to run away so ID is a must and of course he is chipped too.

[*LabLoverKEB*]

Originally posted by vinjashira
it's loose enough to insert 2 fingers in but not so loose that it slips off.

Same here!

We take sadie's collar off at night, so when she shakes her head, the tags don't make any noise.

[lute]

if your dog's collar could sip over the top of his head, why have one on him. it won't do much good.

[Suki Wingy]

Yes it would, for ID purposes, but if he gets caught on something he won't strangle himself!

[king2005]

When I had a dog, he was collarless. they seemed to bother his throat & he would barf. but when I removed the collar, he didn't get sick.

He just had a very sensitive system. He was well trained to there was no issue of him running away. If he wasn't in the yard, we knew where he was. he walked around the block to go see the other parent (our parents split up & dad moved around the block)