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Companion Connection |
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What to do when your companion is lost |
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Contact Information: |
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Companion Connection P.O. Box 875 Elgin, TX 78621-0875 |
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Phone: 512-285-5620 Fax: 512-285-5614 E-mail: VillageRescue@gmail.com |
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"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated... I hold that, the more helpless a creature, the more entitled it is to protection by man from the cruelty of man." -Mahatma Gandhi- |
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· Post flyers with color pictures of your companion in your neighborhood, in convenience stores, near schools, etc. and veterinary clinics. · Contact local Animal Controls. · Call animal shelters in adjoining counties, including the private, no-kill shelters, and report your dog missing. · Contact area shelters. Physically go look at the companion animals there. Do not take someone’s word your companion is not there. · Physically look under sheds, decks, etc. Cats are usually on one side of your home or the other. They will not come when you call. YOU need to find THEM! · Keep water and food outside for them. · For cats, sprinkle the contents of their litter pan in the yard so they can pick up their scent. · Leave some of their bedding or your own clothes where he may find them. · Set a trap for him. He will be scared and may not come to you. · Place an ad in the local and surrounding newspapers. · Post to the Austin Pets Alive No Kill Handbill with your contact information, description of the pet, and location where he was lost. (http://www.austinpetsalive.org/get-pet-help/use-our-no-kill-handbill/ ) · Contact all area veterinary clinics in case the animal is left there or brought in for treatment. · If the companion is microchipped, make sure you contact the company you have the animal registered with to make sure all of your contact information is up-to-date. · Have the local neighborhood kids look for him. Offer them a reward (tell them to tell you if they see the animal but not to touch it). · Call the neighborhood school and ask if you can tack a poster to the bulletin board. Kids have sharp eyes and are likely to know if Ranger's around or if someone three streets over found him and doesn't know how to find you. · Don’t give up!!! You may not find your companion right away, and he is counting on you to find him. · Check out http://www.petrescue.com/library/find-pet.htm for more tips on finding your lost companion.
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Tips if you have found someone’s lost pet: Most stray animals are someone's companion—don’t keep an animal that you find without making a real effort to locate the guardian. Talk to neighbors and post signs all around the neighborhood as well as nearby veterinary clinics.
· Take the animal to a local veterinary clinic to be scanned for a microchip. If the animal has a microchip, the guardian can be contacted. · If you can keep the found pet temporarily, please call or contact 311 (for Austin) online to submit a Found Animal report. · If you bring a found pet to TLAC, please provide all the information you can about where and when the animal was found. · If you have found a stray companion animal and cannot bring it to TLAC yourself, contact 311. Animal Protection should be able to pick up the animal. |