collars
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| i like the leather rolled collar...it seems to help with the matting, however, the leather does bleed...pandas red one has caused her to have a pink neck.. |
| Thanks for your reply. What do you think of harnesses? |
I go with no collar. It's cheap and will never cause mats.  |
| Thank you! If only it were that easy. |
| I use a really loose choke chain collar on mine. But the only time I have it on them is when we are going for a walk or to the dog park. Around the house I don't have collars on them. |
| We do use a halter for walks and I really like how it solved the pulling problem. but we get matts with it -so as soon as the walk is done the harness is off and I am checking the pressure points each night.
I cant beleive I am saying this but if I had to pick between the pulling or the matts I'll take the matts. I would rather have the better control with her when we walk. |
ifliaa66 wrote: Thank you! If only it were that easy.
No, I was actually serious. I never use a collar on my dogs in the house-- only for walks and then I just use nylon slipleads. I switched to a Halti for walks on my Komondor because his cords are so thick around his neck that it's easier than trying to find a place to put the collar that will lay flat. |
| I don't use a collar, either. A slip lead is what we use when we go outside of the house. For ID Bingley is microchipped. |
| No collar at home for us either. Chewie uses a regular nylon flat collar with his tags when we go somewhere, and he also is microchipped. |
I use a leather rolled collar with their ID tags on them. It is the natural leather and does not bleed into my dog's coat. I keep this collar on them at all times, inside and outside, because I am not willing to risk that by some freak accident they get out and have no ID.  For walking Fred, my OES, and Byron , my Great Pyr, I use a prong collar. I put a turtle neck collar, which I cut off from an old turtle neck sweater, on Fred first then the prong collar over that. This suggestion which I believe came from Butterstotch has help out tremendously from breaking Fred's coat on his chest area and neck area. Thank you Butterstotch or whomever for suggesting this in another post. If the leather collar starts to lose it luster I take some shoe polish put it on it and voila it looks like a brand new collar again. |
| I was advised for sheepies not to wear collars, only when walking of course.
Then I read a post on here about a year ago, saying a dog had jumped up on a gate, then the collar got caught on the pole and unfortunately came to a sad end - Ollies and Jacks collars come off religoulsy after walkies mainly for the latter reason. You never know what they might get caught on - Ollie lies by a radiator and and he could easily get his collar caught on the termastat. |
| Right now we use an adjustable collar and keep it loose when Breena is not on a walk. I wish we would be able to not use one but right now Bree is in a daydreaming stage and I need to take her out on a leash even though we have a fenced in backyard. She forgets what she is out there for and if a bird flies over head I can't get her attention to save my life.
Her collar doesn't leave mats but I do take it off when she gets brushed every day. |
| We've been using a choke chain to train with-- he's getting better, so hopefully we won't need that for much longer. However, the rescue person we got our sheepie from suggested using a neck warmer (like you'd go skiing with) and put it around the dog's neck and then put the choke chain over that-- prevents matts and the hair from breaking off or getting stuck in the chain. She also says she gets a better response from the dog when he has the neck warmer on.
I was concerned about the heat and having one on, but I would give it a try anyhow and just watch your dog closely to make sure he's not getting too warm. |
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