Even an indoor cat can dart outside and get lost. Here are the types of identification that can help get her back home again.

By Ilene Springer

It happens all the time: You see one of those posters stapled to a pole in your neighborhood with a picture of a beloved pet. The owner is pleading for its return. Some of these notices are written by children, desperately seeking their beloved feline which has been lost to the outside world. Most families never see their lost cat again. “Ninety-nine percent of cats who are brought into a shelter do not have any identification on them,” says Carmine DiCenso, manager of the Boston Animal Care and Adoption Center in Boston, Massachusetts. …

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