How to Make a Cut Collar for a Hog Dog

Stalk a hog through the river bottom's head-high grass. Come up to brush that rustles and crackles as if it were burning. When the hog shrieks, you tense and stop. But your dog charges right past you, toward the 350-pound tusked, bristly behemoth, and a dog like that deserves the protection of a cut collar. It will protect vital arteries, and it could be the only reason your brave, loyal friend will make it home safe from the hunt.

Things You'll Need

  • Sheet of tough material
  • 2 buckle-clasped dog collars
  • Punch
  • Hammer
  • 10 rivets
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Instructions

    • 1

      Find a sheet of a tough material, such as leather, webbing or a fire hose. Measure the circumference of the dog's neck, and also measure the length of the neck from the collarbone to the jaw line.

    • 2

      Cut a rectangle that has the same length as that of the neck and has a width equal to the circumference plus two or three inches. This extra width will ensure that the dog's throat is completely wrapped.

    • 3

      Lie out your material and lay two dog collars along the width. One collar should be about an inch from the top and the other collar should be about an inch from the bottom.

    • 4

      Pierce a hole through the collar and on through the tough material by hammering a punch through it. Place the stem of a rivet through the hole until the head of the rivet is firmly against the collar. The stem of the rivet should extend all the way through the hole in the collar and on through that same hole in the tough material, with just a little of the stem protruding out of the backside of the tough material.

    • 5

      Place a rivet washer over the stem that is sticking out of the backside and hammer that end until the rivet stem has flattened around the washer. The rivet should now be holding the collar and the tough material together.

    • 6

      Rivet both collars to the tough material this same way. Space the rivet about two inches apart all the way around the collar. Do not rivet the collars to the tough material right at the male end (the side with no buckle) of collars, but leave two inches of the collar hanging free.

    • 7

      Put the collar on the dog. Tighten the collars at the buckle. Run the excess tough material underneath itself so that it is overlapping under the dogs jowls.