What to Do If You Have Lost Your Pet
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If you have lost a pet, try to stay calm and focus on an effective plan to help find your missing animal.
Search your neighbourhood thoroughly, and be sure to check bushes, shrubs, under decks, etc. - lots pets usually don't go far. Call your pet's name and listen closely when around garages, sheds and other structures where a scared animal might hide. Animals, especially cats, are curious and may find themselves locked in a neighbour's garage or shed.
Search your neighbourhood thoroughly, and be sure to check bushes, shrubs, under decks, etc. - lots pets usually don't go far. Call your pet's name and listen closely when around garages, sheds and other structures where a scared animal might hide. Animals, especially cats, are curious and may find themselves locked in a neighbour's garage or shed.
- Don't forget to check garbage and recycling bins as well.
- Get as many people to help as possible so that you can cover more ground in a shorter period of time.
- File a report with the Regina Humane Society lost and found (949-7770), with a complete description of the animal and the area of city where it went missing. Check in person at the shelter often since they have so many animals.
- Post the information on-line at Petlynx - an online database of lost and found pets.
- Place a lost ad in The Leader-Post classifieds (522-7355), Used Regina, and Kijiji, and offer a reward for the safe return of your pet. The longer you run the ad the better.
- Canvas your neighbourhood with posters, covering as wide a radius around your area as possible. The poster should include a picture and description of the animal, and mention a reward.
- Place posters up at local stores in your area.
- Talk to your mail carrier and newspaper delivery person or anyone else that is regularly in your neighbourhood and ask them to watch for your pet.
- When you leave the house, leave your pets favourite food in a dish or put something with your pet's scent on it, such as a blanket. Animals have a much stronger sense of smell and they can smell it from a distance.
- It is very important to visit the local animal shelter/humane society as often as possible to look for your pet. Shelters are very busy and simply supplying a description of your pet - or even a tattoo number may not be enough. It could take days before shelter are able to connect you with your pet via the tattoo number.
