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To give you as much help as possible, we have gathered the below suggestions, tips, and information regarding finding lost animals and have organized it by animal type.
Dogs - Tips to finding your lost Dog!
- Check your home thouroughly. Sometimes your dog may be accidently left in a closed room, garage or shed. Listen carefully for movement when calling the pet's name.
- Check with your neighbors that surround your home. Even if they, at the time, have not seen your dog, give them a flyer with the dog's picture so more people will be aware of what your dog may look like.
- Walk your neighborhood calling your dog's name. Pass out flyers when possible.
- Yards with animals may be of interest to your dog. Animals that have not been fixed often seek mates of opportunity within close proximity.
- Leave food and water outside your door in case your dog returns while you are away or while you may, at the momment, be unaware of it's return.
- Check the animal shelters in your city in person. Often times speaking on the phone is less accurate.
- Where allowed, place flyers around the greater area. Locations where people gather, such as mail box centers, grocery stores, gas stations, etc., may be the most wise place to place the flyers in your effort to spread the word.
- Place ads in local newspapers and other lost and found pet web sites.
- Call Local Veterinarians in your area. It is possible someone has brought your dog in with injuries; ask the vets if you can post a flyer in their clinics.
- Check with local Animal Rescue Organizations
- Offering a reward to neighborhood children helps your effort gain more attention.
- Placing a reward on your flyer may motivate the less helpful people.
Cats - Tips to finding your lost Cat!
- Check your home thouroughly. Sometimes your cat may be accidently left in a closed room, garage or shed. Check under your beds, closets, behind the refrigerator, behind the stove and lower cupboards. Listen carefully for movement when calling the pet's name.
- Check with your neighbors that surround your home. Even if they, at the time, have not seen your cat, give them a flyer with the cat's picture so more people will be aware of what your cat may look like.
- Walk your neighborhood calling your cat's name. Pass out flyers when possible.
- Yards and homes with other cats may be of interest to your cat. Animals that have not been fixed often seek mates of opportunity within close proximity.
- Leave food and water outside your door in case your cat returns while you are away or while you may, at the momment, be unaware of it's return. Some people have placed a Baby Monitor on their porch and have been awakened in the early morning hours by their cat's meowing.
- Check the animal shelters in your city in person. Often times speaking on the phone is less accurate.
- Where allowed, place flyers around the greater area. Locations where people gather, such as mail box centers, grocery stores, gas stations, etc., may be the most wise place to place the flyers in your effort to spread the word.
- Place ads in local newspapers and other lost and found pet web sites.
- Call Local Veterinarians in your area. It is possible someone has brought your cat in with injuries; ask the vets if you can post a flyer in their clinics.
- Check with local Animal Rescue Organizations.
- Offering a reward to neighborhood children helps your effort gain more attention.
- Placing a reward on your flyer may motivate the less helpful people.
Birds - Tips to finding your lost Bird!
- When looking for a lost bird, remember that an during the first month following "escape," a lost parrot usually stays within a one-mile radius of where it was lost.
- Looking for your bird at the time of day when most active is recommended. Depending on species, BEFORE sun-up while it is still dark, and AFTER sundown when they are the most vocal and active. You may use a high powered flashlight to momentarily blind the bird while another person nets or grabs the bird.
- Some people have a recording of their bird. Playing this recording intermittently as you look for your bird has been successful.
- Offering a reward to neighborhood children helps your effort gain more attention.
- Placing a reward on your flyer may motivate the less helpful people.
- Put the bird's cage outside, full of it's favorite junk-food, and leave the door open. If your bird has a feathered friend, put it outside, also (in a locked cage). [Only attempt this if you are home and watching the cage(s) carefully]. This may entice your bird to come. If you have a dog/cat that your bird doesn't like, be sure to keep them far away from the cage.
Ferrets and Rodents - Tips to finding your lost Ferret or Rodent!
- Check your home thouroughly. Sometimes your ferret may be accidently left in a closed room, laundry room, garage or shed. Check under your beds, closets, behind the refrigerator, behind the stove and lower cupboards. Listen carefully for movement when calling the pet's name.
- Check with your neighbors that surround your home. Even if they, at the time, have not seen your ferret, give them a flyer with the ferret's picture so more people will be aware of what your ferret may look like.
- Walk your neighborhood. Pass out flyers when possible.
- Some ferrets are drawn to the sound of a squeak toy.
- Yards and homes with other animals may be of interest to your ferret. Animals that have not been fixed often seek mates of opportunity within close proximity.
- Leave food and water outside your door in case your ferret returns while you are away or while you may, at the momment, be unaware of it's return. Put a carrier or small cage outside your home with the food and water with blankets for your ferret. You should choose sleeping material that your ferret has already used, so it smells like "home".
- Check the animal shelters in your city in person. Often times speaking on the phone is less accurate.
- Where allowed, place flyers around the greater area. Locations where people gather, such as mail box centers, grocery stores, gas stations, etc., may be the most wise place to place the flyers in your effort to spread the word.
- Place ads in local newspapers and other lost and found pet web sites.
- Call Local Veterinarians in your area. It is possible someone has brought your ferret in with injuries; ask the vets if you can post a flyer in their clinics.
- Check with local Animal Rescue Organizations.
- Offering a reward to neighborhood children helps your effort gain more attention.
- Placing a reward on your flyer may motivate the less helpful people.
Rabbits - Tips to finding your lost Rabbit!
- Search the area the rabbit was last seen thoroughly. If the rabbit became frightened or ill it may be hiding. Gradually widen the search, check under things like bushes, cars and places your rabbit could have crawled into.
- Make sure the hutch/run is open so your bunny can get back in if they return.
- Sometimes your rabbit may be accidently left in a closed room, laundry room, garage or shed. Check under your beds, closets, behind the refrigerator, behind the stove and lower cupboards. Listen carefully for movement when looking.
- Check with your neighbors that surround your home. Even if they, at the time, have not seen your rabbit, give them a flyer with the rabbit's picture so more people will be aware of what your rabbit may look like and the situation.
- Walk your neighborhood. Pass out flyers when possible.
- Leave food and water outside your door in case your rabbit returns while you are away or while you may, at the momment, be unaware of it's return.
- Check the animal shelters in your city in person. Often times speaking on the phone is less accurate.
- Where allowed, place flyers around the greater area. Locations where people gather, such as mail box centers, grocery stores, gas stations, etc., may be the most wise place to place the flyers in your effort to spread the word.
- Place ads in local newspapers and other lost and found pet web sites.
- Call Local Veterinarians in your area. It is possible someone has brought your rabbit in with injuries; ask the vets if you can post a flyer in their clinics.
- Check with local Animal Rescue Organizations.
- Offering a reward to neighborhood children helps your effort gain more attention.
- Placing a reward on your flyer may motivate the less helpful people.
Reptile - Tips to finding your lost Reptile!
- Search the area the reptile was last seen thoroughly. If the reptile became frightened or ill it may be hiding. Gradually widen the search, check under things like beds, book cases, desks, piles of clothes, inside shoes, and places your reptile could have crawled into.
- Areas that may be warm may be of interest to your reptile. Next to computers, ovens, water heaters...all should be checked.
- Some people place flour around the entrances and exits to rooms to see if the reptile leaves prints.
- Some people turn down the heat while placing a heat pad or warm tub of water in the room to help draw the reptile out.
Horses - Tips to finding your lost Horse!
- When searching your general area, make sure you take a halter, lead rope and a pail of grain to entice your horse.
- Horses usually seek out other horses, so alert your neighbors and ask if he's in their pasture. If you're along an interstate or main road, alert the state police and animal control.
- Wooded areas where the horse might not be in plain view, making sure the horse hasn't fallen through the ice in a pond, should also be checked.
- Horses are really curious and they think they can fit in areas where they really can't, especially youngsters, so they might wander into a tight grove or shed and get accidentally caught. Usually horses that get out on their own don't go far, so concentrate your first efforts in areas close to home.
- Place ads in local newspapers and other lost and found pet and equestrian web sites.
- Call Local Veterinarians in your area. It is possible someone has brought your horse in with injuries; ask the vets if you can post a flyer in their clinics.
- Check with local Animal Rescue Organizations.
- Offering a reward to neighborhood children helps your effort gain more attention.
- Placing a reward on your flyer may motivate the less helpful people.