![]() There is also a small plastic tag holder to which you can attach your dog’s tags. There is a regular heavy plastic buckle for regular use as well as the special breakaway buckle. It also comes in a nylon fabric in black, orange, red, blue and purple. I love the way the aqua, coral and yellow print pops against their black fur but will also look adorable on any color fur. I received the limited edition Bones/Paws pattern which has brightly colored bones on a black background on one side and paw prints on the other, so that when you size the collar to fit your dog, you can see both prints. ![]() The collar is excellent quality, made of a strong but silky polyester fabric. I could not wait to try this out on Jackson and Tinkerbell. ![]() The safety buckle is designed so that it will release, the collar will fall off, and the dog will be free of the hazard. Both the tags on the collar and the collar itself pose a risk that can turn deadly quickly, particularly as the dog begins to panic and try to pull or run away even more.ĭog owner Tenney Mudge invented the KeepSafe Break-Away Safety Collar after the tragic death of her beloved Samoyed/Australian Shepherd named Chinook, who she lost to a collar strangulation accident. In order to prevent similar tragedies, Tenney developed and patented the special safety buckle on the KeepSafe Break-Away Safety Collar that releases when pressure is applied. In addition to those, the PetSafe also lists the slats of your deck, fences, and shrubs and bushes as potential choking hazards. In my post Dog Collar Safety: When to Let Your Pet Go Naked, I mention a variety of collar hazards including playtime between two or more dogs, crates/kennels, the dishwasher, and heating/cooling vents. After that I began to remove both dogs’ collars at night, although I have not seen her sleeping on top of the vent since. Free from the metal grate, she jumped up into our bed and squirmed into my lap, her tail wagging furiously in fear and relief. Since I was sound asleep it took me a minute to figure out what was attached to her and I quickly released her collar. As a result, the entire metal vent cover came off of the vent when she stood up and was dangling awkwardly from her collar, the corner of the metal poking her in the neck slightly. She had a habit of sleeping on top of the air conditioning vent and her tag had gone down through the slats while she was laying down and twisted. Last summer we had a scary incident in the middle of the night when Tinkerbell woke me up by standing and whimpering next to my side of the bed. In my own blogs I have shared the personal stories of Jackson and Tinkerbell, both of whom have gotten their tags stuck in the wires of the dishwasher while sneaking a lick off the plates, and the story of when Tinkerbell’s tags became caught in the heating/cooling vent one night as she enjoyed her habit of snoozing on top of the air conditioning vent. There are 71 incidents a day and over 50% of pet professionals have experienced a collar related incident. Tinkerbell looks stunning in the pawprint KeepSafe Break-Away collaĪccording to the PetSafe website, over 19 million dogs wear collars every day, and more than 26,000 collar related injuries happen each year. I was thrilled when not one but two collars arrived last week. Of course I replied that I was happy to test out a collar, given my obsession with pet safety and my recent post about collar safety in particular. PetSafe is known for products including wireless and in-ground fences, automatic self-cleaning litter boxes for cats (something else I would happily test), digital feeders, electronic pet doors, and a variety of other products for cats and dogs. Collar Safety Awareness Week: The KeepSafe Break-Away CollarĮarlier this year, I shared with you the importance of ensuring that the information on your dog’s identification tags is up to date in case he or she is lost. Later in the summer I also shared some important information on pet collar safety, common dog collar and dog tag hazards, and my own approach to when my dogs should wear their collars and when they should not wear them, in the post Dog Collar Safety: When to Let Your Dog Go Naked.Ī few weeks ago I was thrilled when PetSafe contacted me and told me about their upcoming Collar Safety Awareness Week and asked if they could send me one of the KeepSafe Break-Away Collars for me to test.
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