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I wouldn't put a collar on my dog. The only time they need one is during walks, and some of them don't even need one at all. If you train him not run after cars and all the normal dog stuff, you should be fine.

My dogs only have a collar on to go outside , when we go to training, or for walks. Never have a collar on in the house, or in the crates. First reason being so they do not get caught on anything. Second, so that they do not have a collar mark on their fur. And thirdly, if I need to get a hold of them, they have more than enough fur and skin at the scruff for me to grab, not that i do that often, but it is an option. I never ever wear a collar on them unless we are going someplace,doing something.

my dogs always wear collars even when they are just in the garden, you never know when they may escape. with regards to getting caught in things they wear quick release collars with plastic clips on them so if they do get caught they can break the collars and get away. my dogs are working dogs who love nothing more than tearing through bushes, i have one 11 yrs, one 7 yrs and the other 6 yrs, in that time the 11 yr old has gotten caught once as a young dog and her collar snapped as it should and she was fine. the others have never gotten caught. they have tags on their collars but they just say that they have a microchip and that's it

I have a dog, and yes he does wear a collar, a brown one to be exact. But it really should have a tag on it. My dog is 2 years old, and now he wears em all the time, and even on walks.

In the UK its the law that they are wearing a collar and tag when they are out (unfortunately Microchips are optional). Its one of the dog laws here that makes sense.

We have two very active high prey drive Pointers and they have never got their collars caught on anything. Their collars get taken off at night and put back on in the morning

I knew 2 dogs who have hanged themselves on their collars. For that reason mine never wear them except when out. They have quick release collars in case they get caught up in the undergrowth - expensive but better to lose a collar than a dog!

I take my dogs collars off before they go to bed but put them back on when I get up in the morning - my garden fence has a hole in it and if they ever did decided to squeeze through, they would be out and running. (Is not my side of garden fence, so I cannot fix it unfortuantly, and my neighbour has been informed but he just refuses to fix it!)

I take millions of calls everyday who have lost their dog that isnt wearing a collar and that they never thought would slip out the door when they weren't looking. And we have too many dogs turning up here without collars on so we can never trace the owners. Only once I know that the door is not going to be opened again that evening do I take them off.

A collar that is on properly should not catch on anything - unless you have it on too loose.

My dogs wear collars everywhere. The collars have their identification tags, their microchip tags, and their rabies tags. It only takes seconds for a dog to dart out the door, and if they are found people may think they are a stray if they don't have a collar, plus tags are the quickest way to get your pet back.

If you don't have collars on all the time (or even if you do), you should definitely have a microchip and other forms of identification on your pet.

I only have collars on my dogs whilst walking. My Rott caught his collar as a pup on a piece of metal sticking out of a wall, I was on hand at the time but since then ,no collar.

We keep collars on all of our pets [except the cats].

If by some small chance they slip out of our fenced in yard, we want people who don't know of them [which there are few people around here that don't know our pets] to know that they have a home to return to.

We don't want someone to see there's no collar and believe that that's a reason *not* to look for an owner.

it was actually a dilemma for me. A LOT of people in my area would consider an dog without a collar clearly unowned in my area (regardless of microchip or tattoo) and well there is a slight risk of a unplanned escape. HOWEVER, I am well aware of the snagging risk. Fortunately my dogs are small enough I could compromise with "breakaway" cat collars (clearly I use another for walks)

I even saw adds for ones sized for big dogs (chinook & premier both make them)