Keeping Your Pets Safe (a Gentle Reminder To All Pet Owners)
AnimalCare 
Jan 26, 2013 
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Republishing this for the benefit of new readers:
On keeping your animals as safe as possible:
Dogs: Keep them confined within your house compound. Check that the space is escape-proof (gaps in gates, holes in fences, etc.). Let your dog wear a collar with a tag that has its name, your name and your contact details.
Cats: Keep them confined in a comfortable space secured with cat fences as cats can climb and jump. Cats should not wear collars unless it is detachable ones.
Always have a latest photo of your pet. The moment your pet is missing, put up an alert in all pet forums and start searching. Distribute flyers. On a spiritual level, send positive thoughts to your pet, visualise the road home and send this thought to your pet.
Microchipping might help too.
See this:http://www.petrescue.com/petlibrary/pet-rescue/how-to-find-a-lost-cat-or-dog/
How To Protect Your Pets Now
Safeguard your petsbefore they are lostby following the common-sense tips below.
Pet-proof your yard fenceso your cat or dog will be safely confined. Be sure to check your fence regularly for new escape routes.
Keep fence gates securely locked.This is for the safety of both your pet and any visitors (wanted or unwanted).
Never allow your pets to roam free in the neighborhood.Leash them at all times.
Always transport a cat in a carrier.Never take your cat to the Vet or anywhere else unless it is secured. A carried cat can bolt and hide if frightened by loud noises. When a cat is frightened in strange surroundings, especially with traffic noise around, it will hide and will not come to you.
The same goes for dogs.Always leash them when taking them anywhere. If a dog gets loose in an unfamiliar area its chances of ever finding its way home are practically nil.
Get some good photos of your pet now, before its too late.
Take close-up shots so that details show up well.
Keep taking shots until you get a few good ones that really look like your pet. Most snapshots of pets look like any other cat or dog. You want your photos to be unique and your pet to be unmistakable.
These photos will be invaluable to you later if your pet is ever lost.
Train your pet (catordog) to associate an Acme Dog Whistle with pleasant things.Blow the whistle each time just before you feed them. They will then be more likely to come running to you when you use the whistle to find them when they are lost.
Ensure that YOU can be located if your pet is found.
Always keep a collar on your pet with a tag that has yourCURRENT PHONE NUMBERon it.
Always have aCURRENTpet license tag attached to your pets collar. You can be found by the number on the tags.
A collar and phone tag are the most important form of IDyou can have for your pet. However, pets can lose their collars on the streets. For real security, a backup is needed (see the next two items).
Talk to your vet about a microchip implant.A chip provides positive and reliable identification for your pet and all modern shelters scan animals for this ID device. Find out which brand of chip is prevalent in your area and go with that one. If you have a choice, we like theHomeAgainmicrochips because it is constructed in such a manner that it tends to prevent migration from the injection site.
Also ask your vet about pet tattoos.We dont like tattoos as well as we do microchips, but they also provide positive identification if done correctly. A tattoo is often very difficult to read because hair has grown over it and/or the lost animal is frightened and will not allow inspection. If you do use a tattoo, we feel that the best place to apply it is on the inner thigh. Pet thieves have been known to cut off a tattooed ear!
Source: http://myanimalcare.org/2013/01/26/keeping-your-pets-safe-a-gentle-reminder-to-all-pet-owners/
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