My dogs always wear their collars in and outdoors. They never show any signs of being uncomfortable as that is what they are used to. I was just wondering what others do about collars, do you remove them when they are indoors?
jane

I always leave freds collar on regardless of inside or out. My theory is that if it fits correctly a dog doesn't take any notice of it, and if (god forbid) the dog escaped from the house, etc, then its easier for someone to get the dog, quickly look at the tag on the collar and bring the dog home. Just my opinion.

i never have collars on my dogs in or out the house,

if it a show dog it will leave a mark were the collar is resting on the neck and may rub the coat away a  bit,
plus after one of mine neverly hanged himself in the back of the car on the dog guard which is stand fitting in a volo car bye the collar.
plus i have heard over years were two dog are playing and one of the collar as twisted bye rough play.
plus if a puppy or dog is crated at time while you are not there that could be another issue,

if owners are going to have collar we stated bye the quick release one not the old buckal one incase of you need to get it off quick

so mine dont have collars

All  my dogs wear collars 24/7 included my Cavaliers who are now retired from the showring,but who wore them whilst I was showing them. My dogs have Keepsafe breakaway collars(as do the cats)with the requisite discs. These collars come undone if they get caught on anything.

Thanks to the DDA your car is now a public place & dogs have to have a collar & address disc on them in cars.

I take their collars off in the house..just because it wears the ruff down and marks the neck and I think it is safer not to have one on. If I stay somewhere else and when we go out they always have a collar and tag..and if I am saying somewhere else I make up a tag with say the holiday cottage address I'm staying at and the local contact no.

Never collars in the house for dogs that are kept together. If I have a large dog in the living room area (which is only when somebody is in season, unwell, has pups, anything like that), i.e. so that it will come to the door if somebody arrives that one will have a collar on so there is something to grab, but not a other times. I had two young dogs play a few years ago, one's mouth got stuck in the other's collar, his mouth was bleeding and the other was getting strangled and I nearly lost both, it was horrific. Have heard too many stories of dogs that have died this way. Had I not been at home AND had help, at leats one would have died. I like the idea of the collars Moonmaiden mentions but have found that one of my dogs will remove any collar another wears and chew it up!

And like Tenaj said, for show dogs it really spoils the coat as it leaves a mark, so another reason for why I don't use them indoors.

Our dogs also wear their collars 24/7 so they always have ID on them. Having lost one dog overnight due to bolting from a firework that went off just as the front door was opened I ensure that they always have their ID on them. Both dogs are microchipped but one's chip has  moved and is not so easy to locate without thorough scanning. As well as normal ID details I also have the words Scan Me on their tags and each dog wears 2 identical tags as Harley has lost 3 in the past year and am hoping that the chance of losing 2 tags at the same time are minimised :)

I used to leave them on but heard a couple of horror stories and always take them off now.

I used to leave them on but when I got my girl she kept chewing them up, and I used to come home and find a collar in the dog bed! I realised it would be far too easy for her to strangle herself or one of the boys doing that (and it was getting expensive to replace the collars every week!) so now they only wear them when they go out. They are all microchipped though.

My dogs normally have their collars on, however, if we are going out and there is no-one in with the dogs we remove the collars. Also, if they should be playing very boisterously we will often pull the collars off the ones playing at that time just to prevent any accidents. Always remember coming back to the car one day and my black Labrador had her dew claw caught in her collar and also remember hearing of a Golden Retriever playing in the garden with the Bernese she lived with. The collar of the Retriever got caught on the jaw of the Bernese then twisted. Before the owner could get them apart the Golden had choked to death. So we are ultra cautious in our house.

What a dreadful thing to happen:(
We always keep ours off unless going for a walk.
Didn't realise that about cars, we take ours off in the car too.

we leave ours on but they sometimes take them off... we use loose, thick check chains and keeper doesn;t particularly like wearing hers in the house apparently so shoogles it off. the other two don't care (i think they look a bit funny 'naked' though)

Mine always wear collars with ID when out of the house but only wear their birthday suits indoors. :-D

My dog always wears his collar with ID tag in the house except when he goes up to the bedroom for his nap at lunch time :-D and when he goes up to bed at night. Our front door is opened too many times during the day to risk him not wearing one and I do use it hold him behind me when answering the door. He generally goes everywhere with me or there's someone else at home, but I think I'd have a collar on him even if nobody was in as I've heard a lot of cases where the house has been broken into and the dog(s) have bolted. Same goes for the car - a lot of the cases on dog lost I've read have been dogs involved in car accidents who have panicked and fled the scene.

I know some people use the rolled leather ones to stop the coat being marked/flattened.

On at all times except when in the house - I have known a dog to get strangled as others have already mentioned.  They have them on in the car too. :-)

The three older dogs always have them on. However, they have rolled leather collars indoors and wider collars outdoors to prevent any damage to the fur.

Jesse doesn't wear a collar indoors as he is still crated when we go out and I don't want to take the chance of forgetting to remove the collar and then an accident happens. Also Flash will pull Jesse around by his collar if he wears one...

Vera

Always on here, except when having a bath.  I live feet away from a busy road on a Bus route.

I've heard a lot of cases where the house has been broken into and the dog(s) have bolted.

A least no risk of that here -touch the front door or indeed any door or window and 12 dogs inside will go nuts, I'd like to see a burglar trying that on! :D

> And like Tenaj said, for show dogs it really spoils the coat as it leaves a mark, so another reason for why I don't use them indoors.

I find minimal coat damage when using rolled or round collars.  You have to do risk assessment and I feel with my house layout and the proximity of the road that having something I can always grab is paramount. 

Also the dogs are not often left and when they are they will tend to sleep.  Having deep ruffs they rarely ever when playing grab at collars, and the rare occasion tehy ahve (when wearer very out of coat) they being half check collars get pulled off right over theri heads, but this is behaviour I discourage when they play.  It is msot likely to occur when I am out and I haven't lost a collar yet.

I don't crate at home, and anywhere else I am there to supervise, so never without a collar.

>A least no risk of that here -touch the front door or indeed any door or window and 12 dogs inside will go nuts

:-D

I'd like to think that would be the case with my Dobe. Our last boy slept through as burglars used a crow bar to prize a back window open (they actually ended up taking a huge chunk of the frame off as well whilst he happily dozed!). He was old though bless him. Fortunately we came home from shopping and disturbed them before they could make off with anything. I hope he would have heard them if they had gone any further than the kitchen as he was only in the next room! With 12 though you could probably park one at each entry point :-D

Off and on while puppy gets used to it but then it will be on all the time.  Does anyone use those waterproof collars?  They claim to be non-itchy and odour free.  Last Lab's neck and woven nylon collar, used to get downright rancid smelling sometimes, usually worse in summer.

And, what about dog tag safety?  Just heard of a dog left outside while owners shopped, her tags fell through the cracks while she dozed on the deck, the tags twisted so she could not get up and she was stuck for a few hours in the hot sun.  She was OK after receiving liquids and being cooled down but if they'd stayed away longer .....  Being left outside alone is not the point here.  Just wondering if it is a really unusual freak thing for tags to get caught that way.

Mine always used to have their collars on all the time, then when Gem was a pup she was wrestling with her Mum and started to make a horrible sqealing/coughing sound. The circular pins that hold the name tags to the two girls collars had somehow managed to get intertwined and she was choking. It was awful, she wet herself and almost passed out before I could get her mums collar off, all the dogs (and I) were really upset. I dread to think what the outcome would have been had I not been in :-(  So now they only get their collars on when were going out. In the house and garden they don't wear anything round their necks. It's a personal choice as some people would rather they were wearing collars in case they got out the garden. I think for me and my dogs that's a very slim possibility whereas we've had a choking incident.

When I go on holiday I do want them to wear i.d. at all times so have got them the flat collars embroidered with my mobile number so there are no tags to get caught.

I use the collar as a signal that we are going out! Same sort of thing that when I put my coat on she getsto put her collar on...Never even thought of leaving her collar on indoors!
Just got back from the park with a muddy dog complete with very muddy collar...hence both need washing!!!! (At least I hope it's mud!)