[NAGDU] collar question

Sun May 15 18:53:19 UTC 2016

I do have collar bells of varying loudness.  If anyone is interested email 
me, julielj at neb.rr.com and I'll get you all the info.

Julie
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From: Tami Jarvis via NAGDU
Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2016 12:31 PM
To: NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users
Cc: Tami Jarvis
Subject: Re: [NAGDU] collar question

Caitlyn,

That's funny. I like the tag noise for echolocation and to know where my
dog is. I also like bells, though I need to get some more soft sounding
ones. They're forever falling off, and I only notice when I feel lilke
I'm falling down a cliff because I can't hear the ground in front of my
dog. /lol/ I got some tracking bells to try them out awhile ago, and
they stay on the collar and don't break, so that's great for out of
doors. I need some reasonable bells for Loki, though, for when he's
working. I also like tags and bells on other dogs when they're around,
so I know they're there. I just like knowing there are dogs around, I
guess, so if they jingle, I am happy. /shrug/

When Zay, my husband's mutt was young, I used a martingale prong collar
to slow her down and to keep my arms attached. I tried using it without
removing her nylon martingale, but that didn't work, because she doesn't
have a neck. I'm used to poodles with long, long necks like dobies have,
so it took me awhile to figure out the problem. /lol/ She outgrew the
martingale and is wearing a plain old flat collar now, but she does well
at remembering loose leash, so it works. Her nose lengthened out just
enough I can pop a GL on her if we're going on long walks, but it's now
more of a just-in-case.

I was going to get Loki a Ruffwear collar with a special attachment for
licenses and bells. While I was waiting for him to grow into the next
size, a friend gave me a collar she'd never used, so that's what he's
got. It's desert camo, and it looks good with his black harness. I had
planned on blue for him, but camo and black is what we have. If he ever
gets past his leash chomping stage (ha!), I'll be doing another Ruffwear
buy and probably get him the Crag collar for daily wear and out of
doors. Or not. We'll see. He just chomped another leash, but maybe that
was a last blast, for old time's sake, and I can get one that isn't all
stitched together and inches shorter than it's supposed to be. I want a
nice leather collar and leash to match when I get his leather guide
harness, but, well... I guess the leash will be very nice and classy
until the first chance he has to get his teeth on it.

Tami

On 05/15/2016 04:10 AM, Caitlyn Furness via NAGDU wrote:
> Just another vote for the double collar method here.. Maggie wears a 
> leather martingale with her tags on it around the house and to go outside 
> for potty breaks.  For work, she wears a prong collar, which doesn’t 
> interfere with the martingale at all.  I also have a tag silencer on her 
> tags so they don’t make noise.  Tag noise drives me crazy!
>
> Cait
>
>> On May 14, 2016, at 1:07 PM, Jody Ianuzzi via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I do the same thing. Walker's tags are on a nylon collar with his name on 
>> it. His training collar is on his leash which I slip over his head when 
>> we go for a walk.  That way he has his tags on him all the time.  And I 
>> don't have to worry about the training collar getting caught on anything
>>
>> JODY 🐺
>> thunderwalker321 at gmail.com
>>
>> "There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes." 
>> DOCTOR WHO (Tom Baker)
>>
>>
>>
>>> On May 14, 2016, at 12:03 PM, Sonja O via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Would you consider a light and thin tag collar?
>>> My boy chief has a nice leather one and it carries his tag. The leash 
>>> and collar I'm using are separate.
>>> The benefit is that whenever I take the collar off, the tag collar just 
>>> stays on.
>>>
>>> Ella's Lead (Facebook and webpage) has really cute ones and you can pick 
>>> the width.
>>>
>>> The one I have is from Paco Collars and less than half and inch.
>>> I love it :)
>>>
>>> Hope that helps, sonja and chief
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On May 14, 2016, at 8:20 AM, Emily K. Michael via NAGDU 
>>>> <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Good morning, guide dog users!
>>>>
>>>> I have a question about tags and collars. My pup wears a training 
>>>> collar (choke chain) and his ID tag and rabies tag are on a keyring 
>>>> attached to the dead ring of the collar. However, it seems that every 
>>>> so often, the keyring starts to separate and then it gets caught up in 
>>>> the training collar’s links, which speeds up the pulling apart of the 
>>>> keyring. Is there a better way to attach the ID tags to a training 
>>>> collar? A more durable keyring perhaps? Or is this just one of the 
>>>> drawbacks of the keyring mechanism?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Emily, with York
>>>> —
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>>>> emily.k.michael at gmail.com
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>>>>
>>>> "What poetry is made of is so old, so familiar, that it’s easy to 
>>>> forget that it’s not just the words, but polyrhythmic sounds, speech in 
>>>> its first endeavors (every poem breaks a silence that had to be 
>>>> overcome), prismatic meanings lit by each others’ light, stained by 
>>>> each others’ shadows. In the wash of poetry the old, beaten, worn 
>>>> stones of language take on colors that disappear when you sieve them up 
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>>>> -Adrienne Rich, “Someone is Writing a Poem” (1993)
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