It turns out Katie lost her dog tags on mother’s day weekend. Perhaps Clyde was to blame because they played so hard together.
Both Clyde and Charlie Fishback wore tags ordered over the internet from BoomerangTags.com. I had a very hard time remembering or finding this website when ordering for Clyde, so I’m writing in down here for posteritiy.
This is a great example of internet ecommerce. You can tell the owners are dedicated to a quality product, provide you a lot of extra information if you want it, and they can mail you the product in a regular envelope.
Despite this caution, I ordered the medium brass tag for Clyde. I put his name, our name, and phone on one side, and address on the other side. (If he had had his url at the time, I would have put that.) The hole is reinforced, and the engraving is deep with some kind of color embedded in the grooves. I recommend putting a piece of leather between the tag and the aluminum “government” tag to help keep the two metal tags from wearing on each other.
I ordered one for each dog today. But I got the tag that slides on to the collar. We’ll see how that works. No way Clyde will be able to get that off of Katie.
If you need a quick temporary tag, you can go to Wallmart and make one in their tag machine for about $4. At least ours has one of those. You might not have such luxuries up there.
I got my collar tags today. I think they should last pretty much forever. There are some down sides:
People may not know to look for a collar tag and may think the dogs don’t have ID when they “find” them. The tags get covered by fur along with most of the collar.
Also it’s possible that hair could get stuck in the part of the tag that goes around the back of the tag and cause pulling. They recommend that you put the collar tag on the stub that sticks out, but theirs doesn’t stick out that much and if they did it seems like the tag would weigh it down and possibly slip off.
Make sure you get the right tag for your dog’s collar thickness and width. Fortunately they had one for inch-wide double thickness collars. There are different products for different configurations.
If I had a digital camera, I’d include a picture.