Pet emergency wallet card and window sticker

Written from the sources below on 17 October 2026. How we use sources.

Two small papers can speak for your pets when you cannot. A window sticker tells rescue workers that animals are inside. A wallet card tells whoever finds you, or your pet, who to call. Print both, fill them in by hand and keep them up to date.

• Download the card and sticker, US Letter (PDF)For printers in Canada and the US. One page: two window stickers and four credit-card-size cards.
• Download the card and sticker, A4 (PDF)The same page for A4 paper.

Print at 100 percent or "actual size", not "fit to page", so the cards keep their size. Fill them in by hand, then cut along the dashed lines.

The window sticker

The ASPCA recommends a rescue alert sticker that rescue workers can see, on or near your front door. It should show the types and number of pets in your home and the name and number of your vet. The ASPCA and the American Red Cross both say that if you must leave with your pets and there is time, you should write EVACUATED across it, so rescuers do not waste time looking for them.

Our sticker has a line for each of those, a line for your own phone number, and a line for where each pet hides. The AVMA says that listing your animals and their favorite hiding spots saves rescuers precious time. Stick or tape it where it can be seen from outside.

The ASPCA also gives out a free sticker by mail. Its page asked people to allow 6 to 8 weeks for delivery when we read it on 17 October 2026. This one you can print today.

The wallet card

The AVMA says identification should show your name, home address, phone numbers and the phone number of someone out of state whom you will be in touch with during or soon after a disaster. If possible, it adds your vet's name, location and phone number. Ready.gov also says to list an emergency contact outside your area.

The card has a place for each of those. It also has room for your pet's name and kind, color and markings, microchip number and company, any medicine or medical needs, and the place you plan to go in an evacuation. The AVMA lists those details among the papers to keep in an evacuation kit, and the ASPCA says a tag should show urgent medical needs.

Fill in one card for each pet or each household. Keep one in your wallet and one in the pet kit, and give one to your backup person.

A card does not replace a tag or a microchip

Ready.gov and the ASPCA both say to put a collar and ID tag on every pet, and the ASPCA recommends a microchip. The AVMA says to make sure the microchip is registered with a national pet recovery database and that your contact details are kept current.

Keep them current

The ASPCA says to rotate the food and water in your kit every two months. Check your card and sticker at the same time: new phone number, new medicine, new pet.

Next

• Pet disaster preparedness for four emergencies.
• Pet emergency kit checklist as a free PDF.