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My Lab slipped out her collar and ran straight into traffic and without even considering risks I bolted after her. Sun just fell and we got lucky cuz incoming car saw me and/or her and stopped with hazard lights blinking that stopped both lanes. She couldn't continue because of that and ran off the eroad into someone's backyard that was fenced. Lucky about that too cuz idk that I could have followed her.
We has just adopted her from Craigslist a couple days prior and she was the most nervous wreck I've ever seen a 7yo dog. She's a helluva lot better a safety sense with women and wouldn't come out of that backyard to me because she flipped on men in general. She relatively does well with me if I maintain a good manner when approaching her and she's gain a good sense of familiarity with me since.
My wife came to after a minute and so I walked away from the area and she came to my wife. Had to cuz I dropped her leash when I took off chasing her. Didn't mean to but I couldn't stop and grab it again. So I while she sat with her I went back to get it and even the house's owner came out and asked if he could help but had to be told about the nerve wreck reference to men so he just went back inside. All this while my other lab was behaving fantastically with my wife and then back to the pick up with me.
Yeah. We got two labs in the city. I know. They're both really good bar whatever happened to her before. It's difficult but she is slowly healing from whatever. This was less than two weeks ago so we'll see how it goes. Now that we got a harness for her we are back to walks around town with them again and she loves it despite having to check on everyone every time everywhere at every moment.
Was the collar not sized properly? I have never known any dog to slip out of a properly sized collar unless they’re missing half their skull.
If the dog is determined enough... I had a beagle who would slip his collar, so I got him a harness, he would slip that too, so I had to get this full body "tactical" harness for him. He was good with that one for a while till he figured out he could cheese off the back buckle and wriggle out of the rest.
I also had a boxer growing up that learned how to slip her collar.
I have a friend who raises black and tans, and he had a removed that would always slip her collar when she was chained.
I currently raise Blueticks and fortunately have not had any of them figure that out. But my only indoor bluetick learned how to unlock deadbolts and open doors... so she is now an outdoor only dog. And then she learned how to open gates... so now all the gates have to be locked.
She's slightly overweight and the collar was not tight.