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Originally Posted by Yorkiemom1  I used to have regular buckled collars on all my babies....then I came home from work and found one "hanging" from the side of his carrier....his tags had slipped tru the slits in the carrier and he couldnt get them out....fortunately, all that was happening was a terrified, horribly restricted little dog, restrained right up against the side of the interior of the carrier.....he was not strangling, but it taught me a lesson....that is when I got cat break away collars for all of them...used strictly to put tags on, so that is by some unfortunate event they manage to get through 3 baby gates/barriers and actually get out a door into the unfenced front yard, they will have ID besides microchips, in place!.and the collars are embroidered with my ph. # . |
Oh, how scary!!!! It's things like that that make you want to sit and watch them 24/7! They are likely to do anything at any time! If Tibbe were confined to a crate or some type of carrier while no one was home, I would remove any collar or scarf or sweater or anything not born on him just for that reason. An unobserved dog can get into so much trouble so quickly. Jilly got her collar stuck on her jaw and if I hadn't been there would have been in serious trouble no doubt by the time I got home, had I been away at the time. But, I've had many dogs in this house in my lifetime and all wore ID collars most of the time and she's the only one that happened to in this way. I think Jilly would have had a heart attack or something from the stress as she just went postal and was going around in circles and foaming at the mouth somehow - she was a mess. I could barely get her stopped circling fast long enough to get it off! After that, I take off collars if I have to confine a dog when I am gone. Thankfully, with a housebroken dog, I no longer have to confine Tibbe but when I'm gone, he still gets de-collared as he could possibly hang it up on something. Scares me to death but these dogs can get into more trouble than we can imagine when we are not watching them.