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Finding a Lost Pet
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When your beloved dog or cat strays from home, it can be a traumatic experience for both of you. Here are some tips that we hope will help you find your pet. Contact local animal shelters and animal control agencies. File a lost pet report with every shelter within a 60-mile radius of your home and visit the nearest shelters daily, if possible. To find your local shelter go to www.pets911.com or check your phone book. If there is no shelter in your community, contact the local police department. Provide these agencies with an accurate description and a recent photograph of your pet. Notify the police if you believe your pet was stolen. Search the neighborhood. Walk or drive through your neighborhood several times each day. Ask neighbors, letter carriers and delivery people if they have seen your pet. Hand out a recent photograph of your pet and information on how you can be reached if your pet is found. Advertise. Post notices at grocery stores, community centers, veterinary offices, traffic intersections, online at www.pets911.com, at pet supply stores and other locations. Also, place advertisements in newspapers and with radio stations. Include your pet's sex, age, weight, breed, color and any special markings. When describing your pet, leave out one identifying characteristic and ask the person who finds your pet to describe it. Be wary of pet-recovery scams. When talking to a stranger who claims to have found your pet, ask him to describe the pet thoroughly before you offer any information. If he does not include the identifying characteristic you left out of the advertisements, he may not really have your pet. Be particularly wary of people who insist that you give or wire them money for the return of your pet. Don't give up your search. Animals who have been lost for months have been reunited with their owners.
A pet—even an indoor pet—has a better chance of being returned if she always wears a collar and an ID tag with your name, address, and telephone number. Ask your local animal shelter or veterinarian if permanent methods of identification (such as microchips) are available in your area. |
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MahonMacRi @
Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:01 AM |
I had my dog microchipped when he was a few months old, when he was still hyper-excitable and just scatter-brained enough to take off after almost anything that caught his attention...squirrels, cats, ANYthing! Fortunately, he responded very well to training, and quickly realised that our laneway was OFF LIMITS, unless I was right there and gave him permission to chase a stray tennis ball. Having the chip has given me a great sense of security, since I know that should the unlikely (and near-impossible) ever happen and Tas be comes separated from me or lost, we'll be reuinited again almost as soon as he's found. Vets, animal control officers and shelters all over North America are becoming ever-increasingly well armed with scanners for detecting and reading microchips, so if my boy ever does manage to disappear (however unlikely that might be, since he refuses to go more than 10 or 15 yards from me, even when we're at the dog park) I won't need to panic or worry too much because that chip will always bring him home to me.
Chipping your pet is cheap and easy, and can even be done while they're under anasthetic during their spay/neutering procedure. The chip will bring you great peace of mind, just as it has me. |
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toplom @
Saturday, June 14, 2008 2:38 PM | |
My pets have ID collars, microchip and they are registered in the lost pet recovery. Lost pet recovery operates 24/7 365 days a year. Since I live in a hurricane prone area, this is something that concerns me very much. |
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