How to Choose a Dog Collar

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Zephyr Clarke-Dalberg with Miami Dog Training in Miami, Florida. When you are choosing a dog's collar first of all most dogs should have a flat buckle collar that they keep on a majority of the time. Unless you are using something like a slip chain or a training collar, but at least with a flat buckle collar that is something where their ID can go on, that stays on there. Sometimes some of the snap collars, the ones that snap in, they have a plastic snap kind of like a luggage snap. Those are, if you have a good size dog and they ever get it caught on something, if they every get out and they escape and they get that caught on something, in pulling they will break that collar. So a flat buckle collar, kind of like a belt buckle those are really the best ones as far as a flat collar goes. And then you know some dogs just tend to be harder or tougher than others. So some may respond to a slip chain like this, and others need something that gives them more of a bite. Because the prong collars or pinch collars simulate more of a dogs teeth. So by giving them that little bite from an alpha they respond a lot quicker. Where some dogs respond a lot quicker to lets say a pinch collar or prong collar than this. And some dogs respond to even less than this, maybe they don't even need a training collar. It's pretty rare, but response wise they really, they may not even need a training collar. It depends on how sensitive your dog is, and really what you believe. Now there is also harnesses, harness is a type of collar. But it's used to make the dog pull, so it's something to consider when you are thinking about buying a collar for your dog."