Karen,

Thanks for the story and the ID tag info. Making me rethink my
procedure.

Dean Mair

>        What started me tattooing years ago was a story about my friend who
>breeds Borzoi, her son was walking one of the dogs down a residential
>street, dog saw a cat and gave chase (sight hound mind you) and Jeff lost
>track of the dog.  Lois put ads up, radio, vets, law enforcement plus all
>the kennel club people were keeping their eyes open and finally one club
>member saw the dog, followed the people home and called Lois.  She called
>law enforcement to meet her there, officer went in, came back out and said
>the dog was perfectly at ease with them, responded to a name and he couldn't
>rightly take the dog away from them.  She whipped out the dog's registration
>certificate which had a tattoo number punched through it (we do this too
>when we tattoo a dog) and told him where to find the tattoo.  He went back
>in and came back out with the dog.  Somehow I doubt today an officer would
>of had a chip reader with him.  He also got a marked response to the name
>Lois said to call the dog.
>        This is also why on the i.d. tags I put on my dog's collars I DO NOT
>put the dog's name on it, only my name, address and phone number.  I
>wouldn't want anyone finding/taking one of my dogs to have that edge.