1. Please take responsibility to have your pet spayed or neutered. Animal Control has to eliminate hundreds of homeless animals each year due to overpopulation. Some of these animals are simply lost, wearing no I.D. tag, and the owners are never found.
2. Always make sure your pet is wearing a current I.D. tag. Having your pet micro-chipped is a great way to make sure that they can be traced back to you. Almost any vet can do this simple, inexpensive procedure. Keep a file with your pet’s license number, rabies certificate and a current photograph.
3. If you have a fenced yard, make sure the fence is escape proof. If you don't have or don't want a fence, you might consider invisible fencing.
4. If your animal is out-of-control, you might consider obedience classes.
What To Do If Your Pet Is Lost
1. Post your pet on the Nashville Pet Finders website.
2. Post flyers, with picture of animal, in your neighborhood, at local shopping centers, gas stations, and at local animal shelters. Use brightly colored paper, making sure you write large and legibly. Cover flyers in plastic sheets, if possible, to protect from the elements.
3. Visit local animal shelters daily. Don't just phone. With more animals than staff, it is easy for an animal to get overlooked. If you are not finding your pet in local shelters, try visiting shelters in surrounding counties, as you never know where the people that find your pet might take them. See our links page www.nashvillepetfinders.com/links/index.cfm for information on animal shelters in Davidson and Williamson County.
4. Place an ad in the lost and found pet section of one or more local papers.
5. A good person to ask about sightings of your pet in your own neighborhood is the mail delivery person, the garbage collector and children, who often see the same pets every day. Give them a picture of your pet.
6. If you think that your pet may not be able to find its way back home, such as in a recent move to a new neighborhood or town, then leave an article or two of clothing with your scent on it outside so your dog can pick up your scent and follow it back home.
Precautions
1. To insure your safety, never meet the potential
finder of your pet in a neighborhood that you are not comfortable
or familiar with. Perhaps bring another person with you or meet in
a safe, well-lit public place.
2. To avoid being the victim of a scam, never send money or leave
money in a place with promises of your pet being brought to you later.
Make sure you have your pet in your hands before handing over reward
money.
3. When the potential finder of your pet calls you on the phone, let
them describe your pet to you in detail, so as to be sure that it
is indeed your pet.
4. Stay alert to the new scams that are being circulated by visiting
this site
(ScamBusters.org) where scam alerts are posted on-line.
Donate Here by Credit Card! All donations made to Nashville Pet Finders are tax deductible and greatly appreciated!
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animal welfare issue, warns Executive Vice President of ASPCA Programs, Dr.
Stephen Zawistowski. As households across the country are caught in the economic
downturn, an estimated 500,000 to one million cats and dogs are at risk of
becoming homeless.
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