I just wanted to share this with you, looking back on the things that I will/won't do differently in the future.
1. Microchip everything. I should microchip the car. Even with the slight snag with Satch's chip, I feel that they would have sorted it out and gotten him to me.
2. Put a bumper sticker on your car. I hate bumper stickers, but putting out a notice on a nondescript white car - which matches the description of 90% of cars out there, it seems, I'm going to put a pink one on there from a CD store back home. License plates numbers are hard to remember and easy to remove - bumper stickers aren't.
3. Collars. I don't think that having the cats in a carrier would have been better - in fact maybe worse, because they wouldn't be able to leave the car, but even as indoor cats, I see how collars are a good idea.
4. Cut off switch in the car. Who would want this car? I felt, and still feel to some extent, but whether or not I know the answer to that is not the point. I don't know who and I don't know why, I just know that they did and if there's a simple fix to prevent it from happening again, even if it probably won't ever in my lifetime, I am going to take it in order to feel safer.
5. Be a member of this list for life. Give back, be open, because you will probably never meet such a wonderful and supportive group of people your entire life.
Stay safe you all, I'm off to stiller waters - though I know that my tv-viewing public will be so sad by that. :)
Leslie
