Why even have a collar with no ID tags?!

[wolfsoul]

Visa has a collar with an ID tag and her license. Visa isn't an escape artist and she has stayed in the backyard even though the gate was blown open by the wind, but I wouldn't take any chances. There are always situations in whivh a dog might get loose. A couple of years ago, Visa's breeder took Visa and Visa's mother and grandmother camping. Because the dogs were in a group, they all took off. Everyone searched for them for two days. If they would have had tags, it would have been so much easier to find them. Luckily, a crew of carpenters were listening to the radio announcement about the dogs and phoned in -- the dogs got lost and had been hanging around their building site.

Visa's tag has her name, my home and work numbers, my address, and it says "medication needed" and "please call my mom." She doesn't need meds but there's the off-chance that someone might want to keep her instead of giving her back to me, and I'm sure they would change her mind if she needed meds.

[dappledoxie]

Claire and Rebel have their ID and Rabies tags on their harness/collars. I plan to have them microchipped as soon as I can.

[Ree'sKujo]

Kujo has a tag for rabies,his microchip,a personal tag w/pnone# and his county license tag.Being he's an Akita and they love to run I want to be safe and make sure someone can always find out where he belongs.I do however take his color off when he's in the house and put it back on when he goes outside,wether it's for a walk or just in the back yard.

[dab_20]

well my friend had a pittie mix that would 'never' run away. they said he didn't need a tag since he always stayed with them. well one night he was outside and a thunderstorm came and he ran off, they never found him. in cases like these, it shows you to always take precautions.

[anna_66]

ID, rabies tags and city tags are the reasons my dogs even wear a collar.
There is no way I would risk them NOT having them on. You never know what is going to happen.

[Husky_mom]

none of my dogs had escaped, but when i had the belgian.....she was the escape artist that thought them how to, she even squeezed in a 4 1/2 inch space between bars and got out wander a bit and then come back so i installed a link fence all over the house now it seems like a prision LOL LOL but since her some dogs have tried to but with the links on no way jose.

and about the ID tags, i have no collars on them unless when walking them, and i have no ID tags except for the rabies tag, i want to get some but here there are not many places if any that make dog tags, so i need to get some from USA. i also like to buy the ID bag because of the tingling, thay go nuts and try to take it off.

[IRescue452]

Microchips aren't commonly known yet, only among the pet savvy. A dog without a collar still LOOKS LIKE A STRAY. It can be shot, it can be picked up by a family who never knows it has a chip, anything can happen. Microchips don't advertise that the dog has a home.

[Jessika]

MICROCHIPPING IS IN NO WAY, SHAPE, OR FORM TO BE A REPLACEMENT FOR HAVING TAGS ON THEIR COLLARS.

That ticks me off, too. What if your dog gets loose and a neighbor down the street or a few streets over find him but don't know he's yours? Obviously they don't have a scanner to scan for a microchip. What if they just decide, hey, he's cute so we're thinking about keeping him??

What if his chip has travelled and is no longer in the shoulder so when the vet scans, nothing comes up and therefore think he's not chipped and he goes up for adoption or, even worse, gets put to sleep if nobody adopts him???

Regardless of whether my pups are chipped or not, they ALWAYS have id tags as well. Charlie especially, since he is partially deaf and VERY scared of strangers, I have extra information on his tag letting them know he has hearing problems.

[cyber-sibes]

mine are both chipped and wear id's on their collar along with rabies & county tags. Star's been returned to us twice when she wandered the neighborhood - once because of her microchip (returned by the dog catcher who scanned her) and once because the people that found her called the number on her tag. So I recommend using both. I do have a second collar with only an ID tag for Sherman because he kept getting it caught between the decking & ripping the tags off. my husband drilled a small hole at the bottom, and now I have it sewn across his kennel collar. But when we go out, he gets the collar with all the tags.


sarah, you brought up the second reason for the collars, too -- medical alerts. Sherman has impaired vision, so I have that on his ID tags so people will be aware of why he may seem skittish or growl if they get around his head. Better than having them think he's mean!

[buttercup132]

all my dogs have tags even roxy dose(shes a bunny) but then again roxy and the dogs area always at paks playing without a leash and roxy plays in the back unsupervised so tags are a big thing for my pets

[buttercup132]

all my dogs have tags even roxy dose(shes a bunny) but then again roxy and the dogs area always at paks playing without a leash and roxy plays in the back unsupervised so tags are a big thing for my pets

[Ree'sKujo]

Most microchips come with a tag that has the number to the microchip company so you can call them and the owner can be contacted.If your not going to put the tag on the collar there's no point in microchipping the dog.I put his microchip tag on his collar as well as a tag with my phone number,the rabies tag also has the vets phone number on it.

[CathyBogart]

That's a great question. I found a HUGE puppy a few months ago with a collar and no ID tags. I took him ot the shelter, and when I stopped by a few weeks later they told me he was still there. If he had had an ID tag I could have gotten him back to his people that night.

[LuvGold00]

None of my guys where collars when they are home, but when we go to agility class Nova has a collar with his tag on it, but they are all microchipped too.