Engraved tags for the breed that has never met a stranger, a pond, or a pool noodle it didn't want to bring home. Your golden is wet, shedding and delighted about it, so its tag should be too.
A golden doesn't go swimming so much as refuse to leave. Pool, lake, canal, the sprinkler, the dog bowl with one paw in it. Add humid summers and a tag spends most of its life damp.
That's why we laser engrave instead of printing. The words are cut into the metal, so there's no ink to fade, chip or peel off after the four hundredth dip.
Your dog will come out of the water smelling like a swamp. The tag will still be readable.
Golden retrievers come with a built-in scarf. Between the neck fluff and the year-round shedding, a small tag disappears into the fur like a sock in a dryer. Go bigger than you think.
Small 1 inch
$12
Golden puppies only, and only until the collar changes. On an adult it vanishes into the ruff.
Medium 1.5 inch
$14
Works on a lighter collar or a younger dog, but the fluff will still swallow part of it.
Large 2 inch
$16
Hangs below the ruff where a stranger can actually read it. Full saying on the front, full number on the back.
Short answer: adult golden, standard collar, go Large.
Add $4 for stainless or brass, $6 for polished. Shapes available at the size you pick are shown in the builder, and the preview is exactly what we engrave.
Goldens are terrible guard dogs, professional shoe thieves and firm believers that every human is their new best friend. The jokes write themselves. Name and number go on the back, which matters for a dog that will follow anyone holding a tennis ball.
Will bring you a shoe.
Not your shoe.
Sheds year-round.
You're wearing me now.
Guard dog.
Will show burglars
where the snacks are.
Saw a lake.
Went in the lake.
Sorry about the car.
Retriever.
Not a returner.
Tennis ball
enthusiast.
Bring a spare.
Golden boy.
Mud-colored today.
If found, I already
love you.
Call my mom anyway.
Every line above fits the tag as written. Want your own? Type it in the builder and the preview shows what fits before you pay.
We're a family in Lehi, Utah with seven English bulldogs and one very busy laser. We wrote the bulldog tags first, from experience. The golden jokes come from friends, neighbors and every golden that has ever stolen our dogs' toys at the park.
Questions humans ask
Still stuck? [email protected]. A human answers. The dogs supervise.
Large (2 inch) for most adults. Golden neck fur hides small tags, and a bigger tag hangs below the fluff where people can read it. The builder preview shows exactly what fits before you order.
No. The words are laser engraved into the metal, not printed on top, so there's nothing for chlorine, salt water or the retention pond to wash off.
Yes, that's the standard build. The funny saying goes on the front, and your dog's name plus your phone number are engraved on the back. A third back line is optional.
Nine of them on this page, about the shedding, the swimming, the shoe theft and the total lack of guard-dog instinct. Every one fits the tag as written, and the full sayings list has hundreds more.
Custom tags aren't returnable, but if we mis-engrave it, we remake it free. Send a photo and we re-cut it. Tags ship USPS from Lehi, Utah in 3 to 5 days.