# Meet my temporary dog! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 15, 2010, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-temporary-dog/536207 "2010-04-15T14:11:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/858c86/32.png) [@Mame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mame)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-temporary-dog/536207/21 "2010-04-16T23:05:36Z")
Our two dogs are runners - the joy of exploration gets them when they slip out the gate - “just one more bush, then ooooh loook shiny”, then they are lost. They are microchipped, and used to have collars with tags, but kept losing the tags. No idea how they got the tags off, but they don’t seem to loose the collars. We now have a [collar for each of them with their name and my mobile number embroidered on in big, easy-to-read high contrast letters/numbers](http://www.petcollars.com.au/examples.php). Makes it much easier for the person who finds them to let us know. We’ve met many people in the surrounding area now 🙂 These collars are available here at most animal related fairs, like the "Dogs Day Out"s, and the people running the business would make them on the spot or post them to you if you wanted a colour combination they had run out of. Cannot recommend these collars highly enough as a aid to getting your wandering animal back. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2010, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-temporary-dog/536207/22 "2010-04-16T23:22:36Z")
> [@FlightlessBird](#): > > I’m glad Kitty got reunited with her family. Did you have a conversation with them about microchips? Sort of. They liked the “FOUND” poster and as she was reading it and got to the part “female, collar (not tags, no chip)” she got all embarrassed and did a little apologetic mea culpa about how they’ve been kicking themselves for having been reminded repeatedly, but not getting around to it. They are kind of new to dog ownership in general, but this may wake them up. I really hope to pooch is at least up-to-date with her shots. ---
**Author:** ![Sailboat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sailboat/32/461_2.png) [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)\ **Post date:** [April 17, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-temporary-dog/536207/23 "2010-04-17T01:44:00Z")
> [@Mame](#): > > Our two dogs are runners - the joy of exploration gets them when they slip out the gate - “just one more bush, then ooooh loook shiny”, then they are lost. They are microchipped, and used to have collars with tags, but kept losing the tags. No idea how they got the tags off, but they don’t seem to loose the collars. > > We now have a [collar for each of them with their name and my mobile number embroidered on in big, easy-to-read high contrast letters/numbers](http://www.petcollars.com.au/examples.php). Makes it much easier for the person who finds them to let us know. We’ve met many people in the surrounding area now 🙂 > > These collars are available here at most animal related fairs, like the "Dogs Day Out"s, and the people running the business would make them on the spot or post them to you if you wanted a colour combination they had run out of. Cannot recommend these collars highly enough as a aid to getting your wandering animal back. Here’s another solution – a [collar tag](http://www.boomerangtags.com/page.php?c=collartags) that doesn’t dangle down, snag or break off. Our girls wear these unless they’re in the bath. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/meet-my-temporary-dog/536207.md?page=1)