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YOUR
CAT NEEDS A TAG!
Animal
shelters throughout the country take in millions of lost cats each year.
99 out of 100 of these cats have no identification. Less than three
out of 100 lost cats are reclaimed by their owners, and usually one
of those three has an identification tag. The owners of the other two
cats end up spending hours, days and even weeks looking for their lost
cats and personally visiting every animal shelter in their area. Most
owners of lost cats search long and hard, and never find their cats
at all.
Don't risk
losing your feline friend forever. Please put a collar on your cat and
an identification tag with your name, address and phone number. Many
people are now putting only their name, home phone number and cell phone
number. Be sure to keep the information current. You'll want to tag
your cat even if you never let it go outside because there is always
the chance that it could slip through an open door or window and become
lost.
There are
collars made especially for cats with a short piece of elastic sewn
in. These "break-away" collars can be buckled snugly around
the cat's neck, but will stretch and let the cat escape if it should
get hung up on a tree limb or fence. It's important to remember many
more cats have died because they were lost and their owners couldn't
find them than have ever been injured from wearing a collar.
The first
time you put a collar on your cat, give it a catnip-filled toy. The
toy will distract the cat's attention from the odd feeling of wearing
a collar and by the time it finishes shredding the toy, it may have
forgotten the collar entirely.
Reprinted
with permission from the Denver Dumb Friends League.
