What's So Green About Pet Tags?

We recently expanded our product line to include plastic and stainless steel pet ID tags from Don Carrick at Boomerang Tags. We love these pet tags! What initially drew our attention to the Boomerang Tag line of pet tags was their extreme durability. Some tags are also especially stylish. Whether you choose your pet identification tags for form or function, there's a Boomerang Tag that fits your dog or cat.

Plastic Pet Tags	Stainless Steel Pet Tags	Flat Collar Tags

We especially love the flat collar tags from Boomerang Tags. Flat collar tags are innovative because they fit snugly on the surface of a dog or cat collar instead of hanging from the collar's ring. Flat collar tags are a tidy and silent method of pet identification. There are no hanging components. It fits snugly and permamently when correctly matched with the width of your pet's collar. Our flat tags are sized to match our lines of dog collars and cat collars. Look on a collar's product page to find the matching flat tag.

Urban Leash & Treat stocks only organic, natural and sustainable pet supplies. So, we wondered, what's so green about Boomerang Pet Tags?

We posed this question to Don Carrick, owner of Boomerang Tags. He educated us on the several green benefits of his pet tags:

• All tags are 100% Made in the USA.
• Metal components are non-toxic and 100% recycleable.
• Plastic tags are recycleable.
• Boomerang Tags recycles all plastic and metal manufacturing scraps and all paper waste.
• All tags are durable and long-lasting. The stainless steel hanging and flat tags are guaranteed to last through the lifetime of your pet. Poor quality pet tags (i.e. cheap plastic or aluminum tags from a vending machine) wear out quickly, wasting energy and materials - and your money. Pet tags that wear out also jeapordize the safety of your pets.

We at Urban Leash & Treat especially support Don's comments about durability and recycleability. Long-lasting, high-quality products are green because they save manufacturing resources and save landfill space.

Here is more information about selecting a hanging or flat pet tag for your pet.

Selecting Hanging Plastic or Stainless Steel Tags

Plastic Pet Tags	Stainless Steel Pet Tags

To select the perfect hanging pet tag, select choices from the following considerations.

• Material: Do you want a stainless steel pet tag or a plastic pet tag?
• Shape: Choose the tag shape that best fits your pet's personality: Round, Bone, Heart, Cat Face or Dog Face.
• Size: Size choices range from mini to small, medium, large and jumbo. Available sizes depend on the selected tag style. Mini pet tags are great for cats and toy dogs but have a smaller engraving area. Small through jumbo-sized pet tags have six available lines of engraving. Not all tag styles are available in all sizes. Look in the product page for your desired tag style to find measurements for tag sizes.
• Engraving: Would you prefer single-sided or double-sided engraving? Some tag shapes are only available with single-sided engraving.
• Attachment Hardware: How should the tag attach to the collar? S-Hook and Split-Ring attachments are available.

Attachment Hardware Options:

S Hook	Split Ring

Selecting Flat Collar Tags

Flat Collar Tags

Flat collar tags have fewer configuration options than hanging tags.

• Collar Width = Flat Tag Size: The main consideration when selecting a flat collar tag is the width of the pet collar on which the tag will fit. It is very important to correctly measure the width of your pet collar! A flat collar tag fits securely and permanently on collars of the matching width. Flat collar tags are sized to fit all our 1/2", 3/4" and 1" collars.
• Material: Flat collar tags are available only in stainless steel.
• Engraving: Flat collar tags allow front-side engraving. The Mini size allows 4 lines of engraving. Larger sizes offer 5 engraved lines.

Flat Collar Tags Size Chart

Size	Fits Collar Width
Mini	3/8" or 1/2"
Small	5/8"
Medium	3/4"
Large	1"

Estimate Shipping Charges - New Site Feature

A few weeks ago, we quietly launched a new site feature that allows you to estimate the shipping charges for a product or your entire shopping cart.

Our new shipping estimator supports smart shopping practices. Unfortunately, even within the community of green retailers, there are companies who lower product prices artificially and make back the money in exorbitant shipping fees. Urban Leash & Treat is not one of those companies. We value transparency in shipping charges as part of an honest dialogue with our customers. At any point in your shopping experience, you are encouraged to use the shipping estimator to review our shipping fees. We think you will find our shipping charges to be quite reasonable.

To use the shipping estimator, click on this image on product pages or your shopping cart:

Thanks again for your business!

Welcome to the Neighborhood, Mt. Tabor Veterinary Care

We welcome Mt. Tabor Veterinary Care, a new veterinary practice, to our Southeast Portland, Oregon, neighborhood.

Dr. Kristin Sulis, DVM and Practice Owner

Recently, out on a walk with our ever-wagging dog Nixon, a 4-year-old female black Labrador Retriever, we were overjoyed to discover that Mt. Tabor Vet Care had opened up within walking distance of the Urban Leash & Treat warehouse.

Nixon was previously a patient at a vet clinic across town. Although it came highly recommended by Nixon's puppy vet, this clinic was never especially busy or friendly. We saw a different veterinarian for every appointment. For the three years that Nixon was a patient, every follow-up call made to us confused Nixon with a male dog. I mean, people, look at the chart before calling if the name is ambiguous! The lack of continuity of care and discard for basic manners frustrated us to no end, especially because of Kim's background as a veterinary technician at a compassionate clinic in the San Francisco Bay Area.

So we leapt at the chance to check out a new clinic. OK, before we leapt, we read the blog at the Mt. Tabor Vet Care. We discovered that they shared several important values with us. Foremost, the clinic believes in the education and active participation of the pet owner in veterinary health and longevity. To that end, the Mt. Tabor Vet Care performs most procedures in the exam room. If it is necessary to move to another room, the owner is always invited in to observe and help calm the patient. The clinic also values price transparency. They even post a price list for many procedures.

Mt Tabor Vet Care is owned by a solo veterinarian, Dr. Kirstin Sulis. In a word - she is tremendous! Her compassion for animals is overwhelmingly clear from the first minute that you meet her. Dr. Sulis and Katie made Nixon's initial appointment a fantastic experience. Nixon was very comfortable. The appointment was educational and also really fun. We feel confident in the medical and technical competence of the facility.

After our previous experiences seeing one standoffish vet after another, our guard was up for another cookie-cutter veterinary experience. Gratefully, we can report that Mt. Tabor Vet Care and Dr. Sulis anything but cookie-cutter veterinary medicine.

We must also say that the exam rooms and offices are stylish, modern and downright homey! Be sure to check out the construction blog posts to get a sense for the visual transformation of building the clinic.

Check out the Swanky Clinic!

We are so happy that Mt. Tabor Vet Care is in our neighborhood. Here's to a long life for a practice that values compassion and good health!

Break-Away Hemp Cat Collars - New Product

We just received our first shipment of break-away hemp cat collars from our friends at The Good Dog Company. These soft and sturdy collars are made from a blend of hemp and organic cotton fabrics. The break-away clasp helps keep your cat safe.

These hemp cat collars come in a selection of 8 colors: Avocado, Blue, Bronze, Marigold, Natural Hemp, Pink, Plum and Rust. They are tested to fit the Mini Stainless Steel Flat Collar Tag.

RSS Feeds for Products and Blog Posts - New Site Feature!

We are proud to announce that our catalog of natural pet products and blog posts are now syndicated as RSS feeds. Just copy these URLs into your favorite feed reader to stay up to date:

RSS Feed of Natural & Organic Pet Products
This RSS feed contains all natural and organic pet products available for sale at our store.

RSS Feed of Blog Posts
This RSS feed contains the latest posts to the Urban Leash & Treat blog.

Subscribing to our RSS feeds is an easy way to hear about new products, promotions and special events. See Wikipedia's RSS entry to learn more about RSS and feed readers.

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