Numberplates For Pet Lovers

This year’s holiday shopping season is in full swing with retailers helping consumers plan their gift lists for friends, family and pets. According to the American Pet Products Association, 62 percent of U.S. households own a pet and nearly 80% of dog owners purchase gifts for their pet. One gift that keeps on giving is gaining popularity this year — the California Pet Lover’s License Plate (www.petloversplate.org).

“Traditionally, pet lovers have looked for gifts that provide instant gratification for their pets — toys, treats, and accessories like beds, collars, and sweaters,” said Executive Director of Found Animals Foundation Aimee Gilbreath. “In 2010, we’re encouraging pet lovers to add more gifts that keep giving all year long to their selections, from a promise to head to the dog park each week to visible expressions of love for a pet.”

This holiday season, pet lovers and their friends and family can make a difference by giving the California Pet Lover’s License Plate, a one-of-a-kind gift that never goes out of style or gets “used up,” and that keeps on giving year after year: The whimsical license plate, which can be personalized with a beloved pet’s name (or other words), features original artwork created and donated by international actor, artist and animal lover Pierce Brosnan showing two of the animals Mr. Brosnan and his wife Keely adopted: Shilo the dog and Angel Baby the cat.

Purchasing the California Pet Lover’s License Plate helps provide free or low-cost spay and neuter surgeries, and displays a person’s love for pets. Additionally, it will help raise awareness about the overwhelming number of homeless and unwanted dogs and cats in California and the importance of spaying and neutering pets to save animal lives.