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Hi there!
Good news our cat came home last night.
Very thankful to have him back.
JThanks again for EVERYTHING.
Sherron
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Hi Debbie
Jack is now safe at home after being
turned in to an animal shelter nearly 200 km from home!
The animal shelter did scan for Jack's
chip, although they also had a lost dog report on him that we had
just updated that afternoon. It was the lost dog report that
originally prompted them to call us and say "We think we have your
dog", and when I called them back the following morning they were
able to tell me that they had scanned him and confirmed his
ownership.
The family who had originally picked up
our dog 11 days earlier had taken him on vacation with them and were
quite proud of the fact that they had such fun with him! Meanwhile,
we had been going through an awful time -- handing out flyers,
sticking up posters, losing sleep, crying, spending hours on the
phone and the internet. Some people have no idea, do they?
I came to realize during my search, that
vets in particular, do not scan a new dog (patient) for a
microchip. I had wondered about shelters, and as you said, wondered
if they might scan and miss the chip. It's a bit of a gap in the
system, isn't it? We had printed off 1100 flyers to send to every
Ontario vet, to request that they scan any new dog coming in who
matched Jack's description -- but we were so very lucky to get him
back before distribution of the flyers.
So all is well with our family again.
Jack made the front page of the our local newspaper. I was
interviewed on one of our local radio stations, and was able to
remind pet owners to have their pets chipped, and to keep their
contact information up to date. The family who had taken Jack
called me, and I offered to pay the adoption fee for a dog from the
shelter, as they had been planning to adopt Jack! So, another dog
now has a new home -- one less dog in the shelter.
Thank you so much for all your help.
It's nice to know that there is a support system of people like you
who can help and understand during such a difficult time.
Regards,
Jenny
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My dog has been FOUND.
Your website instructions on how to find a lost dog were very helpful to me. I e-mailed everyone in my contact list with an attachment photo (including all the places you suggested such as the animal shelters and road crews (nasty but necessary) – and asked them to forward my e-mail to everyone in their contact list. In the end someone had seen him wandering and called the locale Humane Society who picked him up and kept him over the (long) weekend.
Thank you so much for your help Denise
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| Thanks everybody for your help and searching all over
the placed for Flossy. She now remained at the pound until Saturday afternoon! Sincerley yours truly, Joanne Been two full month without her! |
| Debbie, I just wanted to send you a quick email to notify you that Angus has been returned to us. All of your good advice certainly paid off. I would like to thank you for all your concern and support. Ashley |
| Hi Debbie Good news - Morgan is now home! Our neighbour called to let us know. We posted signs with pictures. For a few days now we have been getting calls from people sighting her. My neighbour even saw her but she would not approach as we feared. But by putting food at the locations she was seen caused her to return to the same spot a couple of times. It did the trick and she didn't go far then. Vet is checking her tomorrow and she is going to be cleaned at home from burrs, mats etc. Thank you for all the help and encouraging words. Especially for having the website available. Egon |
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Thanks, Debbie
You've been a wealth of ideas, that I
may not otherwise would have thought of under this time of stress.
Thank-you for that. I find I am unable
to concentrate on NOTHING else, except getting her back somehow.
Great idea about the kids, as soon as
they are back in school I will do just that.
UPDATE:
Good news, HE IS HOME.... Thank
you so much for everything!!
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| Dear Debbie: Thank you for your compassionate letter.
I just want to let you know what I have done. I put flyers in everyone
in our subdivisions mail boxes, even up and down the highway and the
next subdivision over as well. I have driven everywhere shaking a box
of food and have posted flyers on all the mailboxes that do not have
rural mailboxes. I have driven up and down all local roads not hoping
but not hoping to find her in a ditch. I have taken a rake and moved
all the bushes in the local subdivision that maybe she was injured and
crawled under something. I have asked all the neighbours to look in
sheds etc. We have a system where we trap our cats if they scoot out
the first door and anyone responsible gets her from the garage. That
way she goes no where but as far as the garage. Someone must have been
visiting and let her into the garage and when my son came home, it's
mostly his cat, he opened the door at 10 p.m. and she scooted out. When
she first gets out, she won't come to you, but then always comes back in
an hour or so. I went looking at 11 p.m. but it was strangely quiet. I
called my son, because I knew he would be concerned. He came home and
looked and looked. No avail. We stayed up all night. Another cat in
our subdivision went missing the same night. I put 4 ads in the local
papers and have notified all the pounds and animal rescues as you know.
I just pray she returns. I am heart sick. They are like my kids except
they don't talk back. I appreciate your advice and another lady called
me to tell me that you helped her find her cat just a few doors away.
Thank you again. Barb |
| Hi there I hope your vacation is is going well and that you are finding time to relax!! I am THRILLED to report that literally 2 weeks to the hour we recovered Noush on our nightly scouring of the neighbourhood. He was found one block up from us and we were focusing our search efforts there after a sighting of him reported by a friendly neighbour. He is SKINNY and a little dirty but besides that great and a total lovebug....he won't leave our sides at all now. Thank you for all your useful tips and advice. Sincerely, Chantale |
| I just want to say a heartfelt thanks for the article
about finding a lost, indoor-only cat. I was searching to hell and gone all over our neighborhood all day for our lost cat, Thumpie, before I read your article that told how indoor cats stay close and hide. I carefully followed your instructions about searching the nooks and crannies in our yard while shaking a bag of his favorite Whisker Lickins. He only responded when I was within about five feet of his overnight hiding spot. The sound was so faint that I was sure I was hearing things. He was wedged deep inside a big thicket of brush and brambles and was very hesitant to come out. It was a moment I will never forget. My wife and I are very relieved and happy to be reunited with a much loved pet, and it is thanks to your excellent article. It was exactly as you said. Matt B |
| Hello, I'd like to emphatically thank you for your article Finding a lost cat. Yesterday we noted our 2 year old grey cat Silver was missing from our home. Being an entirely indoor cat we searched through our house top to bottom, to no avail. We surmised that she must have gotten outside when we went to the drive-in, which in itself was unusual and unexpected as she's always been too terrified to set foot outside our front door. I did a google search for "finding a missing indoor cat" and your article came up. After reading it i took a look around outside, many of our neighbours have low sitting decks and various likely hiding spaces, so I began to canvas neighbours and ask their permission to check under their decks and sheds. Low and behold, two doors down, under a rather large raised shed with a boat against the side of it, two big green eyes stared back at me. We found our cat. Very true to your article she would NOT move with any amount of verbal coaxing or bribery with food and catnip. It took me pushing her with a broom and my wife grabbing her when she was forced within reach to get her out from under the shed. Without your article we likely would have waited for a sign of her return, which judging by her determination to stay under that shed, may not have come about. Again, thank you for your article, it's brought our cat home to us. Clint S Cat lover. |
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I am very happy to say that Hunter is back home. He had wandered onto a woman’s property were she fed him and called animal control who then picked him up. I’d lie to thank you for all your help. It has been greatly appreciated.
Efraim P
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Hello Debbie
Bandit is back
home!!!!!
With the help of like minded
people like you he was
spotted with the aid of one of the
flyers that were all over .
He is now home safe, looking a
little haggart but home.
God Bless and thank you
for everything.
Danny
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| Debbie, We found Harley and Dozer!!!! On Friday June 25, we went to the Humane Society (for the 4th time) and although they were not there, they received a call 5 minutes before we arrived that a man had them since Monday night and was keeping them at his house until he found the owners because he didn't want them to get seperated at the shelter. We went to his house and it was them!!!! They were very well taken care of and we could not be happier. Thank you for all your helpful tips and concern. We now have the happy task of taking down all of our flyers and contacting those that we originally notified! This just goes to show that there are still some really great people out there and you should NEVER give up hope!!!! Teresa |