What do you have written on your dog's tag(s)? (by keedokes)

Lex has 3 Tags. Rabies, Microchip and Personal -

Front -

His name

 
Back -

My cell #

I need daily medication ( He takes daily allergy meds)

My cats all have 1 personal tag with their name and my # and their microchip tag.  

I am in the process of moving and everyone will get new tags once my cell phone gets changed to my new location. I also just enrolled all the pets in 24 hour pet watch, they are all chipped. I just ordered the tags from there too. (Thanks Liesje for  mentioning that website in the microchip thread)

Maggie has:

city license

rabies tag

Delta Society Pet Partners tag

ID tag with her name, my cell #, and city/state since we travel a fair amount

Ziva has:

City license

Rabies tag

ID tag (haven't replaced since her adoption was finalized) with FOSTER DOG CALL IF FOUND, my cell # and city/state

A friend has a nice line on her dogs' tags that I may add when I need to replace tags; it says: "If I am Alone I Am Lost, please call:"

Both of the boys have Boomerang Collar Tags that read:

Dog's Name

Street Address

Phone Number

Needs Medication

I didn't want to put Reward on ours either. I figured someone would be more likely to return them if they thought they needed medication (they dont' take daily meds, so it's a little white lie, but they're worth it! ).

jenn52

 cant get her county license tag without the rabies vaccine, so in essence if she has the license tag, she would have to had the rabies vaccine.

WOW....sometimes the most obvious things go right over my head, LOL. Poor Rory and Primo, LOL I could take a tag off each of them then, LOL!

I know this is a really touchy subject for some, and I really don't want to get into a debate, but..if you had indoor/outdoor cats, would you put that on their tags? Right now the cats don't have tags, and I'm wondering if I did put tags on them, would people be calling all the time saying they found the cat? For some reason tags seem to imply to me that the cat's not supposed to be out...

Chelsea, my indoor cats used to wear reflective collars and tags (I lived on a BUSY street and they were always ripping the screen out of my window) and the tags said "INDOOR ONLY" to indicate that they were NOT roaming outdoor cats.   Luckily, the only times they ever escaped, I found them first.

Also, our leash laws applies to cats, so if someone picked them up and took them to the shelter, the tag was an extra measure for getting them back (they are microchipped). 

Liesje

our leash laws applies to cats

Same here. Just like a dog - a cat must be under complete control of the owner at all times - it is against the law, here at least, to have a cat that lives outside - unless he lives in your fenced back yard, and never leaves.

As do the county license laws - must be registered with the county - and MUST wear their tags - a law a lot of people don't think about. It's on the back of the rabies certificate- check it out!

My cats wear their tags - personal and county. They are stricktly indoor cats - but still - they like to run out the door every now and then, what cat doesn't!

erica1989

Liesje

our leash laws applies to cats

Same here. Just like a dog - a cat must be under complete control of the owner at all times - it is against the law, here at least, to have a cat that lives outside - unless he lives in your fenced back yard, and never leaves.

 

WHAT???? Thats hilarious to me. Why and better yet how successful is this law?

AuroraLove

erica1989

Liesje

our leash laws applies to cats

Same here. Just like a dog - a cat must be under complete control of the owner at all times - it is against the law, here at least, to have a cat that lives outside - unless he lives in your fenced back yard, and never leaves.

 

WHAT???? Thats hilarious to me. Why and better yet how successful is this law?

Cats hurt other animals, hurt themselves, get hit by cars, kill of native animals, and spread diseases.  They are no less of a pet to me than my dogs, and I'd never let my dogs roam at large. 

It's about as successful as the dog leash law....ie, not very successful at all.  But when I find loose animals, I take them in.  Sometimes I see outdoor cats in such poor condition, quite frankly I don't think the owners deserve them back. 

it's not... but you do have to pay a heafty fee if your cat gets picked up by animal control... even more if he's not wearing his tags, or isn't even current on his shots.

Cats are domestic animals - therefore must obey the laws set in place for domestic animals. They are not meant to be running at large - I would never allow my cats to roam free - there are just too many risks out there.

 Chelsea, my animal shelter services Costa Mesa. I would put tags on them for a few reasons.

A.) People will know they're owned and will return them to you and not kill them or trap them b/c they think they're feral.

B.) If they get picked up by AC dead in the street from being HBC or coyotes (yes, they're in CM) and they have ID on at least you'll know what happened.

C.) If they roam farther than normal people will return them to you.

D.) Animal control may cut you a break and return the cat to your home rather than taking them to my shelter where we'll charge you impound fees.

E.)  Cats can be surprisingly difficult to tell apart in the shelter. You'd be surprised how many people are surprised that that brown tabby looks *exaclty* like their brown tabby and insists that it's theirs despite the fact that we know it isn't (given up by other owners, has been at the shelter for a year, etc) Cats also normally don't get all excited in the shelter like dogs do when they see their people. I've seen ONE cat get excited to see his people in the nearly three years I've worked at the shelter.

 
If you *insist* on letting your cats go out, put tags on them PLEASE.

 Maze has her city license which is BRIGHT yellow.. Lol. And her ID tag which on the front has her name in large letters, and on the back has my last name and my cell number.  She normally gets caught by the same people (she likes to go to the petstore by her self.. Lol) so they know my number pretty well..

Neither my city nor my county licenses cats, or requires any vaccines for them.

Kovu (my cat) is in the house 95% of the time, and in my (100% securely fenced) yard 4.99% of the time. He ventures out of the yard once in a blue moon. Probably akin to your cats slipping out once in a while, except I don't worry about mine when he's out (and when he was a "strictly indoor" cat, I DID worry when he slipped out..the entire time he was out.. I'd rather not get ulcers every time I can't find him, lol). One of my Mom's cats (Tiger-Lily) is pretty much the same as Kovu.. Her other cat Lou goes out a lot more, and Taz, who belongs to my aunt, is basically an outdoor cat. I don't have control over them and whether they go outside or not. That's why I'm trying to figure out about tags...

Although now that I think about it, if I put "indoor/outdoor" on their tags, and they got picked up by AC, I'm guessing we'd have a heck of a time convincing them that they just "slipped out". LOL. <-- That's a joke. Everyone go ahead and unbunch your panties...

malnmutt

Chelsea, my animal shelter services Costa Mesa.

Wow, what shelter? I didn't know anyone else on here still lived in Orange County.

malnmutt

Cats can be surprisingly difficult to tell apart in the shelter.

That's a really interesting point. My cat is easy peasy to tell from any other cat in the world because he's got a funky eye on top of his pretty unique look, and my Mom's cat Tiger-Lily has a short bent tail, but Louie and Taz look like a million other cats. Lou would, I'm almost positive, respond to someone he knew. He nearly ALWAYS responds to his name with a meow. But Taz..yeah. If there was another long-haired black and white cat, we'd have a hard time telling which was Taz.

I'll definitely put a tag on Kovu, but I don't know if I'll be able to on the other three, seeing as how they're not mine.

 I actually don't think it's illegal to have outdoor cats in Orange County. It should be, but it's not. I cannot tell you how many mangled cat corpses we get in. I hate having to dig through the freezer and pull out a dead cat with its guts hanging out and make it presentable so that people can ID it. It's gross and kind of horrifying.

 Just put a tag on them. Your cat will come into the shelter, you'll pay the impound fee, we'll lecture you about the importance of keeping your cat indoors and you'll take your cat home and let it out again, but there is no extra fine for letting your cat outside--except for lectures and repeat offender fines.