I'm not crazy !

Infos
Name: Pünktchen
Location: cat-house of the cad aid organisation
Actual status: found a beautiful home

I was asked very often why his ears look "strange" and I can tell you that these are no ear-mites and luckily no skin cancer: In Germany we have a special system and what you see in his ear is a registration tattoo and the green spots on the top is the leftover of the tattoo-paste the vet has used.

Most of our cats here have those tattoos which contain a unique registration number. This number is known to an organisation names TASSO and the reason is quite simple: If your cat got lost (run away or whatever) and me for example would find her/him I would see immediately that this cat has an owner (what is not so obvious if a cat has just a chip, there you need a special reader). You can read the number, send it to TASSO and they can write a note to the owner that its cat was found.

The tattoo is given mostly together with the neutering (a VERY good thing to avoid cat-misery, so neuter your kitties ) when they are narcotized so the cat does not feel it.