I just learned of this through a spay and neuter coalition. Someone brought in a stray to be spayed and when she was shaved they found her tattoo and she didn't have to undergo a needless procedure to learn that she had already been spayed. Pretty cool idea! "Susan Peacock applies tattoo ink to the incision of a puppy after it was spayed at a clinic at Lame Deer High School on Wednesday. The tattoo permanently marks the dog as having been spayed." Read more: http://billingsgazette.com/news/sta...003-53d5-b3e4-5a995a81e0df.html#ixzz2BljpK6IP "And this is what the pound tattooed onto my kitten." http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&...w=103&start=0&ndsp=23&ved=1t:429,r:0,s:0,i:75
That's pretty cool. Where I live they clip a little bit out of one of their ears after spaying. That way it is instantly noticeable which cats have been done so they don't catch the same one twice.
My kitty has an N tattoed into her ear to show she was spayed. Guess the Humane Society doesn't care about differentiating between N for neutered, or S for spayed!
When I worked for a shelter we just shaved and looked for the scar tissue from the spay surgery. Males were much easier to tell lol.
