I finally found the buckle for that collar, and it was partially in the mouth of the dog who was twisted, impossibly tight – too tight to be able to tighten it more in order to get the tang of the buckle undone.Īs I was working to find the buckles, one of the other women ran into the house and got scissors. One dog was wearing a quick-release collar – but it wasn’t the collar that was tight. I dug my hands into the dogs’ fur, looking for buckles to unbuckle. ![]() I and the dogs’ owners, both young women, tried frantically to figure out how to untwist the dogs, but they were big, strong dogs in a full panic, and we couldn’t do it. Two dogs had been playing when one grabbed the other by his collar and then rolled over the collar twisted, pressing his tongue into his own lower teeth – and tightening to the point of choking his playmate. But I ran to help when I heard the sound of dogs and women screaming, and was confronted with a writhing tangle of gasping, screaming, urinating, panicking canines. The dog who nearly choked to death in my hands was not my dog – he belonged to a neighbor. ![]() And you will have to believe me when I say I know, from personal experience, that when a dog starts choking to death, he won’t be holding cooperatively still in perfect understanding that you need to make his discomfort worse for a moment in order to save his life. The answer is: Because in a terrible emergency, when a dog’s collar is caught on something and he’s choking to death, the only way to unbuckle that buckle – to get that metal prong or tang out of its hole – is to pull it a little bit tighter. ![]() Why have I taken a stand against such a ubiquitous piece of dog equipment? The first danger I won’t expose my dogs to is a collar with a regular metal buckle – you know! The kind that has a frame and a tang or prong that fits through a hole on the collar and is secured by the back of the buckle frame.
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