Patent ID: 7908174

Claim:
A pet animal tracking system for a pet-care facility that provides pet-care grooming and pet-sitting services integrated with a computerized pet animal management system, which pet animal tracking system generates animal identification bands for wearing by pet animals within the custody of the pet-care facility, comprising: a pet animal management system operated by a microprocessor that maintains an animal information database of information associated with each of a plurality of pet animals within the custody of a pet-care facility; an animal label driver operatively engaged to the pet animal management system for selectively generating an animal identification band for a selected one of the pet animals within the custody of the pet-care facility, the animal identification band wearable by the pet animal during its custody by the pet-care facility and disposable after use comprising a sheet having an information display surface; an attacher for connecting the animal identification band to itself in association with the selected one of the pet animals; a printer operated by the animal label driver to print at least an identification code associated with the selected one of the pet animals on the information display surface of the animal identification band so that each pet animal is distinguished from other of the pet animals, whereby the animal identification band attaches in a selected position in association with the selected pet animal by the attacher.