Decent dog ID tags

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shore.RemoveThis@panix.com (Melinda Shore) wrote:

>
> If it's hanging around I'd be inclined to talk to the county
> about their recommendations for getting rid of it.

Thanks - I'll keep an eye out and ask the neighbor to as well. I don't
need a raccoon hanging out w/my dogs!

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Shelly wrote in
@registered.motzarella.org:

> the eejit down the street whose dog is tied out 24/7
> with no exercise, no mental stimulation, and no real attempt to
> tether safely.
>

Although without those eejits, I wouldn't have my Miss Queenerton. So I
strangely appreciate that her former owners were without a clue.

On the other hand, if they had a clue, she probably would not have
birdshot in her hindquarters.

She's at daycare today, and I got to see a lot of her playbows before I
left. I love playbows, they are the funnest little pose ever.

--
Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
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"Suja" wrote in
@mid.individual.net:

> Omit address and give both our cell phone #s?

Actually, I've returned several dogs who were on the lam to their homes,
and I hate it when the address isn't on their collars, because usually
it's a near enough neighbor that I can just walk him/her there, rather
than going home, with the dog, which raises a ruckus, and getting my
phone, etc.

A lot of people have fences here, so sometimes if the people aren't home,
I can just leave the dog and secure the fence. But usually the people are
home.

--
Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
www.ourladyofperfection.blogspot.com
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"ceb" wrote in message:

> Actually, I've returned several dogs who were on the lam to their homes,
> and I hate it when the address isn't on their collars, because usually
> it's a near enough neighbor that I can just walk him/her there, rather
> than going home, with the dog, which raises a ruckus, and getting my
> phone, etc.

Great! Now I can not do anything because there are good points on either
side of this one. What I really should do is order about 10 tags per dog
and put down all the information for everyone on the planet that could
possibly help if they went on the lam. So, it would be a normal tag, tags
of any friends, tags of any kennels where they'll be boarded, one for the
vet .... I should have a special collar/harness made that's all tags and
not much else.

Oddly enough, I've never been able to catch any dogs I've found running
loose on the side of the road. By the time I pull over and find a place to
park, they're gone. Or, I'd try to coax the dog into getting near, and the
dog wants no piece of it. We've returned the two dogs that broke out of
their house and turned up on our lawn, and the one we found on our walk, but
that's it. There were at least 8 or 10 others that I either couldn't find
again or wouldn't let me approach, even when they were all tail wags and not
being unfriendly at all.

Suja
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Suja wrote:
>Great! Now I can not do anything because there are good points on either
>side of this one. What I really should do is order about 10 tags per dog
>and put down all the information for everyone on the planet that could
>possibly help if they went on the lam.

You can get collars with contact information sewn into/onto
them, and put together with tags and microchips you can
implement a comprehensive multi-stage canine retrieval
strategy (talked with marketing folks this morning).
--
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Shelly wrote in
@registered.motzarella.org:

> Even with all the rest, if I don't get hold of someone
> immediately via one of the phone numbers, I call the vet listed on
> the rabies tag. That one seems to me to be the *most* important.
>

Why is it I always find dogs in the evening or on the weekends? Oh yeah,
the rest of the time I'm at work. Anyway, Zoe is not thrilled with new
dogs, especially females, so it would a hardship to have an extra dog
overnight. Not that I wouldn't do it, but it would be really hard.

--
Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
www.ourladyofperfection.blogspot.com
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ceb wrote:

> Why is it I always find dogs in the evening or on the weekends? Oh yeah,
> the rest of the time I'm at work. Anyway, Zoe is not thrilled with new
> dogs, especially females, so it would a hardship to have an extra dog
> overnight. Not that I wouldn't do it, but it would be really hard.

Well, I'm not going to keep an extra dog overnight if I don't have
to. So far, I've been lucky enough to encounter escapees during
normal vet hours.

Also, I probably should have said "has been more useful to me" than
"is more important to me." I don't have any advice of my own on
what to do tag-wise, beyond that I think they are important.

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Shelly
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http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)
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"Suja" wrote in
@mid.individual.net:

> Oddly enough, I've never been able to catch any dogs I've found running
> loose on the side of the road.

They know you and your kind. Even Queenie has figured out the concept of
confederates.

But I have had 3 dogs jump into my car when all I did was pull over and
open the passenger side door (from inside the car). One was a beagle, and
2 were border collies.

--
Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
www.ourladyofperfection.blogspot.com
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shore.RemoveThis@panix.com (Melinda Shore) wrote in
@panix3.panix.com:

> implement a comprehensive multi-stage canine retrieval
> strategy (talked with marketing folks this morning)

We expect you to keep your head about these things!

--
Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
www.ourladyofperfection.blogspot.com
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Shelly said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

>> Besides, shouldn't everyone be able to find our address
>> through our home phone #?
>
> If they are marginally braneful.

My phone company doesn't provide address information to on-line
directories. Animal services here will bring a missing dog
directly to his address, though, and if you're home there'll
only be a $25 fee.

--
--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.
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Rocky wrote:

> My phone company doesn't provide address information to on-line
> directories.

I wish that were the case here, actually.

> Animal services here will bring a missing dog
> directly to his address, though, and if you're home there'll
> only be a $25 fee.

That's a damned good deal.

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Shelly
http://www.cat-sidh.net (the Mother Ship)
http://esther.cat-sidh.net (Letters to Esther)
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"Suja" said in rec.pets.dogs.behavior:

> What I really should do is order about 10 tags per dog
> and put down all the information for everyone on the planet
> that could possibly help if they went on the lam. So, it
> would be a normal tag, tags of any friends, tags of any
> kennels where they'll be boarded, one for the vet .... I
> should have a special collar/harness made that's all tags
> and not much else.

Are your dogs USB-compatible?
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?c=3307+16+18695...atid=18

Or, lower tech:
http://www.idscopes.com/pet.html

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--Matt. Rocky's a Dog.
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Rocky wrote in


> Animal services here will bring a missing dog
> directly to his address, though, and if you're home there'll
> only be a $25 fee.
>

Another reason to move to Canada! Our animal services here won't take a
dog that I pick up -- they only pick up dogs that are running loose, and
if I have the (stranger's) dog, then s/he isn't running loose. Argh.

--
Catherine
& Zoe, Queenie, & Max, 3 black dogs of varying sizes
& Rosalie the calico cat
www.ourladyofperfection.blogspot.com
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