Does your dog always wear a collar?

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I rescued a dog today :D (well ish i took it in after the local kids gave it to me as ive rescued loads over the years lol)! and it hadnt got a collar/tag on

Ive had 3 dogs of my own over the past 14 years (two at once and one remaining) and they have always worn collars even at night and ive never ever had a problem (even play fighting etc)

For the dog i had today, i rung the dog warden who was coming out whne luckily the owner appeared after the dog had escaped out of the garden (very easily done...) but if the dog had the collar with a number on then the dog could have gone home in a matter of minutes.....

do you dogs always wear collars? if not why? (not slating anyhow btw just curious)!
 
both always wear collars- unless they have got very wet on a walk and they have the collars off while they are shut in the dog room drying off as otherwise they have a wet patch left on their necks :)
 
My dogs are chipped, but yes they also always wear their collars (24/7) with a tag which has our name and tel no. on it.
 
I have to admit that mine dont at home but after some recent fighting between them I am making them get used to them. I am just struggling to find the right one for the little one. When I rescued him he was tied up with a collar which had dug in around his neck and still has grey hairs around his neck like a collar from the scars. We just use a harness to walk him but am buying him a thinnish one for xmas.
 
Nope, my girl and my mums girls have never worn collars and never will. We use slip leads when needeed, like trips to the vet, and simply don't find the need for collars. AND, they go into the bushes, hedges and I'd be terrified if they got caught up - which has happened before.
Mine is chipped now, and we live in a remote part so don't see traffic or other dogs much.
 
Our dogs are chipped but do not wear collars and never have done. My OH has this idea that they are going to get caught on a branch when running through the woods.

They are walked in slip leads and all was well until about 3 weeks ago when one went AWOL when on a walk (we've had them 10 years). I reported it to the dog warden and a passing motorist did the same, so she was soon brought to our house.
My OH was given a 'talking to' by the warden, telling him it was illegal to have the dog out without a collar/identification .... that she was chipped did not suffice. The fine for this faux pas is up to £5000. We aren't to be prosecuted this time but if it happens again, we will.

We still haven't got them collars but they haven't been off the lead since. We think the snow disorientated her and don't want to risk it again.
 
Nope. All the foster's do obviously and the whippet does (house collar when inside and martingale when out) but most of the others rarely wear one. Only because they are all chipped, and they are never out of my sight while off lead and have absolutely no chance of escaping from the house (8 foot stone wall around the garden and no access out via the front). So I'm happy for them not to wear them, I do though have a serious collar fetish so while some of them don't always wear one I do have a huge collection of lovely collars that they wear when going out somewhere special or if I want them to look nice!!!:D

I don't leave collars on in the house as they play fight alot and if one gets taken off and ripped apart I wouldn't be happy (as the whippet did to the JRT the other day!!!:mad:).
 
The two little dogs collars only come off when they have a bath or it gets very wet. They go straight back on once it/they are dry, I don't like letting them out in the garden without a collar.
Toby (our lab) only wears his for walks, he used to wear it all the time but twice we have found him stuck with a claw caught in his collar, not sure how he does it and he just sits there quietly stuck til someone notices.
 
Yes, because it is illegal not to have an ID on

Also if I was to loose him, it would be a lot quicker for someone to just ring my mobile number off the tag than take him down the vet and check his microchip (and there's that awful possibility the micrchip might fail!)

I'd just prefer to cover every avenue.

and as I've found out, if Harley reverses suddenly when I have hold of his collar, it will come off ! (he has a lot of skin around his neck, if I do it up any tighter it's too tight. Very annoying!) so if he got caught I'm sure it would come off. But he never really goes out of my sight, so I'm not too worried.
 
Nope - he wears it when out walking/at the park/anywhere he's off lead EXCEPT when we're at home.

Also, he doesn't wear it in the office at work - but he never comes out off lead so is never in public without it. I'm also 98% confident he won't go with anyone unless I'm there - he whinges enough about going with OH :lol: it's more if he gets the sniff of something that concerns me - he goes deaf then *banghead*

He's microchipped & his collar has a tag on with our surname, postcode and 3 contact numbers.
 
Being a good law abiding citizen, yes my dogs all wear collars and tags at all times, with the exception of when working. However, they are all loose enough to easily slip over their heads if they ever get caught on them, this does lead to a few new collar and tag sets a year between them.
 
Yes, both our two wear collars with I.D tags, unfortunately one of them has a brand new collar in her stocking this year as her last one got broken by the other dog. When they play fight/mess about, they just love to grab each other by the neck/collar and results in frayed or broken collars! They do get replaced though. We don't mind them not wearing one indoors but they always have them on when they go out.
 
Boris has never been hung by his collar and is forever bustling about in hedges, woods, overgrown ditches etc.

he has come back a few times minus his collar so we always have a spare now :)
 
All of ours do a all times, except OH's Bullmastiff whose was eaten by one of the others. :rolleyes:
I've always grown up with my dogs having collars on at all times, i think they look naked without. It's also much more reasurring with a tag. Most people would check the tag and ring th owner, whereas with the microchip alone, it's easier to call the dog warden then to take the dog down to the vet to see if the dog even has a chip.
 
do you dogs always wear collars? if not why? (not slating anyhow btw just curious)!

Nope....not legally necessary and would be dangerous when they're working.
 
Not at home, and not working / training. But he does the rest of the time:) In fairness, he would be very hard pushed to escape from my house, what with the 10 foot solid stone wall all the way round the yard with no back gate, and the front door always being bolted;)
 
Always, with ID tag, and chipped as well. Being the breed she is the likelihood of her disappearing is very high (:o) and on the one occasion she's buggered off she was returned to my front door within five minutes.
 
Always - and being sighthounds with tiny heads mine are in martingale collars in case they back out of them (Oscar did once at a county show and legged it straight into the food Hall :o so I got a martingale that day and have had them ever since)
 
Always 24/7, all tagged up, all chipped, I do not want my dogs spending 1 minute in a dog pound, which is where they will go if the dog warden is a dillbutt or his battery runs out in his scanner:D
 
Tassy does- she's a Mal and could technically run off (breed trait) she never has but just in case she has a collar and tag and is chipped.
 
gunnergundog said:
do you dogs always wear collars? if not why? (not slating anyhow btw just curious)!

Nope....not legally necessary and would be dangerous when they're working.
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You sure about that??

Under the Control of Dogs Order 1992, all dogs must wear a collar and identity tag in a public place. The tag must show the owner’s name and address. Dog wardens can enforce this law and fines of up to £5000 can be given by the Courts for an offence

Of course, if the dog is working, it is exempt from the above :).
 
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Not in the house - I think it's nice for them to have a bit of time without them, and when I had Isa it marked her fur ruff if I left it on all the time, but yes, when they're out, always. They're chipped too.

Shadow did wander off once - he was in the garden and the postie left the gate open so Shadow went for a walk. He wasn't wearing his collar a the time. Someone picked him up and as he's a lurcher they took him to the local greyhound rescue people, who scanned him, found his chip, rang me and he was back home a short time later, but it would have been easier if he'd been wearing his collar and the first person to pick him up could have rang me! So now, even if they're just going out in the garden, I pop their collars on.
 
B always wears her collar (It's sparkly... how else would everyone know she's such a little princess :p :o) It comes off for bath time and when she is being groomed.

My mums puppy always wears one but she has chewed three of Charlies (while they were on and he would have been grumbling at her the whole time) so he wont have another one on untill she stops chewing everything.

Years ago Charlie thought it would be a brilliant idea to sneak out of the garden and chase a bunny down a hole... getting his neck caught on a badger snare in the process. He managed to wriggle out of it (took half his throat with it) and we dont think he would have ever gotten free if he had his collar on. So I can see both sides of the argument.
 
Nowadays, my dogs NEVER wear a collar, with the obvious exception of collies on a chain.

When I've had a difficult dog which has been used for PD work, then possibly, it can be a useful handle!

When I've had an accident with a coursing dog, then it's always been when they've been wearing a collar (no rhyme or reason for that, but a fact!).

With the exception of a coursing dog, then none of them are ever out of my sight, and as recall is vital, then I think that a dog with a permanent collar is ugly and needless. Others will disagree with me, I'm sure, but whilst a dog is free, then no.

Alec.
 
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