I like the use of collar tags, but we use rolled leather collars on our pyrs due to the long hair.
I found a young beagle/basset wandering on the side of the road one stormy night last year...I was about 6 miles from home. I picked him up & brought him home w/ me (after waiting in a nearby parking lot for nearly an hour w/ hopes someone was looking for him. When I got home, I realized his nametag was riveted to his collar (very nice) & called the number on it. The guy answered & I told him I found the pup, he asked "how many did you find?"...at that moment I wish I had never made the call
Apparently he had been hunting with two of his dogs & they both took off & he couldn't find either...he was at least 10 miles away in the opposite direction when I had called.
Has anyone else done this? Instead of my dogs' names on the tags, I have printed, 'Reward4Return'. I don't really care if whoever finds my dog knows what to call him, or her, but I do care that they understand they will be rewarded for getting my dog back to me. I also have the microchip ID tag on their collars. I have heard some say that might give a dog thief the idea to enter the database and change the owner records. My feeling is; if the dog is lost one of the first notified is the chip company. Any attempts to change info at that point would, I'm sure, be flagged. Plus, you could get a direct link to the thief. Debates?
Microchipping is great & I don't believe it would be bad to advertise that the dog has been chipped. With all the security questions out there, I don't think it can be done easily & I don't think any sophisticated dog thieve ring will be after my dogs anywho. But I can understand the concern.