[pyrnet] Collars

[WOOF1@att.net]

Hi Folks!

I'm wondering whether most of you leave collars on your 
dogs all the time.  I know that opinion varies on 
the "safety" of this... on the golden list, some swear 
the risks of caught jaws while playing and such are too 
great, but this has never been a problem for us... I 
feel too strongly that the risk of their becoming lost 
is greater, so I want that ID on them.  But with 
Gulliver, I just don't know.  He has a rolled leather 
collar, but I noticed that it has left a ring of shorter 
coat around his neck.  He looks like he has a beard on 
his upper neck, then the bib below.  So I don't have the 
collar on him now.  He is microchipped.  What do you 
think, and what types of collars do you use, and when do 
the dogs wear them?  My goldens wear their collars 24/7, 
as do two of the cockers.  Porsche (12 y.o. cocker) had 
a tumor on her neck, so didn't wear a collar for a long 
time, and is now recovering from surgery to remove that 
lump, but she'll have hers back on in a week or two. 

Lori Whitwam 

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