“And that’s what they always figured is the dogs got eaten by the gators,”
I must be losing it. When I first started reading the article, I was thinking “dog tags” were MILITARY dog tags. I never thought of DOG dog tags.
Those tags, both military and for canines were stamped out on a Graphotype machine, they came in different versions from one you could pick up and carry to others that needed two strong men to lift one. They were made by a company called Addressograph-Multigraph which was known later as AM International. I worked for the company at one time.