I lived in a high rise for 6 yrs w/Gator, never came close to this happening. That girl was just plain negligent.

I started a thread a year ago with same vid
http://www.germanshepherds.com/foru...forum/current-dog-affairs/429794-shouldnt-have-happened-first-place-period.html

 

Oh I remember this one! I was going to be a Martingale collar fan but the ones I see don't have a plastic clip buckle??

After I saw this...collar with plastic buckles are all I use and I don't let leashes drag...well except for a drag leash with no handle.

 

Oh so scary....

 

Omg that is insane. Careless. But if you live in an apartment and this is your daily routine you might get careless one time and seems that's all it takes. I've always been a bit paranoid of lifts, so I don't think I would ever make such a mistake.

Great video posting. Just upped my elevator paranoia to 1000. And that's a good thing.

I think she just went down one level, or pushed the emergency button. That could have decapitated the dog. Imagine if it was a choke chain. Scary stuff.

 

That is terrifying, great video to share. I am just so happy she got him in time and it's good to spread awareness because I'm sure many people never even thought about that happening. Thank you so much.

 

Oh my gosh. She really did act fast to save her dog, and it was obvious how shaken up she was afterward. Good warning for all.

 

My understanding is the dog had a collar with a plastic buckle aka quick release and that is how she ultimately got him released??

But yes it did turn out well and a good heads up for all of us!

 

It was a prong collar

 

I saw that video a while ago. So terrifying. Very quick thinking on the owners part.

 

Indeed. Apart from her initial clumsiness. Those reactions saved the dog big time.

Pressing the elevator button to stop on appropriate level, or emergency button. Lifting the dog, and trying to release it immediately.
(If elevator kept going down, the dog was done).

That's a quick thinking lady. Couldn't have reacted much better.

 

It looked like she got bit or hurt her hand

I've used elevators quite a bit with my dogs. Some of our competition venues take place at conference centers or host hotels with elevators and I use them at work to access a bridge that crosses a highway when I have dogs with me.

 

Wow!!! So scary! I always feel better having quick release buckles on my collars. I even just finally found a prong collar with a buckle design that I actually like... I've been wanting one for a long time. Spending so many years with horses, I have it ingrained in me to always have some kind of quick release, either built in, or by carrying a sharp pocket knife in case of emergency (which is not ideal or very easy to use in a struggle, I'd imagine).

 

The leash however is a quick release (sort off), irrelevant of what collar you use. And if you are using a prong, esp. with quick release, you should have it tethered onto a second collar or have a prong cover.
Prongs do release themselves accidentally. Esp. Quick release. So... Nothing worse than a dog suddenly decides to chase some cat across street, jumps up, and across street and gets run over, because your prong released at the wrong time. Reliability is more important for me. I never have a prong on my dogs unsupervised anyways. And the happenings of that video will never happen to me. Esp. now. No chance in **** to I let a leash dangle anywhere in an elevator. If it was not obvious enough already, now it certainly engrained deep in my mind with visual clarity.

 

FWIW I have used three non-quick release prongs and two with quick releases and the only prongs I've ever had come apart unintentionally were the non-quick release prongs (the Herm Sprenger ones, no less!). If anything, I found the quick release tricky and not all that "quick".

Right now I have two dogs that wear a flat collar 24/7. One because he is our escape artist and hard to catch. The other is my young dog that has severe allergic reactions to very common meds so he wears a red collar with a medical info plate on it that explains what he can't have (so my husband, dog sitter, and friend at the boarding kennel don't have to remember, just show the collar to the vet if he's sick or hurt). Both of their collars have safety rings and are fit loose enough that it's easy for them to pull or slip out of them. I don't rely on these collars (or my prong collars) to be a 100% failsafe method of restraining a dog.

 

That happened to me . I was teaching my dog to stay when he was a pup. The door closed even though I kept pushing the button to keep the door open. The lift went down one flight luckily his leash was thin nylon and went down with him.
I don't think I've ever panicked more.

 

Scary. I've always used quick release collars after I watched my brothers dog slowly choke to death while both his dogs were wrestling and the ones collar got caught on the other canine teeth and we couldn't get it off no matter what we tried and the poor thing choked to death in front of us. I still get nightmares about that.

 

There was a thread that addressed just this point.

"Pointy faced" dog thing and it linked a site that explained the "issue" and I thought offered solutions...pretty sure that would have involved collars with quick release?

 

We lived in an apartment building with Hunter and we were taking the elevator with her several times each day. Even with our in-laws' young boxer with us for a few weeks (so, two dogs, two leashes to manage), we never had any issues. I'm relieved she was able to help her dog, but I chalk this type of event up to a freak situation that was more or less caused by inattentiveness to where her dogs/leashes were at the time.

 

Why it happened is not really in dispute! Important point is...beaware! Fortuately one was seriously hurt and it serves as a heads up to all of us!