09-11-2014, 07:35 AM
(09-10-2014, 11:25 AM)Catherine Wrote: She had travelled a fairly long distance as well so it would do well to send the lost dog information out further that you expect the dog can travel. Maybe someone took her home and she left them trying to find he way back to her people.
Yes that's so true. Sometimes a dog can be stolen, driven to entirely different area, then dumped, or escapes. It's always wise to check over a large area as well as the place the dog was first lost.
In the UK there is a lost dogs website called "DogLost" (http://www.doglost.co.uk) and it includes lost dogs over the whole country. But it is long hard work checking and re-checking the 'lost' pictures, with those descriptions on the 'found' page. There are so many new ones each day.
(09-10-2014, 11:25 AM)Catherine Wrote: Maybe some day there will be a lost pet registry that can seek out pictures of lost pets and compare them to shelter dogs. Od course it would be best to check the shelters in person. It would be good to take a special picture of your dog that can be used if it gets lost.
That would be an excellent idea. I hope something like that is developed. I guess it would be time consuming for shelter staff, but sounds like a good solution, and could even ease the overcrowding problem if it worked out.
(09-10-2014, 11:25 AM)Catherine Wrote: Of course micro chipping is still the best way to find a lost pet. It is becoming much more available so soon lost pets will have a better chance of coming home.
Microchipping is definitely the best way. All stray animals are scanned at shelters, as far as I know. And it would also help in the case of a stolen dog, if the microchip data didn't match the person's details who brought the dog into a vet, for example. Now what would be great, is if every vet would automatically scan a new pet for all clients on their registry!
