Collars

Guardian

Guardian

The Cosmic Force
Collars are another animal issue for me, and I'm wondering what others think of them? On one hand, they denote "ownership" in a way that I do not like. Marking an animal as "mine" makes me uncomfortable....but on the other hand, I know that putting collars on both my dog and cat could save their lives. The cat never leaves the house, and the dog seldom leaves my sight, and does not need a leash....but they both have collars with tags that read "REWARD IF FOUND; VET FEES PAID" and the phone number I've had for 30+ years.

I do not like collaring them like little slaves...but I know anything can happen, and if they are separated from me somehow, I want to increase their odds of survival and making it back home. Good people will help a lost animal finds his/her way home without "REWARD" written on the tag...but evil people won't "waste their time" However, even an evil person will call you and/or take your companion to the vet if they know they are gonna get paid.

So I collar and tag them like "property" and live with it :cry:
 
samy said:
Don't bother yourself with this, I'm pretty sure your dog and cat don't feel like slaves :cool2:
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Moreover, if the get lost, they will be very happy to have a collar with the phone number and come back home. ;D
 
Here is a human test of a dog collar.
I will never be a party to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXTQW94Gig
 
Omg, just turn off the sound and look at the guy... :shock:

I have no particular problem with regular collars, but omg shock collars...
 
Al Today said:
Here is a human test of a dog collar.
I will never be a party to this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAXTQW94Gig
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Oh that's just SICK ...I can't understand putting a shock collar on a dog! They bark to tell you something when you're not paying attention :cry:

Did you listen to the people in the background LAUGHING while their friend is hurting himself???
 
... Did you listen to the people in the background LAUGHING while their friend is hurting himself??? ...
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This is just a small, slight example on how life here on ths BBM has been twisted upside down.

[edit] TWISTED: Methinks that's a subject unto itself... Give me a break, a Twister Sister song just came on the radio... :umm: :umm: :umm:
 
Our doggums only wear them if they go out. They have 11 acres to play in and, except for visits to the vet, they never go out so they pretty much don't wear collars.
 
I think it would really depend on the situation and animal. As Laura says, if they don't go out and they are always with you or around the house, I don't see the reason why they need to wear a collar inside the house.

Fwiw, I went through the same thought process as you about 8 years ago and decided to take off my kitties collar as it made no sense to me why she would have it. She's a house cat and never goes outside and she hated the gosh-darned thing, so I took it off her and she was very happy when I did.

But if I had dogs, you can be sure that I'd have collars for them. Because you never know with dogs- especially when you take them out. What if they see something, and just boot it? Woosh they are gone with no way to get back home. So a collar for them would be very useful when they go out- and like Laura's dogs, they don't necessarily have to wear them around the house.

Just my thoughts, fwiw. :)
 
Laura said:
Our doggums only wear them if they go out. They have 11 acres to play in and, except for visits to the vet, they never go out so they pretty much don't wear collars.
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Because our house sits near a river, we did fence off about a half acre of it to give doggie roaming room away from the water. It goes up in the woods above the house, and gives him some great vantage points. It's his job to walk the area and bark at strangers. :) He takes that seriously, and even has what we call "bark-o-clock" twice a day. He never wears a collar unless someone is coming over that he hasn't met, or we're going to take him out on a walk or a visit to Pet smart. He's a good dog, but he doesn't go anywhere outside of home without the collar and leash. Hubby and I look at it as being 'dressed' properly to go to town. ;)

Our cat is a different matter. She never goes outside, and with the skin problems she's had in her life, I could never put a collar on her. It would be something else for her to be allergic to, poor thing. (We've just switched her to an organic kind of wet petfood, and its really doing her skin good.)

Cats are so hard on wildlife, Hubby and I decided long ago never to let ours outside.
 
My brother's both have collars for they're doggies but only for when they go out. When inside they never wear them because its just uncomfortable for the animals we think.

The shock collar thing is just horrible imo. Especially one that just prevents the dog from barking. And the shock they give? Extremely excessive! Some years ago a friend of mine had a shock collar for an electric fence to keep the dog from running off. I had thought to myself that this was a great idea to keep the dog from taking off and you wouldn't have to keep the dog tied down all the time when he/she was outside. As soon as the dog approached the perimeter, a slight jolt would initiate to let them know not to continue. Until one day when a neighbor's cat went strolling by. The dog went running full charge after the cat, got shocked by the collar, tumbled out into the street and then couldn't come back in because he/she was afraid of getting shocked again. :cry:

I couldn't understand why this happened so I decided to test the collar myself. I held it in my hand and approached the perimeter. When I got close, the shock this thing hit me with was unbelievable! :scared: It sent a shock up my arm that made me immediately drop the collar and jump for my life! Not only was I was more than twice the weight of that poor animal but they attach it to the neck as well!

Thats when I learned that absolutely no kind of shock treatment was worth it to train an animal. Love and caring is all any animal really needs. :flowers:
 
We have two dogs and they actually seem to like their collars. When I take them off to give them a bath they always seem anxious to get them back on afterwords. Go figure.
 
I found out the hard way what happens when you let a dog run around w/out a collar (or at least ID). They take off for two weeks and have themselves a little adventure. :P

However, I still leave her collar off while she's inside, or if she's running outside and I'm around to watch where she goes. After the collar's been on she really appreciates a robust scratch around the neck and shoulders. :)
 
Thanks for all the input ...I'm thinking I should take the kitty's collar off....mainly because she is wearing it to assuage my fears. Years ago, one of my kitties (who has since passed) slipped out of the house (never figured out how) with no collar on. We eventually found her, wayyyyyy under the house ...but I was frantic for days..posting flyers and such.

The dog travels with me a great deal, often daily. She LUVS car rides, so the risk of separation is greater...say I had a wreak or something. However, the cat never even looks at the door, and even if she did make a run for it, we are in a MUCH more remote location now, way far from the road.
 
Our doggums only wear them if they go out. They have 11 acres to play in and, except for visits to the vet, they never go out so they pretty much don't wear collars.
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Pretty much same here :)

Me and my wife , we do not put any collars on doggies unless going to vet , which is located in town and according to law we have to put collars :/

And about those chock collars .... hmmm thats sick , I remember a short movie that i saw with thost Jackass kind of guys , they tried shock collars on themselves and that was too much for them ... even for crazy guys like them ... that was too much ...
 
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