What did you do with your old dog collar?

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Is there anything momento wise that can be done with it or anything?
There are loads of things for horse hair keepsakes etc but are there any companies that do dogs?
Or has anyone done something themselves that I could maybe copy!

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Can't help, mine still gets used. It's on the buster collar, which makes regular appearances, apparently quite normal if you have multiple springers!

I reckon you could do a lovely deep frame with the collar and some special pictures? Or frame a fab picture and attach the collar/make it part of the frame? I have the horse's one and only red rosette stuck on his winning photo.

Maybe it could be part of a belt that you use occasionally?
 
My girl's collar is just tucked away in a jewellery box - I'm not sure I'd want it in a box frame at it is, as an empty collar is a bit of a stark reminder of what you've lost, in my opinion, but if someone had a good idea, I might be tempted to do something (or more likely, get someone to do something) with it! Not sure if that's much help OP!
 
when Bosworth died, I kept his collar on my dresser for 12 months. I got Flodden the same week Bosworth died. 12 months later, flodden qualified for Crufts at only his and my second show, I came home from that show and tried Bosworth's collar on Flodden. It fitted and since then Flodden has worn that collar. It would take one hell of a dog to fill Bosworths collar, but Flodden is the one to do it. And a lovely mix of both my wonderful dogs, each time I see Flodden I remember Boz
 
Bosworth said:
when Bosworth died, I kept his collar on my dresser for 12 months. I got Flodden the same week Bosworth died. 12 months later, flodden qualified for Crufts at only his and my second show, I came home from that show and tried Bosworth's collar on Flodden. It fitted and since then Flodden has worn that collar. It would take one hell of a dog to fill Bosworths collar, but Flodden is the one to do it. And a lovely mix of both my wonderful dogs, each time I see Flodden I remember Boz
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Oh that's lovely Bosworth :smile3: Flodden deserves a little photo thread of his own, it's been ages.... (hint, hint) :smile3:
 
Ooohh....... have just had a look at the "Silvershoe" link. What a lovely idea. Not cheap, no, but then if you've got that "special" dog you want to commemorate I would think it justified if that's what you really want to do.

I didn't know they were in Devon!!! Not so very far from me either :)

Just goes to show you never know what's right around the corner.........
 
Oh wow! They are expensive but lovely. It's a little collar so think the cheaper(!) price bracket.
Can't afford it right now but a definite possibility for the future.
Little dog had the same collar his whole life even though several times I tried to buy him a new one he just never looked right and I always got his old one back so it really was him.
 
Bosworth said:
when Bosworth died, I kept his collar on my dresser for 12 months. I got Flodden the same week Bosworth died. 12 months later, flodden qualified for Crufts at only his and my second show, I came home from that show and tried Bosworth's collar on Flodden. It fitted and since then Flodden has worn that collar. It would take one hell of a dog to fill Bosworths collar, but Flodden is the one to do it. And a lovely mix of both my wonderful dogs, each time I see Flodden I remember Boz
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This is lovely too! My old lab didn't wear a collar but had a basket which we eventually let the new one have. It stays safely in the sitting room though as he will chew it over night!
 
I have a stuffed toy dog with gold fur called "Silver" obviously ;) He was bought by my father to cheer me up when I was sick years ago and he wears my first dog's collar and my mum's dog's puppy collar so he carries happy memories of them all for me :)
 
poiuytrewq said:
Is there anything momento wise that can be done with it or anything?
There are loads of things for horse hair keepsakes etc but are there any companies that do dogs?
Or has anyone done something themselves that I could maybe copy!

Thanks
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I kept all the collars and leads in a huge homebase trunk. and some I use on the new dog the rest I mothballed. I put the dog tags on a tree to celebrate them.. Some put the collars in the grave with the dog some donate to charity
 
They hang on the final of the stair banisters at the landing. There's only two, my weim and my setter.
 
I am yet to lose one of mine, but my ma keeps the family dogs collars on a teddy bear that she's had since she was a child and he sits on a trunk on the end of her bed. It's nice on the odd occasion I go into her bedroom to see him sitting there with the three dogs collars on.
 
ive always let the collar go with the dog....I couldn't face having the collar back as it is so personal to the dog.......perhaps I am the odd one as everyone else seems to have keepsakes, I gave my horses leather headcollar away as I couldn't face using it again...
 
Mine go into the box with the other leads and collars, and when the time feels right my younger dogs wear the. As they are her children, it seems appropriate. My story is like that with Bosworth and Flodden; when I deem them grown up enough, usually after a major milestone- their first 1st at a champ show, their first rabbit, something!- they go into one.

No one wears her old show lead, the one that made her a champion. Maybe when my young stock become champions, IF they become champions, they might, but probably not.
 
I did wonder about burying it with him but my o/h buried him and brought it home.
I'm not cross with him for doing it, he thought it the right thing and what I'd have wanted. I was probably too upset to have made he right decision!
I only have his. Our family dog died after Id left home and myself and my own family have only lost one dog before who hated wearing a collar so just didn't- so I didn't have this query!
I'm definitely having it silver covered. I love the idea and it's something I'll keep forever and can be somewhere I can see it and be reminded of the little chap.

Sorry to all the rest of you who are in a similar situation or fear it approaching. Hugs to you. Such heartache.
 
All my dogs collars are in a draw, I never reuse them except the puppy outgrown ones which do get passed down to the next puppy that comes along. Not sure I would want a constant reminder on display to be honest.
 
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