I like to leave the collars off of my dogs, different reason for each dog.

Penny: she's getting a kink in her fur from the collar and it turns the white part of her neck gray, which is gross to me.

Milo: has always had a slightly bald neck, trying to get that fur to grow back and it seems to be working!

Peyton: her neck was starting to bald as well. Plus, who doesn't love a naked puppy? :biggrin:

 

Aspen is always nakie when he's at home. :wink:

BTW, a long time ago I started noticing a little grey around his neck. *YUCK*

 

Ania is nekkid at home too! The collar messes up her fur! Plus, she knows that when the collar comes out, she's goin' out!

Richelle

 

My dogs are all naked at home because if I leave them on my boy dog Leo tries to choke all the girls!

 

Mine are all little nudists. Champ is too handsome to have a kink in his neck fur! same with Grissom. Annie never ever got used to hers and walks funky with one on if I don't take it off after our walk, and Chesney is just a nakie little puppy! Having multiple dogs, I don't like them playing, especially unattended, with collars on. I've seen too many daycare dogs get their mouths stuck, one even broke his jaw. Mine are all microchipped (AND properly registered with Avid or Home Again) so I just don't feel the need to keep ID tags on them. If they were found, they're obviously someone's pet and any vet or shelter can scan for a chip.

 

Jack always wears one because he is prone to wandering (and deaf).
Flip wears his on and off.

P.J. always has his on too, with a bell, because we want to know what he's doing at all times. His collar is a breakaway though, of course.

 

Mine always wear theirs, but just because if I take them off, they get upset and whine until I put them back on. They come off for baths, or to wash them once and while, but other than that, they always want to have them on lol

 

Our dogs do the same thing!

My dog always has her collar on. I'm not too worried about her getting caught since she seriously just sleeps when I'm gone. She also doesn't play with other dogs.

 

This is kind of funny. Shadey is my son's new rescue Boxer mix. He was 3 1/2 years old when they got him. They got him a beautiful new collar at a fancy boutique pet store and it has all his tags on it. The dog LOVES his collar so much, that if you take it off of him, he gets upset and will keep pushing his head at you until you snap his collar back on him! He was a yard dog with no belongings before they got him and he is so thrilled to be a house dog with actual possessions now that you can't even take his collar off of him! It reminds me of Lady and the Tramp when Tramp finally gets his own collar.

Rocky and Chelsy don't wear collars in the house. It mats down their hair and I can't stand the sound of tags jingling all the time. When Shade moves in with me in a month I am going to have to get used to the sound since there is no way I am getting his collar off of him!

 

I try to keep the collars and harnesses off of Amaya and Ryou when they're at home. They like to chew on them (Amaya's been through THREE!), and I can't count how many times Amaya has gotten her mouth stuck in them! I only leave them on when I get home for a walk and know I'm going out with them later, or if I forget to take them off of the dogs. Bad, bad mama! haha. They don't like their collars and harnesses, obviously.

 

My dogs keep there's on! They seem to charge to the door if I get a delivery or someone is at the door and I like having the collars on in case they bolt which they haven't yet I am a bit paranoid even though they are micro chipped. My one dog when she was a puppy around 5 or so months old got loose and ran down a busy street and a wonderful woman picked her up put her in the front of her car and drove around with her as we frantically looked for her. It was dark and she's dark colored so scary! But anyway the woman looked at her collar to find out where she lived . She saw my one daughter looking around and the woman asked her if she was looking for a dog who my daughter did see in the front seat! She was a very nice lady and we got her back. Had it not been for that tag on the collar I don't know what she would have done with her! Would have hated the thought of her in a strange shelter or police station whereever she would be ! But anyway that was a long time ago and I just feel safe with the collar on like I said even if they are micro chipped! Who knew shed get out the door it happens! I have heard other stories like this and some not so pleasantly UGH!~ I am so glad I never went through this lately!

 

I leave it on, except for bath days when he's still wet.

 

Mine are naked in the house. They do not run out the door, so that's some security and they are also chipped.
The collars kink their fur and just seem uncomfortable. They aren't used to wearing them for long periods so they'll scratch at their necks if I leave them on.

 

A few months ago we had to take Zio to the vet because his neck was looking bad in some areas. Turns out that because of the skin folds there, the collar was rubbing the fur off. Esp after he was wet. So now we don't have a collar on him around the house. However, he ALWAYS has a collar (with ID on it) whenever he's in the yard or out of the house training, for walks, etc.

 

Koda's collar is pretty much on 24/7. The reason goes back to our first Golden, Bailey. He never wore his collar in the house and one day, we were having work done on the house and the contractor left the door open, and out wandered Bailey. Luckily, we found him but ever since then, I'm too paranoid to not have a collar on any of my dogs.

He is microchipped but that's not a guarantee that the person that finds him, will take him somewhere that can read the chip. I just feel better knowing he's wearing his tags.

- Jean

 

Never at home.

 

I live in the country and take the dogs collars off for their safety. I worry about them getting caught on the cattle fencing.

 

Always on, because of the ID tag. With our luck, the one time we took it off she'd get loose and fail to find her way back home.

 

My dogs are collar-free in the house.

 

Naked Naked Naked!! More importantly Jingle Free!!

 

Titus HAS to have a collar on because he will run/walk away and he doesn't listen when I call him back. He comes back eventually, but because of his temperment and the fact that he would like to see if he can catch one of those cows in the back.. that are not mine... I can't even leave him off leash.
Owen keeps his on only cause I never take it off, except for bath time. Owen doesn't go on leash unless we are going for an actual walk, or we are going out to public areas... and thats just for safty in case someone elses dog wants to run up to us agressivly I can say, 'but MY dog was leashed, so you are at fault not me'. I have had people do that to me before. Their dog runs up to us and they yell at me because they don't know how my "Pitt" will react... Wanna know how I will react if you call my EBT a "pitt" again?? :biggrin: It won't be Owen you will have to worry about! :wink:
My collars are also break-away collars. But because of the shape and size of their heads, they have to have the martingale collars that tighten up, or the collar will prove pointless anyway I go.

 

The only one of our dogs that wears a collar all the time is Shiloh. Since she is an escape artist she needs to have it on in case she gets out. The rest of our girls are nudists at home!

 

My Frodo only wears his when we leave the house or when the backyard gate is unlocked otherwise he is naked. When we say, lets take your clothes off, he knows that means we're gonna take collar off.

 

No collar

The only Time the collar goes on is for a walk, the vet, and vacation. We hear their nails on our laminate floors as it is, don't want to hear a jingle too.

 

Jackson wears his almost 24/7. We live on 3 acres, unfenced, with LOTS of doors and I also live with a 3 year old child. If a door got open, and he got out when I wasn't home or something, I'd be extremely paranoid that he was going to get out and go wandering around and if he were found w/o a collar... I dunno, I just prefer to keep his ID on. He's also microchipped.

 

My wife tells me the dog looks hot and uncomfortable with one on. so its usually off

 

Mine are collarless @ home but NOT tagless; I put tag necklaces on them which have a break point if they get caught up in something. But outdoors they wear collars for safety, handling and the "just in case" factor... because let's face it.. sighthounds sometimes have their own ideas