lost pets.
If you are ever separated from your pet, how will you be reunited? No, I'm not referring to the grandiose vision of you and your pet running across an open field and falling into each other's grasp. Although this idyllic image sounds great, a more likely scenario is a trip to a veterinary hospital or shelter facility to pick up your pet after tags, collar, or microchip has facilitated his identification. My perspective comes from having helped lost pets reunite with their owners on innumerable occasions in my clinical practice. Good Samaritans bring in misplaced cats or dogs, sometimes having the outward appearance of being healthy and sometimes obviously injured. In nearly every ...
A family in Pomona, Calif. reunited with their dog after being apart for 6 years. Owner April Allen found her dog, Princess, thanks to Princess' microchip. Six years ago, Princess escaped out of a hole in the Allens' backyard. Princess was gone two hours before anyone realized that she was missing. The Allens posted fliers all over their neighborhood in hopes of finding Princess. Eventually, the family gave up, believing Princess to be forever lost until they received a phone call six years later. More Bichon Frises: ...
nanashi03, YouTube "I have everything in the world now." It's been a nightmarish year for natural disasters here in the States and abroad. It helps to find kernels of hope amid the despair. That's what Judy Pugh was looking for among the ruins of her home in tornado-ravaged Tuscaloosa. The local news had come to the rubble that used to be Pugh's house to report the story of how her life was saved when she became trapped under a collapsed wall. But less concerned about her own brush with death, Pugh's thoughts were with Katie, her cat who was lost in the twister. The cat not being the story--there was probably no chance that it had survived, after all--meteorologist Ted McInerney talked to ...
File photo. Credit: Dan Kitwood, Getty Images Here at Paw Nation we're always amazed at stories in which a missing pet is found weeks or months later, but usually these incredible stories are about a found dog or cat -- not a more exotic pet, like, say, a parrot. But that's what happened in Liverpool, England, when Jack, an Amazon parrot, flew away from his home and ended up spending the freezing winter in a chicken coop. The Herald Sun reports that Jack went missing in late November when his owner, Jerry Williams, forgot the parrot was on his shoulder and Jack flew out an open door. Williams and his wife, Irene, told the Herald Sun that they frantically searched for Jack, distributing ...
Hans Pama, Flickr One out of three pets will get lost at some point in their lives. This statistic strikes fear in all pet owners, but there are services and strategies to boost your odds of finding your dog or cat. From simple to high tech, here are 10 things you can do to help bring a missing pet home safely. 1. Collar and ID Tags. Only 2 percent of cats and 15 percent of dogs without tags or microchips will be reunited with their owners, states the American Humane Association. So make sure your cat or dog is wearing a collar and identification tag that bears your current contact information, including phone number. 2. Microchips. Many different companies manufacture pet microchips, ...
Missing Pet Partnership Got a dog that's nuts for cats? You might want to train it to put its feline obsession to good use. The Seattle-area-based Missing Pet Partnership (MPP) trains dogs and their owners to be first-rate detectives, sniffing out lost pets. When it comes to cat-detection, "we pick dogs that naturally get hyper-excited and wiggly when they detect the scent of a cat," MPP founder Kat Albrecht tells Paw Nation. Albrecht, who began her career as a police officer working with search-and-rescue bloodhounds, would use her own search dog to track lost pets in her spare time. Eventually her side project grew into the Missing Pet Partnership. Not every cat-lovin' dog is up to ...