That is one of the 1st things the gal who runs the obed. school we go to always tells new students as part of their 1st class - to never put a dog in a kennel with a collar on.
That happened to my dog last year...the collar thing...in the back yard...stick caught in his collar and he choked.... I had never heard of any stories about collars until AFTER that happned!! So my dogs don't ever wear collars unless they are going for a walk. I know that is extreme but I just feel better about it.
That is so sad!! My dogs never wear their collars unless they're on a walk with me or in the car. Sometimes I leave them on after we get home from a walk or ride, but they're definitely not always on them.
Labradors chew off any kind of collar. I use choke chains to hang the dog tags. Two of my #100 field Labs were playing one night, I heard a wrong noise, and investigating, found an apparent dog fight, one dog at the other's throat. I came out shouting, in my nighty, I found that one dog, in imminent danger of having her jaw broken (can you imagine a dog w/a broken jaw?) was attached tightly to the other dog's choke collar-which was in turn, was in imminent danger of being choked to death. A little buzzed on my night cap, I attempted to subdue two #100 lb. dogs that were both biting and scratching me. Paniced enough to pummel and wrestle them into submission, it took 1/2 an hour to get them apart, while dinner simultaneously burned on both the stove and BBQ. Hearing the shouting and yelping, my neighbor came to the fence. I was bloody, exhausted, and gripping the two dogs for our lives. She asked if she could help. Knowing that we had woke her up, I burst into tears, and told her we were fine. I got them apart soon after. When the one dog had laid down, the other had crossed over her, holding the collar-hence the tangle. God protected us that night, I hope he will do you the same. Give collars some thought.
