Zelda's chip slid clear down around her sternum, a place where no scanner would ever have picked it up. I called the place and they said go ahead and re-chip. I would suggest doing that and using a different brand. If the first was Avid, use Home Again, and re-register. Chipping remains your best bet of getting a dog back. Then, mine wear embroided collars AND tags from BOOMERANG TAGS. They make tags that slide onto a leather or nylon collar, and they make dangling tags. <br>
Cooper's Boomerang tag dangles (his collar is leather and has his phone number and name on a brass plate riveted on the collar) and on one side it says COOPER and our phone number and, as an alternate, the Vet's phone and on the other side it reads IF I AM ALONE I AM LOST: LARGE REWARD<br>
He also wears his AVID chip tag. <br>I used to tattoo as well, but no one is looking for tattoos and you don't want to try to roll a big, male, frightened Belgian Sheepdog onto his back to check for a tattoo anyway.<br>
(Doing tattoos in the ear can damage the cartilege if the dog is too young.)<br> (Mine wear the embroidered collars when traveling. At home they have no collars on at all, except for Cooper. This is very dangerous and I do not recommend it.)<br>
<br>Momperson, who dreams that I am visiting someplace with several of the dogs and let them out and they run off. Usually it is Cooper. I spend days looking for him catching glimpses of him and then it turns out to be another Belgian, and/or I am visiting and have several dog with me and suddenly realise i am missing one or two, have no idea when I lost them or where. Sometimes I get them back and sometimes I don't.<br>
Sometimes I dream that there is a war or an earthquake or tornado and I have to get the dogs into saftey and I cannot find all of them at the same time. I used to have this dream about my children, but now that they are grown and gone, I have substituted the dogs. LOL.<br>