Originally Posted by Jovigirl I've tried a collar on Mercer many times she always gets her mouth caught in it. I've tried the breakaway and its off in a very short time. I worry about her not wearing a collar but I don't know what to do it is too dangerous having a collar on her. She gets it caught in her mouth and can't get it out then she's fighting with it and her poor little mouth is stuck open and being pulled down. She is the first dog I've never had a collar on, she is 8 months and almost 3 1/2 lbs.
My Quincy use to do that too when he was younger. I sat there one day and watched him do it, he would sit there and do it "on purpose"....
thought to myself what a dumbass, this dog is nuts! He would get it caught and then chew threw them. Each time he chewed through one I would tighten the next one, but he still managed to get his jaw stuck in it. We must have went through 6-8 collor before he finally stopped around the time he turned 2.
I couldn't figure out why he is doing it, and than I figured out that it was the tags. He. didn't like them toughing his chest. But I wasn't gonna take them off, what if he came up missing. He got over it but it tool a while.
That's exactly what Mercer does but I didn't even have tags on becausea I
just wanted her to get use to the collar. She does this with the harness also so that is only on for walks then taken off. I keep trying. She litteraly cant get away at this point because I am at my Mom's and she is kept gated off unless I am on top of her, because my mom's dog is quite a bit bigger then her. When I go home beginning of May she will have more free run of the house. She is micro chipped. I just don't know what to do because I can't have her choking herself. |