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The Lost Dog
It’s the thing we fear the most…our dog is loose and on the run.
Create Lost Pet signs for each of your pets before you need them. Have a good picture of all your pets with their descriptions, and contact phone numbers for sightings. Leave room to add in the area dog was lost in and the date.
You can use the poster below and modify for your pets.
If your dog was a rescue, contact your dog’s rescue organization! Then 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.
Contact local vet’s offices, the dog warden, and animal control (see below for a list of local agencies). Animal Control Agents capture stray animals, assist in pet/owner recovery.
Contact the local police department.
Provide these agencies with an accurate description and a recent photograph of your pet.
Search your neighborhood. Walk or drive through your neighborhood several times each day. Ask neighbors, letter carriers, lawn care providers, and delivery people if they have seen your dog. Hand out a recent photo of your pet with your contact information.
If your dog is very shy: Take along another dog that your lost, shy, dog will recognize as a friend. Do not chase a shy dog. Sit down and calmly talk to them or offer them food that is very smelly like warm tuna or canned cat food. Do not make eye contact. When the shy dog approaches, open the car door and move away the shy dog may just hop right in.
Advertise. Post Lost Dog notices at grocery stores, community centers, veterinary offices, traffic intersections, pet supply stores.
Include your dog’s name, sex, age, weight, breed, color and any special markings. Place the poster in a large Ziploc Bag (open end facing down to prevent water getting in) and post it on poles at shoulder height. Some signs should face the street and the sidewalk.
If the lost dog isn’t found in the first 24 hrs and seems to be frequenting the same area, consider a Humane Animal Trap which can often be borrowed from a local dog rescue. If possible, the area where the trap is placed should offer some shelter from the sun. Check it daily. If left unattended, the dog is at the mercy of fleas and ticks, heat and cold, rain and other adverse conditions. A frightened pet will often become distressed and frantic.
Don’t bait the trap with raw meat. It will spoil. If it must be used, say for overly shy dog, or when other baits fail, change it often or use canned dog or cat food or canned sardines. Only partially open the can to keep bait from drying out (and losing its luring qualities).
Dog Search and Rescue Group: http://www.pghpetdetective.com/ 412-670-1715 or 412-628-2840. On Your Tail is a nonprofit group that will do a consultation, print and distribute flyers, do Surveillance with thermal imaging, night vision and cameras along with setting traps to help get your dog back.
Use the Internet. These sites may be able to help you out:
Your own Facebook Page, local animal rescue pages, and:
Pet Amber Alert: https://www.petamberalert.com
Lost and Found Pets Pittsburg PA: https://www.facebook.com/LostFoundPetsPittsburghPa/
Reuniting dogs with Families.Pittsburgh https://www.facebook.com/groups/274087052755008/
Lost Dogs n Cats Westmoreland:
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=lost%20dogs%20n%20cats%20westmoreland
Lost Dogs Pittsburgh: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringeggrollhome/
Other web sites:
You can add place markers for the following (use different colors and symbols for):
Sample Lost Animal Poster
It’s the thing we fear the most…our dog is loose and on the run.
Create Lost Pet signs for each of your pets before you need them. Have a good picture of all your pets with their descriptions, and contact phone numbers for sightings. Leave room to add in the area dog was lost in and the date.
You can use the poster below and modify for your pets.
If your dog was a rescue, contact your dog’s rescue organization! Then 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.
Contact local vet’s offices, the dog warden, and animal control (see below for a list of local agencies). Animal Control Agents capture stray animals, assist in pet/owner recovery.
Contact the local police department.
Provide these agencies with an accurate description and a recent photograph of your pet.
Search your neighborhood. Walk or drive through your neighborhood several times each day. Ask neighbors, letter carriers, lawn care providers, and delivery people if they have seen your dog. Hand out a recent photo of your pet with your contact information.
If your dog is very shy: Take along another dog that your lost, shy, dog will recognize as a friend. Do not chase a shy dog. Sit down and calmly talk to them or offer them food that is very smelly like warm tuna or canned cat food. Do not make eye contact. When the shy dog approaches, open the car door and move away the shy dog may just hop right in.
Advertise. Post Lost Dog notices at grocery stores, community centers, veterinary offices, traffic intersections, pet supply stores.
Include your dog’s name, sex, age, weight, breed, color and any special markings. Place the poster in a large Ziploc Bag (open end facing down to prevent water getting in) and post it on poles at shoulder height. Some signs should face the street and the sidewalk.
If the lost dog isn’t found in the first 24 hrs and seems to be frequenting the same area, consider a Humane Animal Trap which can often be borrowed from a local dog rescue. If possible, the area where the trap is placed should offer some shelter from the sun. Check it daily. If left unattended, the dog is at the mercy of fleas and ticks, heat and cold, rain and other adverse conditions. A frightened pet will often become distressed and frantic.
Don’t bait the trap with raw meat. It will spoil. If it must be used, say for overly shy dog, or when other baits fail, change it often or use canned dog or cat food or canned sardines. Only partially open the can to keep bait from drying out (and losing its luring qualities).
Dog Search and Rescue Group: http://www.pghpetdetective.com/ 412-670-1715 or 412-628-2840. On Your Tail is a nonprofit group that will do a consultation, print and distribute flyers, do Surveillance with thermal imaging, night vision and cameras along with setting traps to help get your dog back.
Use the Internet. These sites may be able to help you out:
Your own Facebook Page, local animal rescue pages, and:
Pet Amber Alert: https://www.petamberalert.com
Lost and Found Pets Pittsburg PA: https://www.facebook.com/LostFoundPetsPittsburghPa/
Reuniting dogs with Families.Pittsburgh https://www.facebook.com/groups/274087052755008/
Lost Dogs n Cats Westmoreland:
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=lost%20dogs%20n%20cats%20westmoreland
Lost Dogs Pittsburgh: https://www.facebook.com/groups/bringeggrollhome/
Other web sites:
- Center for Lost Pets: http://www.thecenterforlostpets.com/lost.aspx
- < >: https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/search/ccc?sort=rel&query=lost%20dogsFido Finder: https://www.fidofinder.com/
- Lost My Doggie: https://www.lostmydoggie.com/missing-pets.cfm
- Missing Pet Partnership: http://www.missingpetpartnership.org/
You can add place markers for the following (use different colors and symbols for):
- Locations where your dog went missing from
- Every sighting with a time and date
- Area(s) flyer and sign locations
- Potential food sources
- Potential hiding places
Don't give up. Animals that have been lost for months have been reunited with their owners.
Your dog has a better chance of being returned if it always wears a collar and an ID tag with your name, address and telephone number along with your dog rescue group’s tag.
Local Pittsburgh Animal Control Agencies that cover local municipalities:
Pittsburgh Animal Control: 412-255-2036. City of Pittsburgh
Monroeville Animal Control: 412-856-3355. Monroeville
West Deer Township Animal Control: 724-224-5291. West Deer Township
Upper St. Clair Animal Control: call 911 Castle Shannon, Dormont, Greentree, Mt. Lebanon, Scott Twp, Upper St. Clair, Whitehall
Ferree Kennels: 412-672-6699. Baldwin, Braddock, Clairton City, Dravosburg, Duquesne, East McKeesport, Elizabeth Boro, Elizabeth Twp, Forward Twp, Glassport, Homestead Boro, Jefferson Boro, Liberty Boro, Lincoln Boro, North Huntingdon, North Versailles Twp, Pleasant Hills Boro, Portvue Boro, South Versailles, Versailles Boro, West Elizabeth Boro, West Homestead Boro, West Mifflin, Whitaker, White Oak
Triangle Pet Control: 412-771-7387. Aleppo Twp, Moon Twp, Aspinwall, Mount Oliver, Munhall, Baldwin, Neville, Bell Acres, North Braddock, Bethel Park, North Fayette Twp, Blawnox, O’Hara Twp, Braddock Hills, Oakdale, Brentwood, Ohio Twp, Bridgeville, Carnegie, Pennsbury Village, Chalfont, Pine Twp, Churchill, Pitcairn, Collier Twp, Rankin Boro, Coraopolis, Reserver Twp, Crafton, Richland Twp, Rosslyn Farms, Robinson Twp, Edgeworth, Sewickley Heights, Emsworth, Shaler Twp, Etna, Sharpsburg, Finley Twp, South Fayette Twp, Franklin Park, South Park, Hampton Twp, Stowe Twp, Hanover Twp, Swissvale, Hopewell Twp, Thornburg, Ingram, Turtle Creek, Kennedy Twp, Leetsdale, West View, McCandless Twp, Wilkinsburg, McKees Rocks, Millvale
Hoffman Kennels: 724-468-5505. Cheswick Boro, Oakmont Boro, Penn Hills, Plum Boro, Forest Hills Boro, Frazer Twp, Springdale Boro, Harmar Twp, Tarentum, Harrison Twp, Fawn Twp, Indiana Twp, Verona Boro, Wilkins Twp, Wilmerding Boro
Other Animal Control Agencies that cover local municipalities:
Moran Kennels: 724-872-7797. Sutersville, Adamsburg East Huntingdon Madison Monessen Rostraver Sewickley Township South Huntingdon Sutersville West Newton
State dog wardens of the PA: Bureau of Dog Law Enforcement contact: PA Dept of Agriculture – Region 4, Gibsonia Office: 724-443-1585.
Beaver County Animal Control: http://www.beaver.ab.ca/departments/public-safety/animal-control. 1-866-663-1333 or 780-663-3730.
Butler Country Animal Control: http://www.butlersheriff.org/general-info/dog-warden-info/ and you can post information regarding a lost Butler Co. pet on their FaceBook page at: https://www.facebook.com/ButlerCountyDogWarden
Washington County: Canonsburg. 724-746-4344.
Sample Lost Animal Poster
Lost Dog
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{INSERT} A Good Head & Body Photo of Your Dog
‘Daisy’ the Greyhound
Identifying marks: Heart shaped spot on her tail, one eye black spot, one eye white. Wearing
a green collar. She needs medicine right away, family misses her. Or She is very shy, please do not approach.
Last seen: Corner of Fifth St & Elm, Our City, State on Jan 12th, 8:00 a.m.
Call (821) 555-1212
Email: Daisy'[email protected]
Identifying marks: Heart shaped spot on her tail, one eye black spot, one eye white. Wearing
a green collar. She needs medicine right away, family misses her. Or She is very shy, please do not approach.
Last seen: Corner of Fifth St & Elm, Our City, State on Jan 12th, 8:00 a.m.
Call (821) 555-1212
Email: Daisy'[email protected]
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All Rights Reserved. Permission is given for the reader to download and print one copy for personal use.
Any other use requires permission of the author.
