Date:   July 19, 2000

 

 

Don’t Let Your Pet Go AWOL
(Absent Without a Leash)

New Internet-based pet registration service partners with Bayer Corporation to find lost dogs and cats

 

(Kansas City, MO)—Reuniting lost pets with their owners has never been easier, thanks to AWOLPET.com, and the power and convenience of the Internet.  Convenient and affordable, AWOLPET.com is the only web-based pet registration service that allows pet owners to register their pets using rabies tag numbers, municipal license tag numbers, and microchip or tattoo codes.

 

Using a powerful search engine that matches the tag or microchip numbers with owner information, AWOLPET.com helps reunite pets with their owners quickly and easily.  The service also lets owners register their pet’s daily medication needs—which can save the life of a pet who becomes lost and is suffering from medical problems.  No other pet registration system is as quick, easy and affordable for pet owners, veterinarians, animal shelters and finders of lost pets.

 

Today, AWOLPET.com announced it has partnered with the Bayer Corporation, maker of the leading flea control product, Advantage® (imidacloprid) Topical Solution.  With each AWOLPET.com registration, customers will receive a coupon for their next purchase of Advantage (up to a $12 value).  The coupon is also available on the AWOLPET.com website following on-line registration—just click the Advantage logo.

 

According to Chris Jacobi, segment leader for Bayer’s Parasiticides Marketing department, “AWOLPET.com is an important and beneficial service to the animal community and gives a sense of security to the owners of the nearly 12 million pets lost each year.  This new partnership not only ensures that pets everywhere enjoy the benefits of Advantage, it says that Bayer firmly supports the mission of AWOLPET.com: to keep pets and their owners together.”

 

Deborah Welsh, president and founder of AWOLPET.com, “Our new partnership with Bayer exemplifies how enthusiastically the companion animal health community has embraced our service.  We are receiving hundreds of requests for information and on-line registrations are increasing daily.  As a veterinarian’s daughter and pet owner, I understand the anguish an owner endures when a pet disappears.  I also realize the concern of a person who wants desperately to reunite a lost pet with its owner.  AWOLPET.com was created to help resolve those issues.”