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I'm glad you got your dog back safely! I always wondered if people with greyhounds lose them more easily than with other breeds considering how fast they are. I had to put e-collars on greyhounds staying at the animal hospital a couple of times and they're always slipping them off because their heads are so narrow. I couldn't imagine trying to keep a regular collar and leash on one.

You're not supposed to walk them with a regular collar. You use a martingale collar which, I'm not sure exactly how it works, but it helps prevent them from slipping out (they have tiny heads lol). I think maybe it tightens if they try to jerk back on it? idk. I know it doesn't hurt her (hell, she loves the thing, leash + collar = walk) but it's a safety mechanism.

Responsible greyhound owners are super, super careful about never letting them off leash unless there's a fence. It is very easy for them to get lost - they're fast, if they see an animal they can bolt, and they don't have a homing instinct (that's what I've been told anyway). We think she wandered back to the yard because she hadn't gone far and she was looking for us, not the yard itself (especially because she doesn't even live there yet, so it's not like it's her "territory").

What is an e-collar? Like a microchip?

I know how/why martingale collars work, but it's hard to explain in text. With regular collars, the force exerted on the point where the leash and collar connect distorts the collar into a teardrop shape when the dog pulls in the opposite direction, and that distortion is enough for a slim-headed dog to get an angle and slip the collar off. The mini-chain on the martingale means that the teardrop distortion still happens, but the part of the collar that's actually restraining the dog stays more or less round and the collar can't slip off at an angle. Am I making sense?

Yes, that makes a lot of sense! Thanks for the insight, anon!

AYRT

I never realized they were a specific kind of collar. I've seen them, but I wasn't sure how they worked either. I just thought they were wider for their long necks.

E-collar is short for elizabethan collar aka the cone of shame.

Ah, yes. The Cone of Shame.

(I feel like it would be a bit of a challenge to keep one on a greyhound...)

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