Most of us know that our pets should be micro-chipped by law in Spain.
However, one cannot guarantee that a person who finds a lost pet will go to the trouble of taking that animal to a vet in order to discover if it is chipped and the owner can be contacted.
Therefore, I am appealing to everyone to buy a tag to go on the pet’s collar. This tag should have the pet’s name on one side and your phone number on the other. As an added safeguard, do as many Spanish families do, and write the name and your phone number on the inside of the collar also.
From personal experience I know the panic when one loses a pet! We were fortunate in that all our dogs wear Name & Number tags.
Also from personal experience, I know the high price charged for an engraved dog tag from one of the shops in The El Ingenio Centre, Velez Málaga. So I recommend people either buy one of the plastic tags on which one can write the information ( and keep checking it’s still legible) or – buy a blank metal tag and take it to a local jeweler who will engrave name and number for a very small fee.
Most of us think our pets will never run away – many of us know different!
Please Tag and Pet this week!
Jane Kirk - President of CAS
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