04/26/2009: "Martingales"
Zak, who is my brother, got a lovely dragonflies collar. Me jealous never!
Mum decided to do a test to see if she could do a more standard style martingale collar. As Zak really liked the dragonflies fabric martingale mum made for him she decided to use a similar design.
It started off as a long loop martingale with a slide (based on some slip collar leads that mum made for Brin’s mum).
Mum says that this is great for people who just slip a collar on to walk the dog and either don't let the dog off the lead or have a separate tag collar on and take the martingale off to let the dog run around. Otherwise the long loop hangs down and is too impractical.
So then she tried a more standard martingale and this is the result:
As Zak pulls a lot mum made the martingale bit wider than on the first test and this does sit a bit stiff so for a dog that didn't pull lots mum said she would make it the same width as the first test, though I think that with wear this should soften a bit.
The main drawback of the latest design is that it needs reasonably good measurements as it is not adjustable and you wouldn’t want a collar that didn’t fit over your head.