Canada 2013 -04- 22 Adopt A Pet Booklet, Cat, Dog, Bird

Canada 2013 Adopt A Pet self-adhesive (peel and stick) booklet of five different stamps with two detachable panes = 10 stamps in total.

All stamp are <Permanent> (63c = Domestic) denominations.

First day of issue (emmision) is today, Monday, April 22, 2013.


The animals look like they are in cages or enclosures in an animal shelter while on the booklet, but,


when detached, they are freed and at leisure in their new homes. Very personal and heart warming.






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The colour for the background drawings is a reflective, grayish-silver colour. Turn the stamps into the light and the background pops out at you, and you notice the details of the environment.

One interesting note (not a flaw or fault really) is the floor. There is scoring (not cut through) at vertical angles up from the bottom of the floor and sometimes, on lighter colours, showing on the animals.

In normal viewing light, the scoring, simulating floor tiles I think, does not show at all.



The colour dots or traffic lights at lower right of each pane, a feature showing the printer's paper, 'C' or Tullis Russell Coatings paper in this case, and the colours used in printing the booklet and stamps, are animals with a person kneeling at the right-hand side, printed in the reflective colour, and very hard to see without tilting the booklet.

The animals or pets are a rabbit, a dog, a bird flying, a cat, a mouse or rat, a dog, and a kneeling man, facing left and holding out food. Picture has been darkened slightly to show the person.


Please note that animals are persons also.

I made two plain first day covers (mainly for the cancels!) and will post the stamps, a cat and a dog, and cancels when they arrive here in the mail.

Today is a good day for noticing the details for me.

The fluorescent tagging (long wave UV light) goes around three sides only of each of the stamps, the two sides and the upper edge, seeming to allow the animals to be free through the lower side, a nice touch.

Also, on the lower cat, the black cat, the right side tagging ends a bit lower at a 45' angle, the point of the wedge occurring on the outer edge.

On all the stamps, the tagging around the Permanent Maple Leaf, does not show on the leaf, thus making a maple leaf cut out in the tagging.



I have no camera or good lamp to show these in good detail.

An image scanned while the booklet pane wast ilted at about a 30' angle to catch the reflective colour in the light, as best I could.

I like these! Especially the animal & person color "dots".

The OFDC uses the souvenir sheet.

Here's my personal FDC using the booklet stamps, but I've included the image of "Coleman" from the booklet cover.

The parrot is "Buddy", the kitten is "Punky", the black cat is "Mickey" and the pug-mix is "Captain".



Does anyone know the breeds of the two large dogs ?

I believe that "Coleman", the booklet cover dog, is a collie-mix.

What is "Wrinkles", the tall thin dog?

Wrinkles looks like part dalmatian, judging by the spots on the legs especially.

Hello Balck Jag, Nice cover.

May I use your cancel for the POCON cancel thread on SCF?

the one on top left, is this a pitbull? I would not let my kids close to that beast.

Not quite. He's a pug.

Puzzler - Yes, of course you can.

The kneeling man is part of the tagging I suspect. Hit the booklet with a UV light and I am sure he will glow and be clearly visible. A similar effect to the scuba diver in the $10 blue whale definitive.

The man is not included in the tagging aspects of the stamps.

The man, owl and rat all have, included in their ink dyes, a low visibility reflective ink, able to be seen in ordinary light when held at an angle to the light.

The man appears to be almost invisible in ordinary light because he is shown only in the reflective ink; no visible ink being a part of him. The rabbit, however, is very reflective and almost shows as white when held at an angle to the light.

Color dots scanned at a 20 degree angle to the surface of the scanning bed.


The tagging is around the stamps' edge's only, with a concatenation feature in the tagging created by avoiding covering any part of the maple leaf <P> denomination by the tagging at all.

Two unofficial FDCs first day covers of the Adpot-a-Pet animal stamps that I created. A cat and a dog. The cancels / postmarks shown are the regular spray-on ink-jet type and the POCON type.

I do not have the souvenir sheet yet, of the water-activated, lick-and-stick stamps. and wonder if there will be any varieties on those stamps, and if the reflective ink, and / or tagging around the stamps, will be similar on them?