Does any one have suggestions where to purchase tattoo equipment for my dogs? Thanks

Leerburg sells dog tattoo equipment:
http://leerburg.com/hauptner.htm

Unless you're planning on tattooing a lot of dogs it might be cheaper to pay someone else to do it, though.

Thanks so much.

Ok now another question, I have never tattooed my dogs before, so this is new to me, I have a few AKC dogs that are older and I do not breed them, they are strictly pets, however due to the AKC regulations I have to tattoo or microchip all my dogs and so looking at the cost to microchip or tattoo at the vet or buy the equipment, it makes sence to buy the equipment. Which set would you recommend to purchase first, so I can get them compliant with the AKC regulations? Can someone give me some examples of what they use to tattoo. I'd appreciate any suggestions before I order. As I am going to be training my new GSD puppy for competition, is there any certain guidelines with them for the tattoo? Thanks

Well that depends on if you're just going to be using your own records to identify these dogs or an established registry. AKC doesn't care from what I can tell so long as the dog is permanently identified. I personally if I did tattoos would use the same system I used with rabbits which was left ear and looked kinda like this.

IC4D2A

Basically for me I ment the kennel name meaning this was a dog I bred, C was the sire name followed by a litter number for that sire, D the dam name followed by her litter number and a letter at the end describing the dog's position within the litter.

Another option is IF0123

This is simply kennel name followed by a number which you put on the AKC data. This also is easy and should work for what you want.

Another option is FLUFFY

You can use the dog's call name.

Clamp and pin style tattooing isn't difficult but it does have a little bit of a learning curve to do it right. I personally like black ink compared to green (i've never had a green ink really do a good job over the long haul) and used a stone tattoo set on a variety of animals. Rabbits and goats are a great practice animal if you know anyone who raises them. I used to tat about 30-50 animals at a time and you get a good system that way of how it works, how much pressure is really needed, which inks really hold, etc. My only piece of advice is to do a practice punch on paper or leather before you do the permanent punch on any animal. You would be surprised to see how many tats are messed up because of backwards letters.

Thanks, that's a great help.

Got a chip which also take the dogs temperature.. cool or what. chip details on one of the national(UK) databases so whoever can id the dog.
Disadvantages is finding the silly little thing, or paying the money for your own scanner. if you doing compitition then i think you are obliged to provide your own scanner.
If i could go back i think i would have had the dog tattoed (with a love heart and my name...).

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I personally if I did tattoos would use the same system I used with rabbits which was left ear and looked kinda like this.

I may be wrong (and I know the OP mentioned competitive OB work) but the traditional ear for a tattoo in a working dog's, is the right ear… Just something to keep in mind…

My dogs have all had four numbers (Quinn has 0388, Rox has 2685) with the exception of one, and it was B993 stood for the B litter born in 1999 and the third pup born. Just a few more ideas.

Thanks Jessica. In most livestock that I've worked with it's left ear identification and right ear registration. I've never tattooed dogs before.

I imagine for AKC purposes it'd just have to be somewhere where you can say the dog is marked. If I had a choice on tattooing dogs I'd do an electric hand tattoo on the inner back leg sorta like how they tattoo cats. I'd need the dog sedated for this but I find those tattoos to be some of the best for long term lasting and readability.