A greyhound can back out of an ordinary collar without trying. So can a whippet, a lurcher, a saluki and most other sighthounds. It is not a training problem. It is anatomy.
Why an ordinary collar slips
On most dogs the head is wider than the neck. A collar that sits comfortably cannot slide forward over the skull, because the skull is the wider obstacle.
Sighthounds are built the other way round: a long, narrow head on a neck that is wider than the head is. Nothing stops the collar sliding forward. Tighten it enough to hold and you are now pressing hard on a throat that has very little muscle or fat covering it.
What a sighthound collar does instead
It is cut wide at the throat and narrow at the buckle. The wide section spreads the pressure across a larger area of the neck rather than concentrating it in a thin band, and the shape itself sits against the neck in a way that resists sliding forward.
That is the whole idea. Not tighter, wider.
Our sizes
| Size | Neck | Widest point | Strap width | Max weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| XS | 21 to 27 cm | 4.5 cm | 1.5 cm | 10 kg |
| S | 26 to 32 cm | 4.5 cm | 1.5 cm | 15 kg |
| M | 31 to 37 cm | 5 cm | 2 cm | 18 kg |
Measure the widest part of the neck with a soft tape and leave room for two fingers, the same as any collar.
What ours are made of
Suede vegan leather, with a hand-set evil eye stone and gold-plated brass hardware, in three colourways: Azure Blue, Cinnamon and Bitter Chocolate.
They carry the same evil eye stone as the rest of the Evil Eye collection, so a sighthound can wear the same design as the rest of the house.
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