Pet Tips

 

LOST PET TIPS:

1. Look or even drive around the neighborhood. Ask people if they have seen your pet. You could offer a reward. Try looking at night. Sometimes lost animals hide during the day.

2. Visit the shelter PERSONALLY, Only you know your pet. Your description may vary drastically from the shelter's description. Try at least every 3 days if not more often.

3. Contact veterinary clinics in your area. Your pet may have been injured and taken to a vet for treatment. Vets must limit treatment until a legal owner is found, so DON'T DELAY.

4. Post lost pet signs in post offices, shopping centers, stores, community bulletin boards, and list daytime and evening phone numbers.

5. Advertise in the Lost and Found column of newspapers. Check newspapers daily for "found" ads...don't rule out any possibility by always completely accepting descriptions as wrong only because of things such as the color of a collar, location found, even sex of the animal.

6. Ask neighbors to check their garages and sheds...... your pet may have been closed in by mistake.

7. Cats- A good time to check for cats is early in the morning and later in the evening when the neighborhood activities have quited down and your cat may feel safe in venturing out from a hiding place. Look under houses and up in trees.

8. Don't give up easily. Your pet may wander for several days or be taken in by someone who is not looking in the right place for you.

 

LOSS PREVENTION TIPS:

1. Use a permanent magic marker to write your home phone number on your pet's collar (tags alone can be lost).

2. Make sure that your pets always wear current I.D. tags.

3. Have a written descriptions (size, color, weight, marking) of your pets on hand in case they do get lost.
4. Check all corners of your yard on a routine basis to make sure that they aren't digging out of the yard.

5. Sometimes a friend or toy will keep them occupied and there mind off running away.

6. Check on the animal to see that they are ok, especially with a new animal in a new environment.

 

Why You Must Always Keep Your Cat Indoors:

The Average Lifespan of a Cat that goes outside is 3-5 years. The average lifespan of a Cat that is 100% indoors only is 14-20 years. Cats that are allowed outside are in Danger Due to;
1. Cars, Dogs, Coyotes, Raccoons, Snakes, Etc.
2. Satanic Cults, of which there are hundreds in the Los Angeles area, that steal cats and use them for animal sacrifices.
3. Crack Addicts, homeless people and criminals who steal cats        and sell them to research labs for up to $200 per cat.
4. Snail Poison, Anti-Freeze, Pesticides and Poisonous Plants that cats can eat.
5. Fatal, Highly Contagious Diseases such as FIP and Leukemia that Cats can easily get from other outdoor Cats.
6. People who throw Poisonous Food into other people's yards to kill their Pets - this is very common in Los Angeles and the Valley.

 

Why You Shouldn't Declaw A Cat:
1. Declawing is not just surgically removing the Cat's Nails.
2. It is Amputating the Cat's Toes at the first digit - like Amputating your fingers at the first Knuckle.
3. At least half of all Cats Declawed will not use a Litter Box afterwards. If you had the tips of your Toes Amputated, would you Rub the Stumps in the Sand?
4. Cats can be Trained to use a Scratching Post. Use a Water Sprayer to Spray your Cat when it tries to Claw the Furniture, then Rub its feet on the Scratching Post.
5. If you have Problems with your Cat Clawing the Furniture, there is a Product called "Soft Paws," available at your Vet, that can slove the problem.  "Soft Paws" are Plastic Nail Caps that fit over the Cat's Nails so that they are not Sharp and can do no Damage. They are 100% effective and Painless to your Cat.

 

Why You Must Spay Or Neuter Your Cat:
1. If you don't Neuter your Male Cat he will Spray all over your house.
2. If you don't spay your Female Cat, her chance of getting Uterine Cancer increases with every Heat she goes through.
3. It is very hard to keep Cats who have not been Spayed or Neutered inside.
4. Pet overpopulation is a huge problem. More than 45,000 Cats and Dogs were put to sleep in Los Angeles City Animal Shelters last year. Another 55,000 Cats and Dogs were put to sleep in County Shelters last year.
5. A Cat has only a one-in-a-eleven chance of being Adopted once it reaches a Shelter.
6. There are not enough Homes for existing Cats and Kittens. Every new Kitten that is born and finds a home means that another Cat or Kitten won't get a home and will Die.

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