Hello. Iam going to tell you about how any puppies or grown dogs can die simply by playing together, if both are wearing collars.
When our Australian shepard, "Apolo" and our golden retriever, "Treasure" were about 12 months old, their favorite things to do were eating, sleeping and wrestling with each other.They loved being cuddled as well.
We never imagined that during their play they could have easily died, if we had not been home that evening.
The "pups" had the kitchen to play in and there was a board up between the living room and kitchen. We were in the living room watching TV when we heard an awful noise. My husband and I hurdled that board into the kitchen. What had happened was something we never would have thought about. Their collars got entertwined with each others and one was being strangled and the other had the collar through his mouth and it was pulled so tight that he was choking.
My husband and I grabbed them and tried with super strength to remove the collars. They wouldn't budge. My husband yelled to me " Cut them, cut them!
I bolted for the scissors. My heart was beating so fast , I felt like I was going to pass out. I grabbed the scissors and when I got back to Apolo and Treasure, I pried them under one collar and started cutting. The desperation, I'm sure, was on all our faces as the life of both dogs was slipping away.
I felt like I had been cutting for an hour and actually it had been seconds.
The one collar popped off from my cutting and the other was totally loose!
Treasure was on his belly crawling away and coughing, he was so weak. Apolo was lying still, but he was OK. I went to Tres and tried to comfort him.
This incident left all four of us shaken and with the vow that we never leave the collars on when they romp and play inside and out and never, ever, when we are leaving home!! Truely a believer, D.bug