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[SJCzar]

No Dar, I can't blame that one on the tent. I set it down along with my favorite pair of gloves while pumping up my tires on the last day of the ride and was so eager to get going that I forgot them both. I checked at the Wheel & Sprocket rest stop and no one had turned them in.

I must say that it wasn't a bad thing because the new one really is much more comfortable then the old one. It also seems like they made the velco strip longer.

[Nanci]

I had a horse get killed running down a road. (She was loaned out, I was a teenager, it was the first horse I bought all by myself, a friend asked to borrow her, I said ok, if she herself rode the horse and let the friend ride her horse, but she didn't, and my horse was green broke, and the friend fell off, no one ever covered the replacement cost, didn't get another horse for quite a while...)

An ankle Road ID would probably fit on a horse's pastern...

My Road ID has name, allergies, organ donor, BF's number, sister (MD's) number, city, health insurance company, blood type (though I am told this doesn't matter, they type, of course, before giving blood) and I am not sure if I put my SS# on it or not.

[Crankin]

I got the wrist ID this spring (Denise convinced me). I do have drug allergies and asthma, so i thought that was important to note. I also have my husband's and son's cell numbers on there, because they are always on. But, I do still carry my wallet (it's very tiny, fits in a jersey pocket) with my insurance card and all of my other stuff, and my cell phone. I've been going on larger group rides this summer and I notice that no one else has one. I have had a few people ask me about it. Some of these people ride with NOTHING that has ID and they have been riding for years. Just stupid....

[MomOnBike]

I'm not too sure about putting the ID on the horses pastern, there's an awful lot of action down there.

An ID on the bridle, though....

[run it, ride it]

I ID the saddle. A loose horse is likely to break or slip out of a bridle.

[crazycanuck]

The road I.D concept is wonderful however i've not seen anything like this down this way..

Snappypix,lighsabre & the other down under chickies...do you have anything like this???

LIghtsabre-i'm sure you'd be able to find something like it in brissie... If you do, let me know.

hmmmm...

c

[Nanci]

When I lived in MN, we put flea collars on all four pasterns all the time to go trail riding, to keep the ticks off. Otherwise, even with spray, which the wet grass would wash off, you could pick (I am not exaggerating) a couple hundred ticks off each leg. And put them on Ticker Tape!! At least the ticks up there are big enough to see- not like Florida micro ticks...We always put those sport boots on them, too- they all had their own set in pretty colors. I miss horses.

[Pascale]

An ID on the saddle is a great idea, if your horse is loose with a saddle on.

Here's a website that sells ID's for horses - they are quite popular in hurricane zones, where evacuation preparation is common.

http://sonshinecomputing.org/id12.html

[DeniseGoldberg]

The road I.D concept is wonderful however i've not seen anything like this down this way..

I wonder if it would be worth an email to RoadID to ask them if they have considered a distributor in other countries. Or if they know of someone with a similar product. Or maybe they can ship to Australia without exhorbitant customs fees (OK, so maybe I'm dreaming).

--- Denise

[DebW]

I'm thinking of getting the bare ID and putting it on my watch band. I already wear a 1 inch wide velcro watch band much like the RoadID band. Maybe RoadID could make a watchband version? I love multi-use items.

[MomOnBike]

For all that I totally understand and love the flea collar on pastern thing - did the pet store think you had a bunch of dogs? a dashchund kennel? I'd still put the ID on my horse's headstall. It's right at the rescuer's eye level, specific to the individual horse (unlike the saddle), somewhat less likely to get lost, and is a logical place for such stuff. How many people would think to look for ID on a pastern? Not me, or anyone I know.

Come to think of it, maybe it's time to check the dogs name tag. There's a lot of action there, too, and this thread has me wondering if the info is still legible on Monty's tag.

Oh, Monnnntyyyy...

(It's OK, but the dog is confused "What was THAT all about?")

[Nanci]

Well, anyone slick enough to catch a horse would surely notice it ws wearing a bracelet!!

When I was a kid, like 10ish, we were up at my great aunt's cabin way up north in MN. We woke up in the morning, and my dad told me there was a horse in the front yard. I went out in my pajamas and "caught" it, but they wouldn't let me keep him! They told me it was from the summer camp down the road, and I had to return it. I had a rope to lead him with, and as soon as I was out of sight of the house, I had that horse weaseled up against a bank at the side of the road, climbing on. The camp was happy to get him back...

[RoadRaven]

The road I.D concept is wonderful however i've not seen anything like this down this way..

Snappypix,lighsabre & the other down under chickies...do you have anything like this???

I have been looking for something since I first saw ROAD ID discussed here
You can buy cheap "junk metal" 'dog tags' here from places like Hallensteins (do you get Hallensteins over the ditch?) but I haven't seen ones the right size - saw perfect ones the other day - two on a chain for $20 ... but one of the tags had 'trendy' holes in it and the other had some kind've red synthetic stuff on one side - rendering them both useless for my purposes.

You can buy silver 'dog tags' from the jewellers - but thats about $60 for one...

And the cheap ones will be more resistant to wear and tear anyways.

I might just have to give up and use ROAD ID - gonna enquire about a discount for my family next week.

[Pascale]

ID'ing the headstall only works when the headstall is on Fine for when you are out riding, of course, but not if the horses get loose out of the pasture (a recurring theme at the facility my horse is boarded at).

[Nanci]

Or when he goes running off and steps on a rein and breaks the whole headstall off- because they always break where the adjustment holes on the sides are.