I am loathe to criticize the KittyCatS creators as they have done, and do, a marvelous job on almost all counts.
But I have to ask - what IS the point of supplying us with a collar template, and a collar demo prim - if neither of these actually let us see what our finished product will look like
before we go to the trouble and expense of uploading a permanent texture??
I'd like to call for KC's to update the collar kits with a fix for these issues. It wouldn't take a great deal of effort, but would result in many, very happy, content creators