CAPITAL HUMANE SOCIETY
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Your Cat Needs An ID Tag!
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Denver Dumb Friends League and Humane Society of the
Animal
shelters throughout the country take in millions of lost cats each year and 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. 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 that 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.