Our standards
Identity & Records
Every animal we sell has a permanent record that outlives the sale.
An animal is numbered the day it is cut or acquired — before it is settled, before it is photographed, before anyone decides what it is worth. The number is the first fact recorded about it and the last one that will still be true.
The number is the address, and it encodes nothing
A PL number carries no species, no category and no date. That is deliberate. An animal re-identified next year keeps the same address, because the address was never a claim about what it is — only about which one it is.
It does not change when the animal is sold, and it does not change when the category it belongs to is renamed.
The record outlives the sale
A page stays up after the animal ships. The record card travels in the box with the number, the date and the parameters it was held at, so the same facts exist in two places that do not depend on each other.
Never reissued
A number belongs to one animal permanently. None has been reissued since 2018.
What this means in practice
- Numbered on day oneEvery animal gets its number the day it is cut or acquired, before it is settled, photographed or priced.
- The number encodes nothingNo species, no category, no date. Re-identifying an animal never invalidates its address.
- Never reissuedRetired with the animal. A number is not freed up when a record closes, so the same address never points at two animals.
- The record outlives the saleThe page stays up after the animal ships, and the record card travels in the box.