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Pet I.D. Tags

Did you realise it is possible to obtain pet I.D. tags here in Trinidad? We now know of four sources.

  1. Barkkins Dogs Ltd,13 Warren Street, Woodbrook, 622-6748, for tags of different sizes and styles while you wait.
     
  2. Beverly at 637-1251 or 775-7415 for high quality brass tags ordered specially for you, in two sizes and three shapes.
     
  3. Dianne Chinn, who has a display board at Jones Animal Clinic in Diego Martin, imports very attractive, high quality tags from the USA. Tags take about 10 days to arrive and would make a great gift for a pampered pooch and very possibly a life saver for a straying pooch! Call Dianne on 671-2505.
     
  4. Trinidad Trophies, just opposite the Oval on Tragarete Road. They have started to do tags too. They are not as pretty or as strong as Dianne's, but are quite adequate and cost a little less, however, you would have to supply your own split ring (from a key ring) to attach it to the collar. These tags take about 6 days to be ready.

A tag can quite literally save your pet's life and it can certainly save you and your pet a great deal of distress if he or she goes missing. Everyone says their pet never strays, never gets out and never would. However, there is a first time for everything and even in the most well ordered households accidents can happen.

Some time ago, I noticed a older dog, slightly lame, aimlessly wandering near the main road in Westmoorings on a hot, sunny afternoon. The dog looked rather lost and confused and I stopped and literally collared him, as, unusually, he was wearing a collar. Even more unusually, he had a tag attached with a name and phone number. I called the number on the tag and discovered that the dog was indeed lost and some distance from home. It was a longer, more complicated story than this, but the end result was that the dog was back home within 2 hours and none the worse for his ordeal. Without a tag he could have been taken to the pound and put to sleep within a week.

Now, who says they don't need a tag?
 

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