WARNING Collars of woven nylon webmaterial are dangerous
From:
JOHNANDEBHANCOCK@AOL.com>
Subject: Please let every dog owner you know....Extremely
dangerouscollar!!!
THIS
COULD SAVE YOUR DOGS LIFE!!!
We hope this email may
save a life. Unfortunately it is a horrible lesson we just learned.
You may remember the beautiful girl we rescued out of O.C. shelter.
'Aya'. Aya was out in the back playing rough with our
other dog unsupervised ..during this play her 'Nylon web collar '
came off. No biggie right DEADLY WRONG!!! As with many young dogs
Aya loves to chew 'everything' and she ate her collar leaving only
the plastic clip,
adjuster, metal ring and license all this happened in less than a
half hour Friday night. Sat am she had only passed a few small
pieces vet said to watch her and all should pass in 24 hrs. Sunday
am she was not doing
well.took her to emergency by noon Sunday she was in
surgery!!!!
Severe blockage in several areas of the small intestines and much
of the collar had unraveled and was trailing throughout her
intestines and stomach . The vet had to remove several sections of
intestine where the nylon fibers had ineffect knotted her
intestine. We lost her at 5am this morning. we are
crushed
The
way these collars and leashes are woven even 1inch can unravel
to
threads several yards long and the Nylon does not break it just
keeps
unraveling so please forward this on.
We are heartbroken. Jeff
& Chika Kritz
In answer to your questions...no We don't have a pic of the collar
for you
or a brand name. This makes no difference,these items are sold by
the 100's
at 'EVERY' pet store in the US. We purchased ours at a local
feed/pet store
in town. Go to a Petsmart or Petco and you will see dozens of
sizes,patterns
and colors on the shelf. A more detailed description: Woven Nylon
Web
material made in many colors and patterns. We have all seen them
and most of
us with dogs have such items. In my opinion it does not matter if
the clasp
or buckle is metal or plastic...that is not what caused our
babys
death.....it was the Nylon webbing coming unraveled in her
digestive tract.
This warning is for "ALL" nylon collars,
muzzles,harnesses,leads,leashes and
like products that when chewed could unravel.
Thanks, Jeff Kritz