Thanks everyone for listening to my babbling after this morning. I am not finally calmed down and taking a deep breath. The very worst part was they were ALL gone and then getting one back at a time. I just kept thinking OK I have Pebbles but now where the other two. When I had Doodlebug and Pebbles I felt absolutely panicked because I was felt like my LUCK had run out and I would never find Bogey.
As for the best type of collar I really don't have an answer which would be the safest for choking, catching on something or being injured. In the past I was totally opposed to regular dog collars and used breakaway CAT collars on them but Doodlebug got his mouth caught because it was elastic and stretched. By no means did anything as horrible as what happened with LOU but he did have an "incident" with the cat collar. They now all have Coach collars and ENGRAVED tags. Their last tags were only PRINTED and one day I noticed that my phone number had rubbed off.......so what is the point of a tag that the letters comes off
So I bought tags from Etsy.com there are copper and hand engraved. That is what they had on today-Coach collars and Etsy engraved tags. My three are also BIG so a Coach collar would be huge on a little 5 lb pup. Everyone has an opinion about collars but I can't imagine what would have happened if they didn't have them on today.