Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 8:24 pm Post subject: Does your dog wear their collar in the house?
Hi,
The reason I ask this question is after a scary incident I had with Charlie this morning! Charlie has always worn his collar, doesn't really like it being taken off - he just sits and stares at it until we put it back on!!
I was going out for a few hours today so dropped my son and Charlie off at my parents. My parents aren't particularly doggy people, but they tolerate charlie at their house as long as he stays in the kitchen and doesn't leave hairs/muddy paw prints all over the rest of the house!!
I was settling charlie into their kitchen and filling his water bowl when my sister unexpectedly came through the back door - Charlie went to her to greet her, but as he came round the back of her legs he got his collar stuck on one of the handles of the kitchen cupboards. He made an awful noise and was thrashing about so much that I couldn't get him unhooked or take his collar off - so I had to literally wrestle him towards the cupboard to get enough slack in his collar to unhook him.
Obviously this really shook both of us up, and got me thinking what might have happened if I hadn't been in the room with him.
So do your dogs where their collars in the house? I always felt better with Charlie wearing his incase he ever got out so that whoever found him could contact us from his identity tag - but after today I'm wondering if we're doing the right thing?
Would be interested to hear your opinions. Thanks xx
What a thing to have happened! Hopes Charlies ok after the event!
Maybe you could loosen his collar when he goes to your parents, so that he could escape if something like that happened while you weren't there, or maybe just remove it. Probably better he can escape or have no risk of strangling than the slimmer chance of him getting out of the house.
Or having him in a different room at your parents but that doesn't seem like a possibility.
Personally Mine don't wear collars indoors, they get taken off after a walk and put back on for walkies.
I keep the collars on - the collars carry their identity tags and I'd rather not have either of them have to go to the vets to get checked for a chip if they should get out of the house.
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Definitely not, I have a friend who's puppy hung itself in its crate when it got his collar caught and another who came home to find their 5 month old Staffie had accidently hung himself by his collar on the kitchen door handle
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Mine don't where their collars in the house. I think I read stories on the forum when we first got Dibly and I made the decision not to leave them on then.
My previous dogs had always worn their collars all the time but to be fair there were no microchips in those days.
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and another who came home to find their 5 month old Staffie had accidently hung himself by his collar on the kitchen door handle 
