Successfully saved dog but question re dog tags

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So, today i think I did my good deed - driving to my parent's house this morning, I saw a flash of black heading down the track from the woods on the other side of the road. To my shock, this 'flash' shot out into the 50mph road with 4 cars on that side of the road. Cue feeling of pure horror from me! Thankfully, one car driver was quick thnking and managed to swerve - not sure how as from that direction the view of the path is blocked by trees so the car driver had zilch time to react!

Anyway thankfully he missed the dog and the dog somehow avoided colliding with 2 other cars and shot across to my side of the road. Noone stopped and there was no owner evident so I stopped and got out to try and coax some very timid dog towards me. Poor thing was terrified (she was a large saluiki cross I think) and I thought she was going to get run over in front of me as she kept running round my car. Finally got her to come close and made a grab! Great, had a collar on with name and number. However, the number was a home number only and I was pretty sure the owner was probably out with the dog when it had legged it!

I tried the number several times just in case but then had to call my dad to come in his car as the dog would not get in mine due to my little 'madam' in the boot 'shouting' at her! Dad brought a lead and walked her back up to the woods to try and find an owner and,to cut a long story short he finally found a very desperate woman looking for her!

My question is - what number do you put on your dog's collar? I thought it was a bit daft to just have a home number on there when you're more than likely to be out with the dog when you lose it. Surely it makes more sense to have a mobile phone and put THAT number on there? I am really glad we found the owner and even happier I didn't see a dog run over in front of me but I felt I could have reunited owner and dog a lot sooner had there been a mobile number on that collar!!!
 
I have dog tags on my horses saddle or bridle so if someone catches them if i come off i use my mobile number

so i would suggest a mobile number
 
Well done for stopping, I hope the owner was suitably grateful. I have mobile numbers on discs, and although Pickle is my daughters dog he has my number on his tag because there is more chance of always getting hold of me.
 
Legally you must have your name and your address. We have these plus our home number and my mobile number. Considering getting more tags made with my other halfs number on too! Having just a home number is silly, that would only be useful if your dog ran off whilst you were home and you didn't notice... Which doesn't happen to many people!
 
Because Pickle is only diddy and therefore has a very small tag on his collar it doesn't have our name or the full address, just house name and postcode, plus mobile number and the word "chipped" as there wasn't room for microchipped :p, hopefully if need be people would work out what this means.
 
bubbilygum said:
Legally you must have your name and your address. We have these plus our home number and my mobile number. Considering getting more tags made with my other halfs number on too! Having just a home number is silly, that would only be useful if your dog ran off whilst you were home and you didn't notice... Which doesn't happen to many people!
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See, that's what I thought. I have my mobile number and my surname on my dog's collar and she is chipped. My blood ran cold as I saw what was happening, it was all in slow motion and horrid as I was just approaching. We have ourselves (many years ago) lost two dogs on that same road but it has since become 30mph limit for most of it (apart from that bit, that's where it changes and people tend to floor it).

My dad met the woman and told her I'd found the dog on the road and she was pretty mortified. He didn't expand and tell her what a close call it had been though! It seems something spooked the dog and she legged it. She was going back to the car I think but shot past it and onto the road and then i guess she panicked.

Wish my dad had told the owner to put her mobile number on that tag though - would have saved her a lot of worry and would have meant we got her dog back to her faster.
 
Pixel has two tags. One with our name, address, and 4 numbers! (our home, my mobile, OH's mobile & my mums mobile! :) ) So someone will be contactable! She also has a red medical type tag which says that she is partially sighted. It also has the vets number on.

Well done for saving the poor thing from a horrible fate!
 
I have a tracker tag on Flodden, not my own number as the tracker number goes to my mobile and if I dont answer it goes to my friends number and then to a 3rd and 4th emergency number that I nominated. all mobiles and all people who carry their mobiles.
 
Elle123 said:
Well done for saving the poor thing from a horrible fate!
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Yeah, well I know that feeling of finding your dog by the road after it's been hit by a car and then having to face the vet telling you there's nothing they can do. It is not something I would wish on anyone. :(
 
It drives me mad when I find a lost dog and it only has a home number on its collar. (And yes, it seems to happen to me a lot. I often walk in a heavily wooded area where a lot of urban dogs come once and awhile so lost dogs are a common occurrence and one of mine seems to have talent for finding them.)

Mine have collars with my mobile number embroidered in large script, in part because I'm not sure the younger dog would let anyone grab her (past abuse - anyone going for her scruff is a huge threat), although she'd likely come close enough to let someone see the number. Also, they are lurchers and lose tags in the bush with some regularity so at least, if that happens, they still have a collar with a number on it.

The dogs are almost always with me and/or I'm available so their main collars have my number. When I'm out of the country they have other collars to wear with my OH's number on them. On the rare occasions we leave them with anyone they stay with a friend who is a dog walker and he has separate collars/tags he puts on dogs he's walking with his number on.
 
We get a wide range of requests for engraving onto our dog tags. Some people just want a name, others do postcode and numbers, some put vets numbers on and others put 'microchipped' on. Had one from America this week requesting to have 'reward' engraved..... No contact number though....
 
I have a plate on Hens which has my surname, my home number, my mobile number, 'microchipped' and 'neutered' - the latter to make him a bit less nickable, given that Cockers are apparently the most commonly stolen breed.
 
I have both numbers on Lola's tag. However, it never occured to me that the home number is not really needed. The reason I put the home number on was because I frequently lose or break phones and the home number is always correct.

I didn't know it was the law to have a name and address on though =/
 
You're supposed to, but tbh I think you'd be pretty unlucky to get into trouble for it. I'd rather not have my address on display to the world for a whole variety of reasons! There is enough info on Hen to get him back home to me should it be necessary.
 
Ron's disc has my surname and mobile on one side, and OH's surname and mobile on the other. Deliberately no address (with him being a lurcher, there's no way I want an address on there for all to see). Was advised at the time to NOT put Ron's name on the collar either, in case he got stolen - so we didn't. He also has a separate purple plastic tag thing on his collar that came with his microchipping documents.
 
Ours all have our surname, my mobile number and our address on one side and 'microchipped' on the other.

We'll be moving soon and getting new tags for them and I think we'll get OH's mobile and my mum's on as well.
 
Ours have surname, house no. and postcode and mine and OH's mobile numbers. I have never seen the point of a home phone no., if one of our dogs went missing we certainly wouldn't be sitting at home waiting for the phone to ring! We also take them on holiday a lot so don't need to change tags as always have our mobiles with us.
 
Mine have their names on the front then on the back house number and street name, post code and mobile number. Then a separate plastic tag with 'I am microchipped' and the chip company's number on (I intend to replace this with a 'microchipped and neutered' plastic tag at some point).

I know some people don't like having the dog's name on there but it wouldn't matter a jot with mine, they answer to such things as 'oi, *****bag' and any stranger making squeaky noises would do, you wouldn't need to know their name to steal them away.

That bloody dane I keep finding only has the vet's number on his tag, absolutely pointless!
 
Mine have 2 mobile numbers on their tags. Spud, I also have chipped and neutered on the flip side of the tags, its my biggest worry actually, that someone would steal Chloe for breeding, then 6 months or so later when she doesnt come into season, just abandon her somewhere. I would like to think they would notice Alfs bits are missing before they took him but his tag still confirms he is indeed, lacking, in this dept!
 
Address on one side, mobile on other. Used to have vets but changed to address. I don't put chipped on or my dogs names on my vets advice..she had seen dogs where people had attempted to dig it out. If it hadn't been my vet though I would not have believed it.
 
Ours have house number, postcode, family name, home phone AND at least one mobile with "I am tattooed (or microchipped for Roxy) - call xxxxxx" on the back.
Also have tags with mobile numbers (4 of them!!!) on horses' saddle and bridle so in the event I fall off and she legs it, someone can be contacted.
K x
 
My dog has her address and the home phone number on her disc BUT the answerphone message at home gives out hubby's mobile phone number. The mobile reception round us is very dodgy and when we did lose the dog on a walk the people that found her left a message on our home phone and on hubby's mobile so that, after walking round the woods for two hours looking for her, we eventually hit an area with a mobile phone signal and were able to pick up their message. The lovely people who found her were on holiday at the time and took the dog back to the caravan park where someone recognised the address on her collar and dropped her off with a neighbour. She was happily sat by the neighbour's fire when we got home. Such a relief.
 
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