One of the puppy-raising books we read had a chapter on collar safety. Its tagline was basically "DANGER! COLLARS CAN HARM OR KILL YOUR DOG, YOU SHOULD TOTALLY BE FREAKING OUT ABOUT THIS!" They included horror stories of a dog choking when his collars snagged on a crate door, or another dog whose tags got caught in a floor air-vent of all things. So we got all scared like we were supposed to and began following the book's guideline about tightening Forest's collar so that only one or two fingers could squeeze between the collar and his throat.
Apparently the doggy day-care folks are not a fan of our collar policy. Whenever we pick up Forest, his collar is always looser than when we dropped him off. Like fit-your-arm-thru-there loose. I think this passive aggressive behavior is their way of hinting that Forest's collar is too tight. We've come to trust the humans taking care of Forest every day more than the random books we've read, so we decided to stop tightening his collar so much. But this has created a certain problem…
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Forest can now reach his tags so he's been chewing on them. At this point you can barely read the rabies info or the phone number on the back of his name tag.
These busted tags are technically the second set he's gone thru. We lost the first rabies and name tags a few months ago during one of our walks. The puppy got really excited about something and pulled as hard as he could on his leash to escape. The ring connecting the tags to his collar broke and the tags got lost in someone's lawn. Now this second set is quickly approaching retirement as well. Dang dog.
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