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| About the Dog-E-Data Team... Brian & Kaye |
 HOW
IT ALL STARTED: In the late 1990's while working in Spain, husband and wife television producers Brian Pickering and Kaye Browne adopted a small cross Portuguese Water Dog cross Poodle cross, crossed with a whole lot of love. They named him 'Picasso' after the famous Spanish painter and because his colours were very flamboyant. That's him on the right. Picasso never went anywhere without Brian & Kaye - why would he with so much love? While drying off after his bath one day, Picasso followed a group of Gypsies along a beach which had a tunnel that went under a major highway. The highway was divided on top by one of those cement barriers so the tunnel was the only way back. Two days later - after much anguish, they found Picasso's body on the wrong side of the highway - he had been hit by a car while trying to get back home. "Naturally we were both devastated because we had already started making plans to bring him home to Australia." Brian says. "Because he was being washed, he had no collar or tag on - more devastating though was the fact we had no readily available photo of him to put up around the area to alert locals he was 'our' dog." a tearful Kaye says."We had forgotten about the one seen here (above) and so decided very soon after this horrible episode, that a Photo ID was a MUST for all dogs and so the idea for Dog-E-Data was born." EARLY IDENTIFICATION SAVES DOG'S LIVES Microchipping is a very good idea (it's also law in some states) - but who walks around with a scanner? And who will scan your dog late Friday night - or any night for that matter! Of course a tag with phone numbers that can be contacted 24/7 is even better, but a PHOTO ID is a must - and that's how Dog-E-Data started - in January 2000.  Brian
& Kaye now have four dogs - Cosmo, Kismet, Monet
& Matisse the baby Bichon... and you can see
they still haven't forgotten Picasso with some of those
Spanish sounding names and the reason they started
Dog-E-Data... "cos we love dogs" ...!!A MESSAGE FROM BRIAN & KAYE Please make sure your dog ALWAYS wears a collar with a tag that has a current phone number that is always answered. So many people say - 'oh I only put it on when he goes out'... do you only insure your car just before a crash, or insure your house just before a fire?? Why not 'insure' your dog against the un-thinkable and 'ensure' that he or she has a fast, immediate way of contacting you and that you have everything in place - including a photo ID, in case the un-thinkable happens. Read more about the service we offer and remember - Our dog never went anywhere without us either! - Take care, Brian & Kaye |