When? Will Folk Learn To Put A Tag On Their Dog

[Joanna]

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:rant: :rant: FFS.....Tonight a beautiful golden retriever bitch appeared outside my house, no tag, well cared for....Phoned police, no reports of missing dog. My neighbour and I asked all around the village, we even went went to the pub :cheers: to see if any-one owned the dog. An hour later, I was preparing to keep her at my house until the owner was found. Last resort, we went up to the common, and heard some-one had lost a GR called Rosie. We searched for the owner, and eventually got a phone call 2 hours later.......Rosie was reunited with her owner, and I couldn't help but say she should have been tagged It turns out she was spooked by a hot air balloon, well they would have saved a great deal of time if they had bothered to put a phone number on the collar :rant: :rant:

 

[chelynnah]

Good for you Joanna!! Not everyone would have put in that much work to find the owner.

Wendy

 

[peddermccoy]

:rant:   :rant: FFS.....Tonight a beautiful golden retriever bitch appeared outside my house, no tag, well cared for....Phoned police, no reports of missing dog. My neighbour and I asked all around the village, we even went went to the pub :cheers:   to see if any-one owned the dog. An hour later, I was preparing to keep her at my house until the owner was found. Last resort, we went up to the common, and heard some-one had lost a GR called Rosie. We searched for the owner, and eventually got a phone call 2 hours later.......Rosie was reunited with her owner, and I couldn't help but say she should have been tagged It turns out she was spooked by a hot air balloon, well they would have saved a great deal of time if they had bothered to put a phone number on the collar :rant:   :rant:

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WELL DONE Joanna, :cheers: :cheers: :huggles: :huggles:

lol shazxxx

 

[~Sarah~]

Good for you Joanna :thumbsup: :thumbsup: - and also for saying she should have had a tag on!! :- " :- "

It is a legal requirement for a dog to be tagged. They were lucky you looked after her and did not involve the dog warden. Do you get charged to get your dog back if the dog warden has been involved and the dog is not tagged?

 

[whippynit]

Good for you Joanna :thumbsup:   :thumbsup:   - and also for saying she should have had a tag on!! :- "  :- "
It is a legal requirement for a dog to be tagged. They were lucky you looked after her and did not involve the dog warden. Do you get charged to get your dog back if the dog warden has been involved and the dog is not tagged?

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Apparently you get a written warning first time and then charged twenty quid or something thereafter!

 

[Joanna]

I just find it incredible that people who seem to care so much are prepared to spend 2 hours looking for the dog, but not 10 minutes getting a tag engraved.......

Interesting about the charge, I wondered how they enforced it!

 

[*Lesley*]

Lets hope that the experience has scared them into getting a tag for her,well done for reuniting her Joanna :thumbsup:

 

[Rae]

I know exactly how you feel.

A few months back our friends rang to say that their crazy Dalmation had escaped the field where they keep their horses and was on the loose. I was flagging cars down on the main road to see if anyone had seen him and luckily he was in the back of one of the cars, and they happily handed him to me and I took him home. I had a go at them for not having a tag on him..............

Two nights ago guess what........ Dalmation and alsoo this time their Mountain dog puppy escaped.....lost for 4 hours.......still no tags / no microchips :rant: ......... I found them by ringing the police and finding out they were in a farmers stable near by. They have been so lucky to get their dogs back twice now, and today have they got tags yet? No. :angry:

 

[fallenangel]

our dog wardens charges strate of and and the charges go up everytime the dog is found untaged. still does seam to make any differnce the maine dog with out tags on are the ones that have run out the door or got out the back garden. with owners that take collers of in the houes. even though my dogs dont wear there leather walking collers in the houes thay do were a light weight coler with a tag on all the time as there microchips are only a backup and every one of there collers has a seprat tage so there no bother changing the tags if you change the coller.

why is it when you meet the owner of the lost dog they are in tears and very distresa they carnt be that bothers if they cart stick a cheep. £2 tag on there coller is there dog not worth that.

Well done for telling the owner strate

 

[Susan]

My dogs have no tag's on their collar ,,they never wear them unless out for a walk,,,I have thought about them not having a tag now and am going to pets at home tomorrow for new ones. All the old ones have the old phone number on them anyway. What scares me is when we are away to England racing and you never know,, one might go missing,,So I am putting my mobil number on one side and my house number on the other side. Is this the best idea for tags ?

 

[Joanna]

Well done Susan.....To be honest, I cram as much info as possible on my tags. Address and all phone numbers....no names though, ours or the dogs. You are by law supposed to put your name and address, but I think phone numbers are more important.

Jo

 

[Cerito]

I think the law says you must put name and address. A mobile number is a very good idea. We were out in the fields looking after my greyhound escaped on fireworks night. Rosie was miles away but luckily someone had her and had left a message on the ansaphone at home.

Make sure someone is home to answer the phone, and if you have put a mobile number on the tag that you have the phone with you and you have kept it charged!

We have the vet's number on there too. If someone can't get hold of us they could speak to the vets and take her there if she is hurt.

I can't understand any arguments for not keeping house collars and tags on dogs. The chance of a dog nipping off and getting lost has got to be hundreds of times more likely than someone leaning over a fence and picking them up by a collar.

Cerito