[nagdu] Micro Chips and Licenses was Re: collar owie

[Nicole B. Torcolini]

GDB does not provide chips or licenses; however, Lexia has both.  I paid to 
get her micro chipped, and the license was free for service dogs.  /Also, 
she wears two collars: the GDB issued chain collar and a regular cloth 
collar.  I keep the cloth collar tight enought that she cannot slip out of 
it easily.  I leave the GDB collar hooked to her leash and take it off of 
her in the house.  She has never had any trouble with her hair getting 
rubbed off; she has quite a thick mat of hair around her neck.  It almost 
looks like she's waring a jacket with a collar on it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Merritt" <wcmerritt at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [nagdu] collar owie


> This would also be a good reason to have your dog microchipped, if
> they're not already. That way, if the dog got out and assuming the
> person/agency that finds them has the correct scanner, the information
> for the dog would come right up and you'd be contacted right away.
> Even if the dog was obtained after some of the schools started
> microchipping dogs, it would be well worth the $20 investment or
> whatever the cost to have the vet or pet store implant the chip.
>
> Wayne
>
> On 1/21/10, Linda Gwizdak <linda.gwizdak at cox.net> wrote:
>> Tracy, what kind of collar are you using on Echo? Is it chain? Is Echo a
>> Golden or have long hair?
>>
>> Some of the pet suppliers like J&J Dog Supplies or JB Wholesalers sell a
>> nylon buckle collar that has a padded lining.  Try one of these. Another
>> collar that may work is a nylon choke collar.  Or a nylon martingale 
>> collar.
>> Having your dog without the collar and tags would present a problem if 
>> She
>> got out.  A friend lost her guide dog and it was found a few days later 
>> by
>> someone who saw the tattoo in her ear.  There was a newsstory on TV about
>> the dog and the tattoo in the ear.  Dog and owner were finally reunited.
>>
>> When I had a German shepherd that needed lots of leash corrections, I 
>> found
>> that the collar rubbed the hair off the side of her neck but there was no
>> abraision.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> Lyn and Landon
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Tracy Carcione" <carcione at access.net>
>> To: <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2010 7:14 AM
>> Subject: [nagdu] collar owie
>>
>>
>>> Last night I discovered that Echo's collar had rubbed through her fur 
>>> and
>>> had been rubbing on her skin.  Poor girl!  Now she has a couple big
>>> callouses or owies.  They don't seem to bother her, but I've put some
>>> Neosporin on them, just in case.  And she's running around naked, which
>>> made her a little worried last night, but she's adjusted today.  I'm 
>>> only
>>> putting a collar on her when she has to go out.
>>> I feel bad that I didn't catch this sooner.  I brush her every day, but 
>>> I
>>> must have failed to move her collar around for a few days, or something.
>>> I wonder if old dog fur is thinner?  It's certainly oilier, in Echo's
>>> case.
>>> Poor old gal!
>>> Tracy
>>>
>>>
>>>
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