PROTECT YOUR PETS FROM THEFT.....

Ideas from Sept.issue of Dog Fancy this year (2001):

1. Never leave your dog (or cat UNATTENDED!

2. Do not have your dog's fenced play area visible from the street.

3. When NOT home, leave pet with RESPONSIBLE person.

4. Verify ID from any Animal Welfare Workers .

5. Educate yourself about DOG THEFTS in YOUR area. NOTIFY Police of
any suspicious activity!

6. Don't list YOUR address in newspaper ads that mention YOUR DOG.

7. Provide your dog an ID with Microchip or collar/tags with YOUR
NAME!

8. Encourage Government officials to support STRONG Dog Theft Laws!
Dog napping continues across the US and at least TWO MILLION dogs
are reported EACH Year STOLEN. Few are recovered!
Thieves sell them on canine black markets to dealers who sell to
LABS---for from $ 200 - $ 500 EACH and Puppy Mills ( Where dogs are bred
in squalid conditions and kept with little
food/water!)

Friendly purebreds are TARGETED but healthy, friendly, mixed breeds
are at risk too!

Website devoted to locating stolen pets:

www.eburg.com/~dalmatia/dulcie.html

Posted on SHARE Yahoo group Jul 31, 2001