Bringing Home A Puppy This August?

If a puppy's just arrived, or is about to, welcome to the single most chaotic and brilliant few months of dog ownership. Somewhere in between the toilet training and the 3am zoomies, you'll need to sort a collar, and it's worth getting right the first time.

Why The First Collar Trips People Up

Most first-time puppy owners buy a lovely little leather collar, because it looks the part in the shop. Then reality happens. Puppies chew everything, including their own collar. They have accidents on it. They roll in absolutely everything on a walk, and a young leather collar handles precisely none of that well, it stiffens, stains, and starts smelling exactly like a puppy who's had a busy week, because that's exactly what's happened to it.

The other problem is sizing. A puppy's neck changes shape and size fast, and guessing where the next buckle hole should go on a leather collar is a genuinely annoying way to spend a Tuesday evening.

A collar that can't handle a puppy's actual life isn't doing its job.

What Actually Matters For A Puppy Collar

Three things, really. It needs to survive mess without smelling like it. It needs an easy way to size up as they grow. And it needs to be genuinely comfortable while they're getting used to wearing one at all, no one needs a collar adding to the adjustment period.

Where BioThane Comes In

Our Adjustable BioThane Dog Collar is built with exactly this stage in mind. It's completely waterproof and non-porous, so nothing soaks in, not mud, not water, not whatever your puppy's just discovered in the garden. Wipe it down and it's done, no stiffening, no staining, no lingering smell to deal with.

It's adjustable within its own size range, and comes in five sizes from XS up to XL, so as your puppy grows out of one, you're sizing up rather than starting from scratch with a whole new material and hoping it wears in nicely. And with 21 colours to choose from, there's no reason their first collar can't already look like it belongs to a dog with a bit of personality.

Getting Started

Measure loosely around the base of their neck, allow two fingers of slack for a growing puppy, and pick the closest size, you can always adjust from there as they grow into it.

Everything else about a new puppy is unpredictable. Their collar doesn't have to be.