Your Dog is Lost, Now What?
Dogs become lost for many reasons including an open door, a disaster such as a fire, tornado, vehicle accident and you want to know that if this happens to your pet, that you can find your dog. Here are some tips for finding lost dogs.
Losing a dog and not knowing where it is and if it is warm, scared, hurt or hungry can be a very traumatic experience. You just want to find him/her immediately! There are some proven ways to locate your dog and plenty of support that can be found in your community. Keep reading to discover what are your best chances for finding a lost dog.
Tips for finding a lost dog:
The first thing that you should do is to contact all local animal shelters, animal control agencies and vets in your local and surrounding areas (60 mile radius of your home).
Visit all local shelters on a daily basis and leave your contact information along with a recent picture and description of your dog with the shelters.
Leave a recent picture and description of your dog with local vets too because people who find dogs on the street may bring them into a local vet for care.
Search your neighborhood on foot and by vehicle calling your pets name. Enlist neighbors, friends and family members to help in the search. Post notices on neighborhood poles, bulletin boards and store bulletin boards. Don’t forget to post notices at the vets, pet supply stores, radio and TV stations. Make sure the notices describe your pet including the dog’s age, sex, weight, breed, color and any special markings. ALWAYS leave out one special identifying mark so that you can ask the person who finds the dog to describe this special not advertised feature so that you can be sure that any dog found is indeed yours.
There are pet-recovery scams that you need to be aware of and never give money in return for the safe delivery of your dog.
Never give up searching for your dog. Pet owners have been reunited with their dogs after months of searching.
To help reduce the chance of your dog being lost and not returned always make sure that your dog and other pets have ID tags with current information on them. Many communities have microchip programs, which is an excellent form of identifying your dog that can aid in the return of your dog if he/she becomes lost.
Your vet, humane society, dog shelter can give you more tips regarding how to find a lost dog as well as how to help prevent your dog from being lost. A collar with ID tags is a must for any pet, especially a dog that goes outside. A dog can easily be lost when out for a walk, while outside in a fenced in area, during a move, while being cared for by a pet sitter, or when someone forgets to close a door correctly. Pet owners rarely intend for a dog to become lost but dogs are lost everyday. Statistics show that the rightful dog owners recover less than 16% of lost dogs.
The majority of lost dogs are found just down the street, or within a mile of home. Sometimes a lost dog can travel for miles before being picked up by a caring individual. Even if your dog is picked up just a small distance from your home, the person who picks him/her up may take your dog to where ever that individual works or lives and the dog is now further away from home than what it could get on foot in the amount of time it has been lost. Your search efforts need to encompass all these possibilities.
When you have a lost dog, your neighbors may be your best bet of getting the dog back. The chances are good that someone in your neighborhood saw or heard something that can lead you to the recovery of your dog. Someone in your neighborhood may even have been the person who saw your dog and has him in his/her house.
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