There are also a number of other reasons why pet tags are a great idea: it’s the fashion-forward thing to do and it gets Fluffy some street cred. Who knows, perhaps one of the street photographers might even snap Fluffy’s picture and write about them on some fashion-forward streetstyle blog. This is all good and well, however, it is not the ultimate reason why some – not all – pet owners have decided to get their pet some sort of identification.
But one of the main reasons for dog tags is to provide dog owners with some measure of peace. They’re at peace when they go on vacation: they know that Fluffy has identification so while they definitely do not want their beloved pet to go lost, they know that they’ll be able to find Fluffy should anything happen.
The origin of dog tags, otherwise known as pet tag IDs, or simply as pet tags, was in the army, when soldiers had to find creative ways to help rescue personnel identify them: they utilised these tags and added their name and surname to it in the hopes that they’d be identified in such a way.
This method proved to work and soldiers from all around the world soon used dog tags to identify themselves. One such soldier, James L. Sutherland, left a dog tag in a forest in Mayenne, which is in France. A George Sorin found the id tag but did nothing with it. His son, Marc, became fascinated with the dog tag that never revealed whether its owner had lived through the war.
Through a series of inquiries, Marc found the people who became James L. Sutherland’s family. The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 972 played a great role in helping Marc find Mr Sutherland’s family, though the sad news was that he had already been dead for 16 years – natural causes at the age of 69. Both families were amazed at what a simple dog tag can achieve: it can unite people, though they do not know each other, from different continents, nearly 70 years later.
This amazing fact is something that all dog owners should take into consideration. The chances that someone would find and return Fluffy to the proper family are so much better when the animal wears something that can identify to which family they should be returned. And this is why investment into any type of pet identification is so important.
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Pet Tags wrote this article about how a single dog tag can unite people from different continents, 70 years later.