Sunbear Squad Tip Of The Week
This week our tip from Sunbear Squad came along with a very important message:
“This week’s tip seems unbelievable, but it is a real problem. At our county shelter just a few weeks ago, we took in a stray with a too-tight homemade nylon rope collar embedded in a poor dog’s neck. Under the rope we found raw muscle and skin, all around the neck.
In some neglectful homes, once the dog is collared and chained to their permanent spot, they never get attention again. They get enough food and water for sustenance, and that’s it. The puppy grows into an adult. No one notices that the collar is too tight.
I’m always glad when neglected animals come into our shelter. They will get good homes finally.”
WEEKLY WATCH TIP for Nov. 9
Watch for collars, chains, dog houses, and kennels that are too short or small for growing puppies.
Be A Good Samaritan For Animals
Even in loving homes this could happen. When someone adopts a dog from a shelter the dog is usually very skinny. Once the dog starts getting to a normal weight it’s easy to forget that the collar needs to be adjusted, something to be mindful of.
Thanks for to our friends at Sunbear Squad for this great, and potentially life saving, tip of the week.
You see this on the animal police shows all the time. It seems so hard to believe that people can just forget this simplest and seemingly obvious facts that puppies grow and need a bigger collar. They need a collar that you can fit about two fingers in for comfort. The flip side of this is that adjustable collars loosen themselves up after a while and if you walk your dog with just it’s regular collar and leash you should make sure it isn’t too loose because if they pull it can come off and they can run off.
If this is occuring in “loving homes” then the people must be stupid. The first thing shelters/breeders tell you is to watch the collar. And for those just tying them up and leaving them: you make me sick.