Do you keep your dog's collar on indoors? (infections, yeast, children)
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Social media seems to be littered with lost dog reports who have no collar(or chip). Story is often that a child accidentally let them slip out the door and they bolted. But what gets me is that they never seem to have collars on(or presumably those that do are returned more quickly and don't become a story). I wonder why people do that especially if they are flight prone dogs.
No I don't. My dogs have been trained to not bolt out open doors and rarely even approach an open door. We have no small children at home anymore and our yard is very secure.
I know anything can happen...but I know my dogs. And, they're all chipped with up to date info.
Yeah fires happen, break-ins happen, etc. I guess what I don't see is the benefit to taking it off in the first place. Less jingles around the house from the tags?
When we had a dog, we took his collar off in the house because the jingling drove us nuts, especially at night since he slept in our room. He wasn't a runner or bolter. In 14 years, I think he got out of the yard twice when the gate was left open, and he just ambled over to the neighbor's house to sniff their lawn. Whenever we left the house, we always brought him in, so there was no fear that he would get out of the yard while we were away.
My dogs are chipped, and I have a Shar Pei mix who is prone to yeast infections in the neck area and belly, so indoors collars come off. Outside they wear collars with their name and my contact information on tags.
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Mine is chipped too, and he wears a nylon collar with the little tag bolted to the fabric so it doesn't jingle.
You can buy those tags in the checkout area of Petsmart or Petco. You just buy the tag, take it to the engraving machine in the store, and it comes with snap apparatus that you hammer to the collar.
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