What to put on dog tag?

Question

I know what to put on a dog tag, Im not that bad but am just wondering if I should advertise on his tag that he is microchipped or not? I know that if I say he is and he goes missing then they can trace him to me but my other concern is that if he gets stolen and they see he is microchipped then they may be cruel people and just either k ill him or hack it out of him for fear of it being traced? This is my one concern on this really

Answer 1

This is funny to me, because I was concerned about the EXACT same thing when I microchipped my dog ("If I advertise that she's chipped, what if they rip it out of her so she can't be found??"). Needless to say, I didn't put that on her tag, just her name and our phone number & cell phone number.

You don't need to advertise that they are chipped on the tag, because most people will call your number that's on the tag, or a vet clinic and give them the dog's name and your phone #, and they can trace the dog for you via the chip.

My thought also was that by someone taking your lost dog to vet to ID who it belongs to by using the chip, they are just going to find out its you and call you anyway, so if your # is on the tag, it's the same thing with less hassle.

Answer 2

it really is irrelevant if your dog is microchipped ... if someone gets ahold of your dog and wants to keep it, they will, who will scan the dog to discover it is yours ??? two dogs i have had, both microchipped, lots of travel, and neither were EVER scanned in their entire lives ... you put the dogs name and phone number ... i add my address because where i live, if my dog were to be lost, she would be pretty close to home, so if i include my address, she could be brought right home ... once at the dog beach there was a dog with no owner and for hours people were trying to catch this dog ... finally caught him and his tag said "i am microchipped" ... well whoop de doo ... how on earth was that helpful ... called animal control but by the time they showed up, more than an hour later, that dog was gone again ... and they could have got their dog back with a simple phone call but who knows what happened to that dog ...

Answer 3

i don't know if your dog has had any obedience training but form your answer it sounds rather like a no (sorry if i'm wrong). So i assume he has not - you need to spend a lot of time teaching him who is the leader and training him to perform basic obedience commands. Read here https://tr.im/Oy0xT



To have a dog come to you - if you chase or move towards your dog, he will never come to you and he will see it as a game that you are tring to catch him. Have a yummy treat in your hand (like cooked chicken pieces) and let him know what you have. Once he is coming towards you to get his treat, say Come! and when he reaches you without running away, reward him. You can do this on a leash first, but dont use the command many times in a row as your dog will learn that he doesnt have to obey you the first time you say it.



Another tip is to tie ur dog on the leash, tie your leash to your waist and don't say anything to the dog, just walk anywhere like you normally would, and when the dog starts pulling the other direction, walk the opposite way so he has to learn to follow you. Do this for about 2 weeks as many times per day as you can, the longer the better, and after some time your dog will learn to follow you without the leash too.

are you taking your dog on daily long walks? or is he just in the garden the whole time? dogs need exercise, some more than others and when they have too much energy, you can't train them as they will not listen, so make sure you drain off some of his energy by a longer walk or a game and you can train him after he has calmed down.

Answer 4

We have the tag on our dog's collar that came when he was chipped that says "I'm microchipped, please scan me" - I would rather take the (small) risk that some really horrible person would try to get the chip out (which is REALLY hard to do, as it's very small, and all chip readers are deliberately able to scan quite a wide area at once so it's hard to pinpoint where the chip is) in order to have him found and scanned and home to me if he gets lost.



Our breeder recommended putting on his tag "needs medication" as it's likely to discourage someone trying to steal him to sell on.

Answer 5

yes you should put he is micro chipped if he gets lost he will be found quicker, usually people who will do all the things your talking about would not be interested in finding a dog, and that is a very unusual way to target someone for there information, I think you will be fine, and if you don’t if your dog gets lost trust me you will regret it

Answer 6

Never put it's name on the tag because if someone finds him they may just want to keep him

Put

(your name here) family

Address

Phone number

Zip code

Answer 7

You can put your name, Ph# and optionally your address along with his name. You can also put "I AM FRIENDLY!"

AS FAR AS THE CHIPPING GOES, MY OWN DOG HAS A SEPARATE TAG with the chip manufacturer's name and the chip number...That came along with the chip when I adopted her at our humane society!



So it is not a bad idea to have the separate tag with the chip stuff on it IMHO!

Answer 8

its name, your name phone number

Answer 9

I think you should ask yourself how likely it would be that someone would steal your pet.In California and many other states there are 2-3 different types of chips and if your dog is lost you would have to hope that what ever shelter or vet scans for a chip is using the correct company scanner.I would put a message on the tag saying chipped so if your dog is lost they will keep trying to figure out which ship to look for.

Answer 10

no need to mention it - the police/dog warden/ vet automatically check for the chip anyway.

Answer 11

Microchip Dog Tag

Answer 12

I put my puppy's name on the front.



On the back I put:



I'm Lost

Reward

xxx-xxx-xxxx

xxx-xxx-xxxx



That way people always know that she is lost and don't think "Oh, she'll know how to get home." Plus, stating that there is a reward let's people know that I do want her back and it can give someone an incentive to give her back to me.



When I got my puppy microchipped, the vet gave me a tag from the microchip company to put on her collar so I have that on her as well. Companies would not provide the tags if they thought it was putting the dog in danger.



I don't think knowing that a dog has a microchip is going to make someone kill him. That is kind of silly, to be honest, and a bit paranoid. No one is going to care enough to open the dog and take the chip out or kill the dog. If anything, they will leave the dog where he is. It could even prompt someone to return him if they otherwise wouldn't since the chip is a way to identify the dog as yours. If the person did decide to keep the dog and took him to their vet for a physical exam, there is the chance of the vet feeling the chip underneath the skin, questioning the person since they said they just got the dog, and scanning the chip to see if the information comes up as there person's or someone else's.

Answer 13

Hello JJ Looking at my dog tags hanging by my computer from my 27 years of Air Force service this is what we had on ours: Line 1: Last name, first name, middle initial Line 2: Serial Number (this is the person's Social Security Number) Line 3; Blood type (such as O Pos or A Pos or A Neg or AB Pos) etc. Line 4: Religion BOTH dog tags have the exact same infomation. There is why these things are on the dog tags. The purpose of the Dog Tags is to identify the person who is killed in action. Military people coming on a dead military person look for their dog tags around their neck. One tag has a small chain and the other has a long chain around the person's neck. The people take the small chain dog tag and turn it into their Officer in Charge. That way the service knows who was killed. Before they leave the body they take the dog tag that is around the neck and jam it between the body's two front teeth. That way when the mortuary affairs people come from the back lines and retrieve the body to return it and process it for shipment home they see the dog tag in the teeth and can identify and later on match up the fact that the body was found and recovered based upon the turned in dog tag that said that we had a casualty. The reason for the religion is so that chaplain in the field who comes upon the body can see their faith and offer up the appropriate prayers and last rites in the field. All chaplains are trained to officiate last rights in all the major religions. The purpose of the blood type is in case the person is wounded and getting first aid then if he is unable to talk the medics can see his blood type and give him blood transfusions of the proper type. The Name and Serial number identify the wounded in case he can not speak or is unconscious. It is all practical. I don't know why you are wanting to make up dog tags for a military member. We already have them and if they are lost we get new ones for free. And because we keep them around our neck we never lose them. I still have mine since 1961. Best wishes, Larry Smith SMSgt, USAF (Ret.) First Sergeant

Answer 14

If found he should be scanned by the dog warden that picks him up however if he was handed to a rescue some dont bother to scan (its happened befor and some even admit they dont have time to call the chips owner) . I would put it on there if you want, if your dog is stolen to be sold on to a dog dealer, chances are they would check for a chip anyway, as anyone can have a scanner (i breeder i knew had her own one) so they could just as easerly find it and try to cut it out if it wasnt on his tags, but if it was it would let anyone who found him if lost know to get him scanned.

Answer 15

put your address and phone number. id put the dogs name on it and there's really not need to put that he's microchipped if you dont want to. most people who find a missing dog will take it somewhere where they check animals for chips. i think it will be fine. even if you just want to put it on there, its pretty unlikely that if it is stolen, that the people will take out the chip. people who steal dogs usually arent smart enough to think about a chip being in the dog haha

Answer 16

Front (my dog for example, as seen in my pic)



LACEY



Back



255 ROCHESTER RD

LOS ANGLES CA (sorry for my spelling)

630-987-4612 (CELL NUMBER)

630-561-7765 (HOME NUMBER)



ps this is a fake it just an example put i did y\use my dogs REAL tag

Answer 17

HIS NAME

Answer 18

Irish...



Is that the kind of thing people do to animals in the UK? "Kill him or hack it out of him...?"



Wow!



My dogs' (3) tags are two-sided. Side one has their name, and side two has my home phone #, my cell phone # and my city, state listed.



They have a separate, second tag also on their collars with the name and phone number of the microchip company on one side and each one's microchip I.D.# on the reverse side.



If what you've described is what people do where you are living, I would never let my dog out of my sight!



P.S. A microchip "floats" somewhat...it is not stationary. If anyone "hacked" anything out of a dog, their only intention is to kill the dog.

Answer 19

dos name and your phone #

Answer 20

_NAME_

_PHONE #_

_ADDRESS_