A pet ID tag is its own category, separate from a personalized pendant or a decorative keychain. Its whole job is getting a lost dog or cat home, so legibility, size, and how it holds up on a real collar matter more than anything else — even though, as the designs below show, it can still look good doing that job. Makers building their own tag from a pet's photo can start with Atomm's Laser Prep tool, which converts an image into an engraving-ready file.
Below are 50 real, downloadable designs from the Atomm community built around functional pet ID tags — dog and cat collar tags, color-engraved portraits, keychain- and pendant-style tags, and the jigs makers use to cut them in batches — organized by category so you can find the type of tag you actually need.
Key Takeaways
- A bone or paw-print outline reads as "pet tag" before anyone gets close enough to read the name on it.
- Cat tags run smaller and lighter than dog tags so they don't drag on a collar.
- Color engraving turns a flat metal or stainless-steel blank into a full portrait or pattern instead of just text.
- A jig turns a one-off tag into a repeatable batch, which matters the moment you're making more than a couple.
Dog & Cat ID Tags
The largest category here: straightforward, functional tags built for a real collar, engraved with a name, a phone number, or both — see Atomm's full pet tag engraving ideas collection for more starting points.
1. Tiger Pattern Pet Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
This tiger-stripe pattern tag is the single most-viewed design in this entire collection, with over 30,000 views, proof that a bold surface pattern can outperform a plain name-and-number layout. Unlike the plainer bone and circle tags elsewhere in this list, it treats the whole tag face as a canvas rather than just a label.
2. Sales Display for Dog Tags
- Type: Pet Tag
This one isn't a tag itself but a laser-cut display stand for showing off finished dog tags at a market or craft fair, a companion piece to the tags that make up the rest of this list. It's the only merchandising-focused design here, useful for anyone planning to sell tags rather than just make them for their own pet.
3. Christmas Color-Engraved Pet Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
A holiday-themed color-engraved tag gives the same collar-tag format a seasonal twist rather than a permanent everyday look. It sits between the plain functional tags above and the full color-engraving category below, showing how easily a color-fill technique adapts to a one-off seasonal batch.
4. Silicone Pet Tags
- Type: Pet Tag
A soft, flexible silicone tag rather than a rigid metal or wood blank, quieter on a collar and less likely to scratch furniture or floors. It's one of two silicone designs in this list, set apart from the acrylic and stainless-steel tags nearby by its rubber-like give.
5. How to Engrave a Simple Dog Tag with S1
- Type: Pet Tag
A tutorial-style project walking through engraving a basic dog tag on the xTool S1, useful as a starting template for anyone new to functional pet tags rather than a finished one-off design. Its straightforward layout makes it a good first project before attempting the more elaborate color-engraved or portrait tags further down this list.
6. Cat Collar Set
- Type: Pet Tag
A complete collar-and-tag set designed specifically for cats, not just a tag on its own, showing the demand for pet ID tags extends well beyond dogs. Unlike the single-tag designs around it, this one pairs the tag with the collar itself as one finished product.
7. Acrylic Pet Tags
- Type: Pet Tag
- Material: Acrylic
These tags use cut acrylic rather than metal or wood, giving them a lightweight, colorful finish that's easy to cut on a lower-powered laser. Acrylic is a distinct material choice from the stainless-steel and wooden tags elsewhere in this list, trading long-term durability for low material cost and fast prototyping.
8. Customizable Pet Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
A template-style tag built to be relabeled for any pet's name and number rather than a one-off custom piece, making it a practical base file for makers taking repeat orders. It's positioned as a starting point, distinct from the fully custom, single-pet designs like the one right after it.
9. Custom Pet Tag with Staffy Image and Phone Number
- Type: Pet Tag
A one-off tag combining a breed-specific image of a Staffordshire terrier with a printed phone number, built for one particular dog rather than a reusable template. It shows how a photo or breed illustration can share space with the essential safety information on a functional tag.
10. Dog Tag for Discerning Owners
- Type: Pet Tag
A tag aimed at a slightly more upscale, design-conscious pet owner, judging by its name, rather than a purely utilitarian design. It's a reminder that even a strictly functional category like pet ID tags leaves room for branding and personality in the design language.
11. Four Customizable Cat Collar Tags
- Type: Pet Tag
Four different cat tag shapes bundled into one file, each easy to relabel with a different cat's name, efficient for anyone making tags for more than one pet or selling to owners with multiple cats. It complements the single Cat Collar Set above by offering shape variety instead of one fixed design.
12. Metal Medal for Cat Collar
- Type: Pet Tag
- Material: Metal
A medal-shaped metal tag built for a cat's collar, using a rounder, more decorative silhouette than the bone and circle shapes common elsewhere in this list. Cut from metal rather than acrylic or silicone, it's built to hold up to the daily outdoor wear a cat's collar tag needs to survive.
13. Silicone Pet Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
A second silicone tag, distinct from the multi-tag Silicone Pet Tags set earlier in this list, this one a single standalone piece. Like its silicone counterpart, it prioritizes a soft, quiet finish over the rigidity of a metal or wood tag.
More Dog & Cat ID Tags
More of the same functional category, continued — different shapes, materials, and personalization approaches for dogs and cats.
14. Stainless Steel Pet Tags
- Type: Pet Tag
- Material: Stainless Steel
A set of tags cut from stainless steel, the same material favored for the color-engraved portrait tags later in this list, but left with plain engraved text here rather than a full color fill. Stainless steel is the most weather- and scratch-resistant option among the materials used across this collection.
15. Dog Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
A simply named, straightforward dog tag without a special theme or material callout, useful as a plain baseline next to the more decorated or personalized tags elsewhere on this list. Its generic approach makes it easy to adapt to a different name or shape without redesigning from scratch.
16. Custom Pet Tag with Phone Number
- Type: Pet Tag
Another phone-number-forward design, prioritizing the single piece of information most likely to reunite a lost pet with its owner over any decorative element. It sits alongside the Staffy tag above as one of several designs in this list that put a phone number front and center rather than just a name.
17. F2 Ultra: Tiger Pattern Pet Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
A version of the tiger-pattern design from the top of this list, re-optimized for the xTool F2 Ultra laser, giving makers a machine-specific settings reference rather than a brand-new pattern. Having both versions in this collection shows how the same popular design gets adapted as new laser models come out.
18. Luna Dog Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
A one-off tag made for a dog named Luna, a straightforward example of the single-pet custom order that makes up much of this category. It's a plain, no-frills counterpart to the more elaborately patterned or color-engraved tags found elsewhere in this list.
19. Custom Engraved Wooden Pet Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
- Material: Wood
A tag cut from wood rather than metal or acrylic, giving it a warmer look at the cost of some durability outdoors unless it's sealed. Wood is the least weather-resistant material used in this list, making this design better suited to an indoor pet or a low-cost prototype than to a dog that's outside daily.
20. Custom Laser Cut Cat Shaped Pet Tag with Bella Name and Paw
- Type: Pet Tag
A cat-silhouette-shaped tag rather than a generic circle or bone, immediately signaling it belongs to a cat before anyone reads the name Bella engraved on it. That shape-first approach sets it apart from the more common bone-shaped dog tags found throughout this list.
21. Black Bone-Shaped Dog Tag with 'Dog' Text
- Type: Pet Tag
A bone-shaped tag finished in black rather than the natural metal tone most tags in this list use, giving it a more understated look. The bone shape itself does double duty as decoration and as an instant visual cue that this is a dog's tag.
22. Custom Cat Tag
- Type: Pet Tag
A custom tag built specifically for a cat, continuing this list's recurring theme that cat owners want tags sized and shaped differently from a dog's. It's a plainer, unshaped counterpart to the cat-silhouette and paw-print designs found elsewhere in this collection.
23. Laser Cut Personalized Cat Name Pet Tag "Chloe"
- Type: Pet Tag
A personalized tag cut and engraved with the name Chloe, another single-cat custom order alongside Bella and the Custom Cat Tag above. Together, these name-specific designs show how quickly a base template can be adapted into a one-off order for a particular pet.
24. Stainless Steel Dog Identification Medal
- Type: Pet Tag
A stainless-steel identification medal for a dog's collar, built with the same durability focus as the Stainless Steel Pet Tags set earlier in this list but shaped and labeled as a medal rather than a plain tag. It's a reminder that "ID tag" and "medal" are largely the same functional object wearing a different name.
25. Engraved Blue Dog Tag with Name and Mountain Design
- Type: Pet Tag
A blue-finished tag pairing a dog's name with a mountain illustration, giving it a distinct outdoor or adventure theme compared to the plainer text-only tags nearby. The added illustration shows how a functional tag can still carry a bit of the owner's personality or interests.
26. Laser Engraved Red Pet Name Tag, "Hello My Name Is"
- Type: Pet Tag
A red tag styled after a name-badge format, with "Hello, my name is" framing rather than a traditional bone or circle shape. That badge-style layout makes it one of the more visually distinct designs in this list, next to the many bone- and circle-shaped tags surrounding it.
Color-Engraved & Portrait Tags
Tags that go beyond text, using color-fill laser engraving to put a full-color portrait, pattern, or illustration onto a metal or stainless-steel blank.
27. Amstaff Color Engraving
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
A full-color engraved portrait of an American Staffordshire Terrier, one of the most-viewed designs in this entire collection at over 12,000 views. It demonstrates color-fill engraving at its most detailed, going well beyond the simple text-and-shape tags found in the functional categories above.
28. Guide to Holographic Engraving on Mirror-Polished Stainless Steel
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
- Material: Stainless Steel
This is a technique guide rather than a single finished design, covering how to get a holographic color effect on mirror-polished stainless steel. It's the most instructional entry in this category, useful for makers who want to understand the process behind the portrait-style tags surrounding it rather than just copy one file.
29. F2 Color Engraving
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
A color engraving project built around xTool's F2 laser settings, giving makers a device-specific reference point the way the F2 Ultra tiger tag does in the functional category above. It's a settings-and-process entry more than a single fixed subject, useful as a jumping-off point for a maker's own color-engraved design.
30. Laser Engraved Heart-Shaped Pet ID Tags with Blue Paw Design
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
A heart-shaped tag with a blue paw print accent, over 3,300 views for a design that keeps the shape simple while letting the color engraving do the decorative work. It's a reminder that a classic shape paired with color engraving often outperforms something more elaborate.
31. Colorful Geometric Sea Turtle on a Metal Dog Tag
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
- Material: Metal
A geometric, low-poly-style sea turtle illustration color-engraved onto a metal dog tag, using a color-fill process for a graphic look rather than a realistic portrait. It stands apart from the animal-portrait tags nearby by using an abstract, stylized illustration instead of a lifelike image.
32. Custom Engraved Metal Camping Dog Tag with Tent Design
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
- Material: Metal
A tag built around a camping tent illustration rather than a pet portrait, giving it an outdoor-lifestyle theme similar to the mountain-design tag in the functional category above. It shows that color engraving on a pet tag doesn't have to depict the pet at all — it can just as easily reflect the owner's interests.
33. Cute German Shepherd Engraving in Color
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
A color-engraved portrait of a German Shepherd, one of several breed-specific portrait tags in this category alongside the Amstaff engraving above. Its cartoon-leaning, "cute" style sets it apart from the more realistic or geometric portraits elsewhere in this list.
34. Color-Engraved Wolf Head Tag
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
A wolf's head rendered in full color engraving, trading a domestic-pet subject for a wilder, more graphic illustration than the breed portraits nearby. It's aimed more at a striking visual statement than at identifying a specific pet, closer in spirit to the sea turtle and tent designs than to a name-and-number tag.
35. Free Custom Pet Portrait Tags
- Type: Ornament
A free, ready-to-cut template for custom dog and cat portrait tags, aimed at makers who want to engrave a pet's actual likeness rather than a generic silhouette. It fills the same portrait-tag niche as the color-engraved designs elsewhere in this category, without requiring color engraving capability.
36. Laser Engraved Stainless Steel Whale Pendant
- Type: Color-Engraved Tag
- Material: Stainless Steel
A whale illustration color-engraved onto stainless steel, styled and mounted more like a pendant than a flat collar tag despite sharing the same color-engraving technique as the rest of this category. It's a good example of how the same process crosses over freely between pet tags and general jewelry-style pieces.
Keychain & Pendant Tags
Tags built with keychain hardware or pendant-style mounting rather than a plain collar-ring hole, useful for a spare tag on a leash or bag, or as a memorial keepsake.
37. Laser Engraved Dog Portrait Stainless Steel Pet Tag
- Type: Pendant
- Material: Stainless Steel
A dog portrait engraved onto stainless steel and finished as a pendant rather than a flat collar tag, the most-viewed design in this category at over 3,100 views. Its pendant mounting sets it apart from the collar-hole tags in the functional categories above, better suited to a keepsake than to everyday collar wear.
38. Laser Engraved Dog Bone Pet Tag with Skateboard and Paw Design
- Type: Keychain
A bone-shaped tag combining a skateboard graphic with a paw print, built with keychain hardware rather than a simple collar ring. The skateboard motif gives it a more playful, hobby-specific theme than the plainer bone tags found in the functional categories.
39. Personalized Paw-Shaped Pet Tag with NFC, "Tulo"
- Type: Keychain
A paw-shaped keychain tag for a pet named Tulo that embeds an NFC chip, the only tag in this entire list that updates its linked information without any re-engraving. That makes it the most tech-forward design here, distinct from every purely engraved tag around it.
40. Laser Engraved Stainless Steel Dog Bone Pet ID Tag with Name "Jura"
- Type: Keychain
- Material: Stainless Steel
A bone-shaped stainless-steel tag personalized with the name Jura, mounted with keychain hardware rather than a plain collar hole. It shares its bone shape and steel material with several tags in the functional categories above but is built to attach to a leash, bag, or keyring instead of a collar.
41. Pet Tag Keychain
- Type: Keychain
A straightforward keychain-mounted pet tag without a special theme, serving as a plain baseline for this category the way "Dog Tag" does for the functional tags earlier in this list. It's a reminder that not every popular design needs an elaborate name or concept to earn views.
42. Cat Engraving on a Pendant Medallion
- Type: Pendant
A cat illustration engraved onto a pendant-style medallion, the second pendant-mounted design in this category alongside the dog portrait pendant above. Its rounder, medallion shape distinguishes it from the flatter keychain tags nearby, leaning more toward a keepsake than an everyday collar accessory.
The Jigs That Make Batches Possible
If you're making more than one or two tags, a jig — a holding fixture that locks a blank in the exact same spot every time — turns a one-off project into a repeatable product line. Browse more laser jig templates for other repeatable projects.
43. F1 Ultra Jig for Dog Tag (29x50mm)
- Type: Jig
A holding jig sized to one of the most common dog tag blanks, with 286 favorites showing how much this community values consistent, repeatable placement. It's built specifically for the F1 Ultra, pairing with the bone-shaped jig below to cover two of the most popular tag blank sizes.
44. F1 Ultra Jig for Bone Dog Tag (60x38mm)
- Type: Jig
The bone-shaped counterpart to the rectangular jig above, with 292 favorites, sized specifically for bone-shaped blanks rather than a plain oval one. Between the two, they cover the two most popular tag blank shapes referenced throughout the functional tag categories in this list.
45. Laser-Cut Dog Tag Jig for S1
- Type: Jig
A jig built for the xTool S1 rather than the F1 Ultra, giving makers on a different machine the same repeatable-placement advantage. It rounds out this category by covering a second popular laser platform alongside the F1 Ultra jigs above.
46. Military Dog Tag Jig
- Type: Jig
A jig shaped for the classic military-style dog tag blank, distinct from the bone- and rectangle-shaped jigs above, with 116 favorites showing steady demand for this specific format. It's the jig to reach for if a maker wants the traditional stamped-metal military tag look rather than a more decorative pet tag shape.
Memorial Frames, Ornaments & Signs
Pet-tag-adjacent designs that borrow the same shapes and materials for keepsakes, home decor, and safety signage rather than a tag worn on a collar — explore more pet memorial frame ideas if you're building a keepsake rather than a collar tag.
47. "MISSY" Pet Memorial Frame
- Type: Picture Frame
A memorial frame built to hold a pet's name tag, ashes, fur, collar, and photo or paw print all in one place, a keepsake rather than a tag worn on a collar. It's the most multi-purpose memorial design in this list, combining several mementos other designs handle separately.
48. Bone-Shaped Dog Photo Frame
- Type: Picture Frame
A photo frame cut into a bone shape, borrowing the same silhouette used throughout the functional dog tag categories but applied to a keepsake frame instead of a wearable tag. It's a simpler, single-purpose counterpart to the more elaborate memorial frame above.
49. Pet Emergency Door Sign
- Type: Door Sign
A door or window sign alerting emergency responders that pets are inside, a safety-focused design that serves the same underlying goal as a collar ID tag — helping a pet get found or accounted for — without being worn by the pet at all. It's the only sign-format design in this list, distinct from every wearable tag and keepsake around it.
50. Merry Christmas Dog Tag Bauble
- Type: Ornament
A dog-tag-shaped ornament for a Christmas tree rather than a collar, turning the familiar bone or tag silhouette into a seasonal decoration. It closes out this list the way the Christmas-themed color-engraved tag opened the functional category — proof that the pet tag shape has a life beyond the collar too.
Final Thoughts
Fifty real designs across functional tags, color engraving, keychains and pendants, batch jigs, and memorial pieces show there's already a proven starting point for whatever pet tag you're trying to make. Pick the one closest to your pet and material, then customize the name, shape, or color from there. For more ideas beyond tags, check out Atomm's broader pet gift tag.
Frequently Asked Questions about Pet ID Tags
What information should go on a pet ID tag?
At minimum, the pet's name and an owner's phone number. Many designs add a second line for a city or "reward if found" message, but legibility always comes before decoration — keep the text large and high-contrast.
What's the best material for a pet ID tag?
Stainless steel and anodized aluminum hold up best to daily wear and weather. Wood works well for indoor pets or as a lower-cost option, as long as it's sealed against moisture.
Do I need a jig to make pet tags?
Not for a single tag, but a jig makes a real difference once you're producing more than a handful — it holds each blank in the same spot so the engraving lines up consistently every time.
What's different about a cat tag versus a dog tag?
Mostly size and weight — cat tags are typically smaller and lighter so they don't weigh down a cat's collar, and shapes like the cat-face silhouette above signal the pet type at a glance.
Can I make a pet ID tag design from a pet's photo?
Yes — Atomm's Laser Prep tool converts a photo into an engraving-ready file adapted to your material, useful for portrait-style tags.
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