I am getting a new 8 week old pup next weekend and I am interested in getting her tatted. What is the "normal" id tatt. And what age should it be done if there is one. Also where on the dog should it be done. Lastly anyone know of a place (besides the local "Tito's Tattoo") to get it done in southern California i.e. orange county.
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The tattoo used to be set in the inside of the dogs ear, and should be placed there at the place of the breeder. It is some kind of certainty, that this dog is offspring of the dogs the breeder mentions.
In europe in the most coutries the young dogs are being chipped in the shoulder at the age of 6-7 weeks old.
Look on the Schutzhund club of america website. They have a list of tattooers on the site. I am sure there will be more than a few within a couple of hours from you
In the US, it is not a requirement to have the dog tattoo'd or microchipped before it can be registered, like it is in many European countries and Canada.
However, I have been tattooing my pups for a long time, so that if I ever hear about a Mali showing up in the pound or rescue or whatever in the area one of my pups went to, I can be sure it isn't one of my pups, or if it is, get it bailed out and returned to the owner or myself.
This is what one of the leg tattoo's looks like The code I use is D (Dantero) The year the pup was born, and a unique identification # for the pup. If you look really closely you can see Crash's tattoo in his left ear in this picture
I'm in Southern California, specifically near San Diego, and would be happy to tattoo for anyone in the area.
I have both. I use the gun/pen tattoo equipment for the thigh tattoo's and the clamp (forcepts) equipment for the ear. I have been doing more ear tattoo's lately because my gun/pen tattoo equipment needed to be repaired, but it's working again so I will probably go back to the thigh tattoo's. I have to test it out and be sure the repairs fixed everything. The clamp tattoo equipment takes some experience so you can control the depth of the tattoo, but it's quicker and easier to do with squirmy pups. I don't like the black ink in the ear though, it's harder to read as the dog matures and the pigment in their skin darkens. Green ink works better in the ear as far as visibility. Where as the skin on the thigh seems to stay lighter in color all of their life, making the black tattoo stand out more.
AHH ok I have a gun and have done a few thigh tattos when you said ears I was wondering how you did that. Do you tattoo your pups at an earlier age on the thigh or wait till you have a buyer then do it? Why and what circumstance would you do a thigh or an ear?
I try to tattoo all the pups around 7 weeks, wether they are sold at that point or not (95% of them are). That way it has time to heal before they leave at 8 weeks, or it's just done. On occasion though the new owner has held the pup for me while I tattoo'd it. I prefer to use the pen, but I have to have someone to help me hold the pup if I do. If I have to I can do the pups with the clamp without help. Overall I think the pen makes a better tattoo that is easier to read. IF, and that's a big if, the person using it knows how to use it, and how to write properly. I've seen some pen tattoo's that looked like a 2 year old wrote them, they were very difficult to read.
Hello, We also use the forecips in the ear to tattoo our pups. I believe each breeder has their own unique system to help Identify their dogs.
Our system is based on the letter of the litter, meaning A litter, B litter etc, First Initial of the Dam, first initial of the Sire and then the pup number.
We did have a tattoo fade, with one of our females and we had to microchip her, but I think changing ink color to green will help eliminate the fading issue.
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