Pet Stories and Photos

My mother and I have been involved in rescue for many years and have fosters from several different groups in the KC area, including our own personal cats that we have had for a long time.
On October 3, 2009 we had the ultimate Rescuer's Nightmare. We had a house fire with our precious babies trapped inside. There were so many lost, but so many were saved! And, in a lovely miracle, all the cats that got out of the house into the huge outside world were recovered in less than a week! It blows my mind how amazing our neighbors and vets and the fire crews were. Our neighbors came from 4 blocks away with carriers and kennels to put cats in. Our vet heard about it because the dispatcher called her to let her know they would be bringing a large number of cats up to the clinic. She actually recognized the address as ours and came to our house to help there! She called in all the vets and about half of the techs too! One of those really nice firemen even got bit by my cat, but he didn't drop him!
This truly tragic event continues to plague my mother as she lost precious babies...many that she had since they were kittens!

IN MEMORY OF:
1) Ruffian
2) Nebula
3) Timone
4) Lilo
5) Stitch
6) Pumba
7) Chester
8) Silver
9) Ruthie Rae
10) Odo
11) Twitch
12) Emmie
13) Liberty
14) Helena
15) Isabella
16) Wink
17) Slice

Max got out of our fence. I don't know how. It has never happened before, but it happened somehow. We were so upset... only someone who has had this happen to them can know the feeling. I knew that he had his Love Your Pet tag on and it was the only thing that gave us hope. We got a call later in the evening. Max had wandered over 2 miles away and a kind person returned him to us. Thank you to that person and thank you again Love Your Pets.

Taylor

My cat Olive loves the new addition to her collar!

Although she is an indoor cat, Olive recently got out and was lost for 15 days. During this time I was emotionally and physically lost myself. She did not have a tag at the time. Finally, a kind person found her and contacted me via one of my "lost posters" which were plastered all around the neighborhood.

Olive is home now and wearing her new tag. Should she sneak out again, I have the peace of mind to know that she is more likely to come home.

As an added bonus, the stainless steel tag reflects light. When she is sitting in sunshine, at just the right angle, it catches a magical reflection which drives her nuts.

These are my indoor boys, but you can never be too safe so they both wear your ID tags. Kona (striped) wears the brass and Clancy (white) wears the stainless.

PS. My suitcase wears the red heart. Thank you for making us feel safe.

Amber is the new girl. Since we have three chihuahuas now we want all of them to be safe. Here she is wearing her new tag. She is three months old and we hope to have her for a long time.

After we changed collars on our old dog and he ran away, we never saw him again. We had not ordered his pet tag yet. You can bet that when we got Apache just now, the first thing we did was order his tag. We don't want to lose another little boy.

Here is our little boy sporting his tag. Since he is only 11 weeks old, we thought you might enjoy watching him grow old with us. We know you like to see pets wearing your tags. Here is a real cutie.

Patti is our third pet that we ordered tags for. She is a 3.5 pound long haired chihuahua, and being so small we are afraid she would never find her way back if she ran away.Here she is proudly wearing her tag.

It wasn't our dog that a tag helped but it did help. It was the middle of winter in Ohio and I was coming from a doctors appointment when I saw two dogs hovering over each other next to a fence. Apprehensive at first, I tried to coax the dogs towards me not knowing if they were vicious. As it turns out they weren't vicious, they were cold. I was able to get one of them into my car and another gentleman that was there to the other. After I got home, I called the number that was on the tag that rang into a veterinarians office. I gave them the name and they were able to pull the record on the dog and, after giving them my number, they passed it along to the owner who called me back almost immediately. That night the dog stayed with us but was reunited with his family the next day. This inspired my wife and I to get a dog and....YES! she has a tag.

One day on my way back to work after lunch, I spotted a German Shepherd running in the busy intersection looking totally lost. Traffic was quite busy and I was so worried he was going to get hit. Luckily I was able to catch up to him about a mile ahead as he found a shaded area to stop and take a break in the grass. I saw he looked harmless so I called to him and he calmly came to me. I had my dog's leash in the car and was able to get him leashed. I was so relieved to see he had an ID tag on so I called the owner and she was thrilled to get the call. They had been driving around all morning searching for him! They came and got him and were so grateful. That same afternoon I ordered my pooch, Jonah, his ID tag! I just received it today! Thank you so much!