Matching collar and leash?

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

Trying to decide whether to get a matching collar and leash for Yogi. I love the lupine one called turtle reef. Should I match or just use a simple black leash?

Just curious how many of you buy matched sets. This will be the first collar I have bought him since he came home. So excited! ( doesn't take much)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

If you can match it, of course you should!  Duh!  :-}   No self respecting doodle wants mismatched apparel.  Just kidding.  When I can, I do buy matching or coordinating, but not necessarily.   I do have a few collars for special occasions that have matching or coordinating leashes.  Their everyday ones are color coordinated except that I have leather for Clancy.

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

Haha. I wasn't sure since yogi is a male if he'd appreciate matching ;-)

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Because my guys mat around collars, their normal collar is either rolled leather (boring) or a water collar with decorations (manly decorations of course). They are customized and each of their collars have two different types of decorations - Ned has a brown collar with monkeys and duckies.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I love that rubbie duckie collar.

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

Ned has duckys AND monkeys - suits his personality perfectly. The company is so cooperative.  I wanted the thin for Ned but needed it a bit longer - she did that  plus said she would use whatever blingee things I wanted in whatever combination.  When these babies get wet they don't mold or cause any problems with their coats.  I love them.

[F, Calla & Luca]

I don't buy matched sets. I made my own leashes you can't see my doodles collars most of the time.

[Leslie, Yogi & Maci Bear]

What do you make your leashes from?

[Janie, Jackson and Jilly]

Match by all means! The Lupine ones last forever too so it'll be around for a long time! Jack has a Lupine set, the pattern is Tail Feathers for over a year now and it still looks brand new! He thanks me every day for going all out for the set! ; ) I did get Jilly a really cute Lupine set thinking she'd grow into it and I'm still waiting....

[Jarka, Monty & Auggie]

If you can match, do that! If you were at our house, you would think we have at least 15 dogs. I have a "tiny" obsession with collars.... Sometimes it's hard to find both collar and leash in the same pattern (let alone same pattern, but different colors for two boys since I don't want them to be wearing the same collar, just slightly different, LOL). So what I do is buy collars I like and if there is no matching leash, I just buy a simple leash in the main color of the collar.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I have tons of collars, including the turtle reef one, but we only use leather leashes. I switch out their collars quite frequently. Have fun!!

[Sue & Lily Grace]

Lily Grace has mainly matching collars and leashes. Her closet looks like it houses enough to outfit a kennel. We laugh when Lily goes to the groomer and they try to guess which clean "outfit" she will wear home. Go for the matching!

[Diane Sloan]

I have bought lots of matching sets-we have way more collars and leads than we need.  Please note I have bought the lupine leads and I do not like them as they are very stiff and while I used them when they were pulling I found them to not be comfy on my hands.  I love the collars as they stay looking like new for a long time.  I am just not a fan of their stiff leads.