Poor little mite

Terrible story,happened to Kizzy when she was playing with her brother once while at my dads.Lucky I was able to free her and no damage was done,it was a horrid lesson I learned.Now they don't wear collars in the house.

How awful for that poor owner. I only put Loki's collar on going for a walk. May the dog RIP.

looks really good and it has a quick release catch, but they can still kill,
I would say it would be alot better than most collars, providing you see that the dogs are caught,

Mabey for reasons of ID if your dog is prone to wander little collars {ones I used for pups} which open if a certain amount of pressure is applied could be a good idea


Then a stronger collar for taking them out for walks,
I tend to not have collars on my lot most of the time but if they got out I would be breaking the law,

Still I would rather do that as have one strangled again, I had been lucky the last time but wouldnt want to take the chance again,

That is so sad but not the first time I've heard of this happening either.

We always take Suki's collar off in the house and even when she's in the garden (she's always supervised).

Terrible story, although I have to admit I wouldn't have thought it wise to leave a dog in a 'choke collar' all the time. Our wear the collars with the quick release catches. I tend to leave them on my old guys if I'm honest, but take it off the pup in the house, unless i know we will be in and out or have visitors.

What a sad sad story. As one or two have said I also didn't know it was so common an accident. We adopted the policy of 'no collars at home' about a year back and am glad we did, certainly won't put them on at home now.

wow that is a terribly sad story. i didn't know this was common either =(

It would be nice to see collars come with a warning to owners on them, I think people who only own one dog never really think about it, but I did notice a post where one dog got caught on something in the kitchen so not only other dogs are a problem, I am still gob smacked at the sheer amount of people who have had problems or know of others who have,

This story is tragic. I don't kniw how I would ever get over something like that.
I read about a young dog getting it's collar caught on it's crate while unsupervised at home. when the owners came back in, they found the poor wee soul had been literally hung.
One of my clients, I'm a groomer, called to cancell her appointment with me, a while back. Her little yorkie was upstairsand had got his hind leg caught in his very slack collar, had then tried to come downstairs, tripped and fell, breaking his neck. The owner was distraught.
It has been years since any of my dogs have worn collars at home, and after hearing stories like these, I can't see any reason to change now.
I do hope that the dally's owner can find some comfort in knowing that her dog was very much loved.
Clipper & the furry gang.