The Best Collars to use

Here is a caution for people about collars:

12 years ago, on a blustery late December afternoon, I gave my pomeranian, Cassandra a bath. I removed the collar of course. She was running around the house afterwards and there was no hurry to put the collar back on. I wasn't feeling well, trying to get over the flu. Hours later, about 6pm as the weather turned worse, I ran down to my car to get my flu medication. I was wearing shorts and a tshirt....it was a 30 second trip. Cassandra ran down with me.

She vanished.

I spent the next 45 minutes, still in the shorts and tshirt, searching for her before I put on more clothes and called friends to get help. I sent my friends home at 1am with the promise that I would get some rest.

I lied. I kept searching. Her collar securely in my pocket. At 8am I called the local police. I kept calling them every hour.

At 4;15 that afternoon they called me back with a descripton of a lost dog about 10 blocks away. I broke every speed law getting there. It was Cassandra.

I had spent the day wandering in the frigid cold looking for her. She spent the day on a couch at a local car dealers eating leftover turkey. The owner said she walked in as he opened the door that morning, jumped on the couch and gave him a friendly little bark and snuggled down to wait. It wasn't until he wife came by a 4pm and suggested that they turn her in to the police that I was able to locate her.

She was thrilled to see me and I put her collar on her before we left the building. Had it been on her, I'd have been called a 7:30 in the morning.

I was admitted to the hospital for double pneumonia at 9pm that night.

It was an extreme case....I know but one that shows how important their collars really are!