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TIFU by buying my dog a cheap collar

I feel so stupid just typing this out but at this point, it's such a hilarious story to my friends.

A couple of days ago, I got my paycheck and decided that it was time to delve in and get my dog a new collar even though I really didn't want to.

His old collar fit him fine, it was just tearing from his recklessness when walking through our woods during his afternoon adventures, and he had torn off the reflective stickers. He's still a puppy so I knew there would be a growth spurt soon that would take up the last bit of use that collar had. However, his growth spurts had slowed down and I decide he was going to stay at 45(ish) lbs for at least the next month or two so I bit the bullet and bought one.

I didn't want anything stylish for him to just ruin and have already decided that he'll be spoiled with stylish collars once he's done growing, so I grabbed a $5 bright orange collar that would ward off anybody still hunting on their land around our yard and went home to put it on him.

This is where the fun began. The dye wasn't properly washed out of the collar, and my dog is partially albino with no pigment in his fur. So, when it started to storm the next day, my dog came up with red(ish) pink stains surrounding his neck. I didn't notice it at first and had only discovered it when there was red on my finger and we couldn't figure out where from. I stepped out on the porch to ensure he wasn't bleeding and to my dismay the stains coated the underside of his neck. I immediately freaked thinking he had cut his neck somewhere and was bleeding.

So, I pulled him into my lap and searched his skin, but when I found no cuts or even scratches, I flicked on the light and found that it was in fact more pink than red. Now that it's stormed for a couple of days, the dye's mostly out of the collar and whatever isn't will be washed in his bath tomorrow, but yeah.

TL;DR A cheap collar made me think my dog got hurt and freak out.

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