A very fine scab (barely visible) will form over the tattoo numbers. It will fall off in 24-48 hours. It is not unusual for some redness to appear around the newly-formed tattoo numbers. This tattoo will be put into a database and is usually up and running across the nation in 24-48 hours. The dog now processes it’s own nine-digit sequence, and it’s number will never be used by another person. The Social Security Administration is prohibited by law from divulging any information to anyone about anyone, for any reason.
Thanks to SEF for helping correct an error on the AKC policy and to Halspal for catching typos and grammatical errors.
http://www.org/registraton/poicies/index.cfm?page=8
http://home.earthlink.net/~pawsreflect/tattoo.html
www.akc.org/insideAKC/policymanual.cfm?page=7