Random thought I had from another post made me curious if what I’m doing is weird or normal.

I don’t have my dogs wear their collars inside. Before we go out, they sit while I put their collars on them, and when we come back in, I take them back off. Kind of like a “no shoes in the house” rule.

They’re both trained to not bolt out the door (and the “get your collars on” routine definitely helped with that) and the yard is fenced, so I’m not worried if one or both would slip out. They’re also both chipped and registered.

Why? I just feel like they’d be more comfortable without wearing them all the time. Plus, my older dog is basically Houdini when it comes to slipping hers off, so it has to be incredibly tight if I wanted to prevent her from slipping out of it.

  • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.caMEnglish
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    8 days ago

    We occasionally take it off at night for two reasons:

    1. Let the skin and fur of his neck breathe, prevents infections.
    2. He sleeps with us, and the clinking can get annoying

    And we generally leave it on him during the day at all times for the simple reason that it’s easy to accidentally forget it, go for a walk and end up with a ticket from the city, especially since it gets buried in his luscious fur.