If a collar and tag with my phone # & address have been sufficient for dogs for decades I see no reason to go all fancy and high-tech.
The network hung up for a few seconds. Sorry about the double post.
I was in the waiting room at my vet’s office last week and a couple came in with a dog they had found that had a collar but no tag. Turned out the dog was microchipped and the vet’s office got the info and called the owner.
I couldn’t help thinking the nice couple who found the dog would have been saved a lot of time and energy if the owner had just put a lousy tag on her dog instead of relying on a microchip that required someone to have to make a trip (with the found dog in tow) to get it read. I can understand doing both (although, if the government required me to microchip, I wouldn’t do it just on principle), but for someone to microchip and then not tag their dog seemed ridiculous.