Re: Collars on Dogs

[Lucy & Yogi]

as the tags get caught in the vent
while he sleeps and then when he wakes  he'll have the vent grill hanging
off his neck
Been there, done that - got bonked on the head with the floor 
register.  Cessi hooked herself into the register (wintertime though - 
hogging the heat?) and being relatively calm, didn't panic, just whacked me 
in the head with it so that I would wake up and get that rotten thing *off* 
her neck.  

That was when she had all of her tags on her collar - I've removed the 
excess, but I still keep a single ID tag on my guys 'cause you just never 
know...  I've brought home several strays who could have been taken back 
home to Momma if they had their tags on.  (They ended up finding their 
homes, but one had to spend the night here because we found him around 
11:00pm, and it was too late to call anyone for help locating his people - 
I'd go crazy if that was me looking for one of my babies).

Jen
P.S. We have "home" collars, "cottage" collars and "Collingwood" collars - 
each with a local address or similar identifying "home" locator, and local 
phone #s.  It wouldn't do me any good if someone found my dog (for example) 
in Collingwood while we were there for the weekend and they were trying to 
call me at home.

Collars on Dogs

[Rose Tierney]

Hi Lisa Jayne,

Never never never leave a chain choke collar or any other type of choke or
martingale collar on an unattended dog. These are training collars only to
be used when the dog is on leash with a human on the other end:-)

I personally do not leave collars on the majority of my dogs because they
play together and I do not want their jaws to get caught in another's
collar.

If a dog is to be tied out for any reason then a broad flat buckle collar
is preferable, for daily use for the single family pet with a thick coat a
rolled leather buckle collar is best as it won't cut the hair and make a
ring around the neck.

Here in Canada many houses are heated and cooled using forced air which
means the dog in summer may hog the vent. If he has tags on his collar this
is another accident waiting to happen as the tags get caught in the vent
while he sleeps and then when he wakes  he'll have the vent grill hanging
off his neck which will send a nervous dog into flight mode!

Rose T.