Pink Fox: its Raining...IN MY HOUSE! :/

[abifae]

With axe.

 

[Denim Deb]

Oh yeah, w/the axe! Too bad she's lost the pig's heads. I'm sure they'd go over real well!

 

[pinkfox]

shes doing great this morning, playing with the babies, eating like a pig, plotting my demise because i wont let her out LOL.

took a quick look at the insicion and the vet did a very good job, i dont know how he managed to spay through such a tiny hole but the insicion itself is not even 1/2 an inch. all stiches are internal and her glued the external insicion so i dont have to worry about the kittens or her popping any stitches...
this s great because shell heal very quickly, bad because if such a thing shoudl happen again theyll likley end up cutting her open before realizing shes spayed since they didnt tat her or anything...

in other news i spent last night making tags for the critters...

ive been looking for some realy unique, fun pet tags that i can put information on BOTH sides, i like having the dogs name on the front and then my contact info on the back, and since im hoping to move in the next few months i didnt want to spend $25 on a tag for double side engraving when that info is going to change soon (with any luck)
i also wanted something realy funky cool, not just some peice of colored metal.
and i wanted something veyr light weight so i could put one on tempi without her being too bothered by it...

so instead i decided to make my own!

and this is what i came up with

i love traditional tattoo art, and the bright bold colors realy lend itself to shrink art...
im realy pleased with how thye came out, each took about an hour to make because i hand drew all the art, then colored and hand cut each one.

its shrinky dink plastic, so they shrunk to 1/3 the origional size (making a 3x3" peice the perfect size for a cat or small dog tag ) are bright and bold, my contact info is on the back which given the situation i got to put my cellphone (which will stay the same if i move) and my email, which stays the same no matter what.
they are nice and light too.
they have to be sealed with a clear coating to protect them from scratching/fading.

even charlie got one and because its origionaly on larger stock and shrunk down its easy to get alot more information on the back

im wondering if there might be a little nich market for these tags...
thinking $10-$15 per tag (depending on size and artwork) simpler shapes and artwork and the "cat size" would be in the $10 range, while i could make bigger ones and more intricate shaped tags in the $12-$15 range.

thoughts?


side note, willow is the little tortie kitten i origioanlly named Cinder...
i had a dream the other night thats kept nagging at me since...in it she walked up to me, slapped me and told me her name was willow...
so thats her name...LOL, message seemed simple enough to understand.

 

[valmom]

Those tags are very nice! Very different, I wouldn't be suprised if there wasn't a market for them I am glad the infuriating beast is home- the shelter sounds like a really unhelpful bunch Good luck keeping her inside- do you have a nice open window she can sit in and watch the outside? Or, if she is a mouser and that's her job, it would be sort of counterproductive to take her out of action!

 

[Denim Deb]

Yes, there is a market for them! I was looking at them and thinking I'd like to have that kind of a tag when I get my dog. They are so much nicer than the ones you can buy.

And, don't limit them to just dogs and cats. I know people w/horses that put all their contact info on a little tag on the horse's halter, especially if there's a hurricane coming. While I don't advocate leaving a halter on a horse, in those types of situations, I do. (As long as it's either a break away, or leather halter.) Then, if the horse gets loose, they know who it belongs to.

 

[pinkfox]

she is a mouser unfortuntly lol...well only unfortunatly because keeping her indoors while she heals up is going to drive her to drive me batty LOL.

she seems fairly content during the day but come sun down she wants out *grumbles*

we did have a good snuggle time last night though, you could tell she was happy to be home safe we had a good headbutt purry snuggle time session before bed

 

[Shiloh Acres]

So glad she's home and doing well. You'll both make it through the enforced inside-time.

And I LOVE the idea of those tags! Very nice!

 

[AL]

Yes, there is a market for them! I was looking at them and thinking I'd like to have that kind of a tag when I get my dog. They are so much nicer than the ones you can buy.

And, don't limit them to just dogs and cats. I know people w/horses that put all their contact info on a little tag on the horse's halter, especially if there's a hurricane coming. While I don't advocate leaving a halter on a horse, in those types of situations, I do. (As long as it's either a break away, or leather halter.) Then, if the horse gets loose, they know who it belongs to.

hehehe when we have hurricanes I use a big fat marker to write my phone number on the horses sides (they were both flea bitten grey at the time, now I have a sorrel so that may be interesting).

Love those tags!!

 

[dragonlaurel]

Those tags are great! Try Etsy or some craft fairs with some of them.

 

[pinkfox]

what a great idea deb, i never even thought about horses...

i am going to make one to go on jcak jacks travel crate with "I BITE" in big letters since people insist on putting thier fingers in his cage when i have to take him to the vet and he is capable of dogn a great deal of damage.

i think they could also be great tags for travel crates and i could probbaly make matching human luggage tags too...



oooo even kids! you too can tak your kids, lol, mabe backpacks and things for summer camp type stuff...hmmm...sooo many ideas!

just need to come up with more good stock designs so people can pick one or if they have something in mind of their own i can do that too

jack jacks is going to be a shark! lol.