Your Pup Must Have ID!
Written by Walton Hong   
Monday, 06 June 2011
You can be the most attentive, loving, and responsible puppy owner ever. But despite all that, your puppy might still go missing. If she does, she may well wind up in an animal shelter, where nearly a third of the many millions of dogs they gather up every year are house pets who somehow got separated from those that love them. If the owners of these poor creatures can't be located and no other loving family decides to take them home, then they'refollowing they are picked up on the street. Your own puppy can effortlessly avoid this fate, however, by simply having some form of ID on her at all times.
by WaltonHong


You can be the most attentive, loving, and responsible puppy owner ever. But despite all that, your puppy might still go missing. If she does, she may well wind up in an animal shelter, where nearly a third of the many millions of dogs they gather up every year are house pets who somehow got separated from those that love them. If the owners of these poor creatures can't be located and no other loving family decides to take them home, then they'refollowing they are picked up on the street. Your own puppy can effortlessly avoid this fate, however, by simply having some form of ID on her at all times.

The conventional technique of doggie ID is really a tag hanging from her collar. This tag should have the fundamental info necessary for anyone who finds your missing puppy to obtain in touch with you. That would include your name, address and phone numbe. This info may also be engraved on a metal plate attached to the surface of the collar, or it can woven into the material of a personalized collar.

But collars are not foolproof. They can be lost or removed. Two other methods of ID don't have this issue. Some owners have their puppy tattooed with a number that's registered with a national group that keeps track of such things, like I.D. Pet. The problem with this of course is that a great deal of people who may discover your missing puppy would have no concept what that number means.

You could also have your name, address and phone number tattooed on your puppy, but that is a lot of data to place on a little animal (and it could be out of date the moment you moved or changed your number). Some also say the tattoo fades with time.

Probably the most contemporary puppy ID technique would be to have a microchip about the size of a grain of rice implanted between the puppy's shoulder blades. That chip could be scanned with a device like a grocery store scanner, which would turn up a number registered with a microchip manufacturer who has all of the information about the puppy. The average animal shelter has such a scanner, but the average individual who might find your dog does not. So the best solution is really a combination of solutions: a microchip for the shelter, collar tags for the great Samaritan who finds your wayward puppy and brings her to safety.

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