One of ODR's adoptive families has sent us an email that we felt was important to share: We had a near fatal accident happen this morning with Lucy that I want to pass on to others to warn them about (if you haven't already). We have never had a home with heater vents on the floor and all of the dogs love to hang around the vents, especially in the morning. Buddy does not lay on them like Lucy does, he sits off to the side.
We thought this photo was cute of Lucy but notice her little pink name tag on her collar. It slipped down the vent t
his morning and twisted sideways, hanging Lucy in the vent. Thank God we were in the same room with her an I heard and saw her struggle.
She was literally pinned down with no room to get your fingers between her collar to get it out of the vent. I rushed to her and tried to calm her down while my husband was trying to unsnap her collar. Of course she was crying out of fright and peed all over herself.
We were going to cut the collar off but managed to lift the vent up with her. I could not have handled this alone. Lucy was terrified and I held her for a long time. Thankfully, she
was not hurt but she could have died. We removed her collar and later she went right back to sit on the vent.
It was something we would never have thought of - all our dogs have collars with names and phone numbers on - and we buy the smallest ones. They need to have I.D. on them but I am thinking I should look for collars with the flat I.D.s riveted to the collars.
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