The dancing bears retire….

I found a dancing bears collar for Dylan when he was just a tiny pup.  He’s worn one ever since.  You can see it pretty well in this picture from when he was in daycare several years ago. 

I have bought several replacement collars over the least few years but I always went back to dancing bears.  It just seems to suit him!  We are Grateful Dead fans at our house and Dylan seems to be a good dead head dog!  Bob Dylan and Jerry Garcia sang together a bunch of times as well so it seemed fitting that Dylan wear a dancing bear collar.   I’ve actually tried to find a Bob Marley Collar for Marley but never succeeded.  She looks pretty cute in butterflies though.

Dylan has developed a really bad collar line from wearing a flat nylon collar everyday for the last 5 years.  I know short haired dogs do better with rolled leather collars but I just couldn’t bring myself to retire the dancing bears.  

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about changing his collar and finally took the plunge.  I just can imagine another 5 years of a nylon collar would make the collar line that much worse.   So now my handsome boy looks ever so handsome with a plain old rolled leather collar.  I actually think this one is too big but I am going to take it back and exchange it for one just a bit smaller.    I almost think he somehow looks more grown up with the leather collar.  It looks really good on him.  I’m not sure why I was so hesitant!  My camera phone doesn’t do him justice!