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04-07-2016, 03:21 PM | #16 |
YT 2000 Club Donating Member | I use a water collar for dock jumping and water work. I keep it high up on the neck to avoid the trachea. Walking is on a harness Obedience work on a flat collar which is the rule for competition. By then my dog has learnt not to pull on lead.... I use no collars on any size dog in the house. All my dogs are microchipped
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04-08-2016, 02:45 AM | #17 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: ny
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| and yes mine is microchipped as well, but I do feel it is important to have a tiny collar on her just in case..... since she is potty trained to go in our (fenced) yard but it makes me feel better/ |
04-08-2016, 09:44 AM | #18 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: New Yok, NY
Posts: 723
| I use a collar for tags only and a harness when walking. My dogs are bigger so I don't worry too much about their trachea collapsing. The great thing about the collar and tags is they make a sound when they walk so I can always find them in the apt.
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04-08-2016, 03:54 PM | #19 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Texas
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| I do the same. Cricket wears her collar for tags and her harness for walking.How big are your dogs?
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04-08-2016, 04:31 PM | #20 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: New Yok, NY
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| Mine are both 14 pounds. Big and Beautiful. I would never walk them on their collar and I always use their harness or their winter coats that have a d-ring attached
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04-08-2016, 04:38 PM | #21 |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jan 2013 Location: Texas
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| Cricket is 8 lbs. 😃
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04-10-2016, 05:13 AM | #22 |
Donating 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2015 Location: Jacksonville, FL USA
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| Both of our girls are chipped and I carry the information about their shots etc. on a card provided by their vet. Bella had a small trachea and we decided that she would never wear a collar. Now Bailey has come along and we have decided no collar for her either. These little guys have a tendency to have problems with tracheal collapse and a collar could be a factor. Getting too tight, getting it hung on something, too many ways that a collar can cause issues and so little to be gained by putting one on them.
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04-10-2016, 08:03 AM | #23 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 9,462
| I dont know if my suggestion about break away cat collars was missed...for those that want to use a collar strictly to hang your babys tags on, use a cat collar...they break away if the collar gets hung on something, yet you have another layer of ID protection on your baby.Never use the collar as attachment for a leash....always use halter type harnesses.....but the break away cat collars work perfectly to hang tags on and yet are safe. |
04-10-2016, 08:05 AM | #24 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: ny
Posts: 816
| Hi Yorkie mom- I have never heard of the breakaway collar? How exactly does it work? Ty |
04-10-2016, 02:39 PM | #25 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 9,462
| It is a collar designed especially for cats....I get mine at my vet office....but I have bought them on line too.... |
04-10-2016, 02:49 PM | #26 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
Posts: 9,462
| "Kitty Break-Away Collars"....they dont buckle on, they have a kind of twisting motion to close it, and it easily breaks away if the collar/tags/etc get hung on something the dog/cat pulls back or struggles when it realizes it is hung up...the collar breaks away....you may loose your collar, but your dog wont hang itself! |
04-10-2016, 04:36 PM | #27 | |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Southeastern, PA
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I do not use any collar at all. Harness with name tag plus micro-chipped. A friend of mine had a very VERY small chiweenie and purchased one of these break-away collars. She got out of the fence and they found her 2 days later in the shrubbery. I will not get into detail but it wasn't pretty, for the collar failed. Yes it can happen and therefore, I choose not to use any collar.
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04-10-2016, 05:18 PM | #28 | |
Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: Southeastern, PA
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I do not use any collar at all. Harness with name tag plus micro-chipped. A friend of mine had a very VERY small chiweenie and purchased one of these break-away collars. She got out of the fence and they found her 2 days later in the shrubbery. I will not get into detail but it wasn't pretty, for the collar failed. Yes it can happen and therefore, I choose not to use any collar.
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04-10-2016, 06:01 PM | #29 | |
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04-18-2016, 07:24 PM | #30 |
Resident Yorkie Nut Donating YT 20K Club Member Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Texas
Posts: 27,451
| Depends on the pup whether a collar is ok or not. I have yorkies who walk fine with a collar and others who don't. Collars do no harm if they are not tugging. I will say that most need harnesses, but not etched in blood IMHO.
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