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Basic Collars 

The dog collar is made out of various materials and put around the neck of a dog for control, identification, fashion, or other purposes. Medical information and identification dog tags are often placed on collars and/or embroidered into nylon web collars.  Minimum identification should include your dog's name and your home telephone number on one dog tag, and a city or county dog license tag.  If your dog escapes from your yard without a dog license tag and is caught by a dog catcher/governmental animal control worker, your fee to get your dog back can be in the range of $125-$250!  You'll have to pay for licensing fees, penalty fees, back licensing fees for every year your dog was unlicensed, 5-7 vaccines, heartworm check, and vet check-up, depending on the standard operating procedures where your dog is being kenneled.  Use your dog's collar for controlling your pet, as it provides an excellent handle for grabbing.

Flea collars are impregnated with chemicals that repel fleas and usually ticks. Use them as a supplementary collar only!  They should be worn in addition to a control/identification collar.

Elizabethan Collars, are shaped like a cone.  They worn by by your dog to prevent it from scratching a wound on its head and neck area, or licking a wound anywhere on its body.

Protection, Wolf and Stud Collars are collars fitted with metal studs or spikes that prevent another animal from biting the dog's neck.  For dogs protecting domestic livestock in case they are attacked by predators (hence one of the names, "Wolf Collar").  These collars protect the neck and throat from targeted attack.

Training collars

Martingale Dog Collars are a type of dog collar that provides control over your dog without the choking effect of a Choke Collar, also known as Humane Choke Collars or Greyhound Collars. This collar was designed for SIGHTHOUNDS because their necks are often larger than their head, and therefore, they can slip out of common buckle collars.  These collars are gaining in popularity among breed owners with many professional dog trainers, now recommending them instead of Choke Collars.  These collars are fitted to the precise size of the dog's neck when it is pulled closed.  When correctly fitted, these collars will be loose, and therefore, comfortable when not in use. When the Martingale Dog Collar control loop is pulled, the 2 slides (the rings at the end of the collar around your dog's neck) should pull close together but the two slides should not touch.  SIGHTHOUNDS, also known as GAZEHOUNDS, are hounds that hunt by sight and running speed.  In contrast, SCENT HOUNDS are hounds that hunt by scent and endurance.

Pinch Collars (also called prong collars) are made from chain links with opened ends that are turned towards the dog's throat and neck.  When the collar is pulled, it pinches the loose skin found around the dog's neck.  In nature, this loose neck skin is what mother dogs grab on to when they're transporting their puppies.  When accurately sized and adjusted, it not only startles your dog, but produces a sudden pinching correction.  Because of the looseness of the skin, your dog's hair, and the blunted ends of the open ends of the chain links, it is practically impossible to actually puncture the skin of your dog.  Even though this collar looks deceptively painful, it is less harmful than a Choke Collar.  The Pinch Collar has a constant limited circumference, and therefore it is impossible to compress the animal's throat and cause trachea damage like choke collars possibly can.  The Pinch Collar also requires less force  to execute a correction than a Choke Collar.  In time just a flick of the wrist will be sufficient to produce the desired result from your dog.  Also any pressure on the dog's throat and neck is spread out over a significantly larger area than with most common buckle collars and of course with all Choke Collars.

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