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Make sure your pet has identification

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Pets need to have some sort of identification so that they can be identified if they go lost. This makes it easier to reunite them with their families in a good and orderly fashion. There are a large variety of pet identification options out there and all of them have their own advantages and disadvantages.

People use these types of protection in the event that the pet runs off into the woods or chases one cat too many into an area that they are not familiar with. The risks of not finding the pet once they’re lost is severe: very few animal organisations have the capacity to house and feed lost pets who have been found.

Even pets that do not ever venture outside need protection: there are people who steal animals and there’s always the possibility of an emergency arising. So that’s why pet identification is important.

Some of these identification options are digital and some are analogue. This means that there is plenty of choice: people can use the option that they feel most comfortable with using. Not everyone feels confident enough to use pet identification that uses modern technology. And some people prefer using modern technology instead.

Another way of differentiating between identification options is to look at the permanence of the solution. How often do you want to buy a new pet ID solution? Is this something you want to utilize as a fashion accessory or are you happy to implant one device into the pet’s skin and be done with it for the next decade?

The various options give much choice, though it is sometimes a good idea to use a combination: this ensures that at least one other option be available to rescue workers should the other ID fail.

License tag: The city assigns a number to your pet on their database and they attach a tag to the pet’s collar.

Tattoo: Tattoos are a visible identification method and the tattoo markings are generally on an ear.

Microchip: This is one of the newer identification options and can be painlessly implanted under the pet’s skin. The chip is approximately the size of a grain of rice.


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Pet Tags wrote this article on the different types of pet identification that are available to pet owners.

Dog tags found in France unite families

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There are also a number of other reasons why pet tags are a great idea: it’s the fashion-forward thing to do and it gets Fluffy some street cred. Who knows, perhaps one of the street photographers might even snap Fluffy’s picture and write about them on some fashion-forward streetstyle blog. This is all good and well, however, it is not the ultimate reason why some – not all – pet owners have decided to get their pet some sort of identification.

But one of the main reasons for dog tags is to provide dog owners with some measure of peace. They’re at peace when they go on vacation: they know that Fluffy has identification so while they definitely do not want their beloved pet to go lost, they know that they’ll be able to find Fluffy should anything happen.

The origin of dog tags, otherwise known as pet tag IDs, or simply as pet tags, was in the army, when soldiers had to find creative ways to help rescue personnel identify them: they utilised these tags and added their name and surname to it in the hopes that they’d be identified in such a way.

This method proved to work and soldiers from all around the world soon used dog tags to identify themselves. One such soldier, James L. Sutherland, left a dog tag in a forest in Mayenne, which is in France. A George Sorin found the id tag but did nothing with it. His son, Marc, became fascinated with the dog tag that never revealed whether its owner had lived through the war.

Through a series of inquiries, Marc found the people who became James L. Sutherland’s family.  The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 972 played a great role in helping Marc find Mr Sutherland’s family, though the sad news was that he had already been dead for 16 years – natural causes at the age of 69.  Both families were amazed at what a simple dog tag can achieve: it can unite people, though they do not know each other, from different continents, nearly 70 years later.

This amazing fact is something that all dog owners should take into consideration. The chances that someone would find and return Fluffy to the proper family are so much better when the animal wears something that can identify to which family they should be returned. And this is why investment into any type of pet identification is so important.

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Pet Tags wrote this article about how a single dog tag can unite people from different continents, 70 years later.