What affects us affects cats
The story of Andy Whittley’s cat Wilma is sadly educational and a reminder that not all local authorities (councils) discharge their responsibilities properly or so it appears. Wilma was micrchipped and she had a collar with an identity tag. Wilma went missing and, unknown to Andy, Wilma (who suffered from fits) had been fatally …
A civil compensation case concerning a lost purebred dog, Bibi, going through the Arkansas courts has resulted in a judgement by the state’s Court of Appeals that a lost pet can be picked up by animal control and adopted out without notification to the owner even if the animal can be fully identified through …
What do you consider to be the most important information on your cat’s ID tag? How is the information laid out? What do you leave off? Some cats do not accept a tag on a collar and therefore you can put the tag on a harness. Sandy (a regular visitor to this site) writes …
I have always noticed that the figures for reuniting cat owner with lost cat are much lower than those for dogs. A study in 2011 found that only between 2% and 5% of cats in shelters are reunited with their owners. This should not surprise people because a substantial proportion of cats at shelters …
Eighty percent of pet owners believe that it is important for cats and dogs to wear personal identification tags but a much smaller proportion actually do what they think is important. We identify the collar and to tag as something that dogs wear. And we believe that the best way to identify a cat …
