  1. Start searching for your pet immediately. Pets will usually hang around the area where they disappeared for 12-24 hours. Also, most shelters will keep unclaimed animals for just THREE days before euthanizing them or offering them for adoption. Some animal control facilities will hold animals for at least 6 days if the animal is wearing tags. After that, however, they are sold to medical research labs, offered for adoption or killed. If your pet does not already have tags, get them NOW. You can purchase I.D. tags from your veterinarian or a pet store. Tags are also given out with rabies shots. For added insurance pet owners have their pets tattooed with a registration number or injected with a microchip.
Tattooing costs $20-$30. For details call national registration service Tatoo-A-Pet @ 800-828-8667.
Implanting a microchip, a simple procedure using a needle, costs $25-$65.
2. Search the neighborhood when it's quiet, either in the early morning or evening hours. Walk slowly and call to your pet, then quietly listen for for any response. A trick is to record the sound of your electric can opener and play it while searching or have a box of food with you and shake it as you search.
3. Enlist the help of neighborhhod kids by offering them a reward for finding your dog.
4. File a missing report with as many private and municipal shelters as you can, then visit the shelters every other day since you are the only one that can positively identify your pet.
5. Notify veterinary clinics in your area. Many times, people will bring injured animals to the nearest, veterinary clinic for treatment.
6. If you've lost a purebred dog or cat, contact the original breeder and the breed's rescue group in your area for additional assistance.
7. Make and distribute posters. Begin with the word REWARD to get people's attention. Make sure the poters include a photo of the pet; where and when it was lost; a brief description with color, size, age, sex and breed; and phone numbers.
8. Now hit the streets with your posters. Show them to your neighbors and post them in public places like grocery stores, animal shelters, community centers, local schools, office buildings, pet stores and groomers.. Give a copy to the mail carriers, garbage workers, meter readers and other municipal workers.
9. Advertise in the lost-pet section of newspapers. Beware of people that may call to scam you out of your money. Be vague about your pets description, then when someone calls claiming to have your pet ask for a full description of the animal. Main Page
Site Index
Helpful Links Safe-T-Pet You can get pet tags here.
The Dog Zone You can post a message about your lost dog here.
Sherlock Bones Tracer of missing pets.
Dogshome.com The lost dogs home and cat shelter. Lost and found database in Australia.
The The National Dog Registry Protecting the nation's pets against loss and theft since 1966.
Dog Gone Locate Helping you locate your lost pets.
Lostpets.com Internet Lost and Found for the United States
Dog Detective Give people instant access to your dog's photo and information!
Tatoo-A-Pet, is the worlds largest network of pet protection registration and recovery utilizing a permanent painless identification on a pet.
Pet-id.net microchip identifcation solutions for pets and animals world-wide
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