Thank you for taking care of the lost pet you have found. Below is a list of options to assist you in locating the family of the lost pet. If the animal has identification, contact the owner. Identification comes in many forms, so please check the animal thoroughly for a tag, tattoo or microchip. You can bring an animal to most shelters and veterinary hospitals to scan the animal for a FREE Microchip Scan. We do allow lost pet listings on our Buffalo HotSpots Garage Sale Group with an audience of 23,000+ local residents. Please only list it once there and is allowed to be bumped once a day for a week straight then once every 7 days. Buffalo HotSpots Garage Sale Group: https://facebook/groups/BuffaloGarageSale Lost or Found a Cat? Call! Please call this central number with your Lost or Found Cat report*: 716-648-6423, ext. 2.(This is NOT an SPCA phone number, so please do not call with any SPCA questions.) ************************ Prevent It! Be sure all owned dogs and cats are identified by microchip and/orcollar with ID tag. IMMEDIATELY put a collar (break-away collars are available for cats) and ID tag on your cat, even if the animal is identifiedby microchip. Your chances of a reunion are multiplied considerably when a finder knows how to get in touch with you. ************************ Lost Pets of WNY 716 - https://facebook/groups/LostPetWNY WNY Lost & Found Pets - https://facebook/WnyPets Pet Alert of WNY - facebook/pages/Pet-Alert-of-WNY/273796975968125 Buffalo Craigslist Lost & Found – buffalo.craigslist.org/search/laf Erie County SPCA- Admissions - yourspca.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=345 Lost Dogs in Buffalo NY - fidofinder/lost-dogs.php?citystate=Buffalo%7CNY Lost Cats in Buffalo NY - tabbytracker/lost-cats.php?citystate=Buffalo%7CNY Google Search Lost Pets Buffalo NY - https://google/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&ie=UTF-8&rct=j#safe=off&q=buffalo+ny+lost+pets ************************ Top 10 Ways To Find Your Lost Pet: Below are ten top ways to begin the search for your lost pet. Thousands of pet owners who follow this advice from the SPCA enjoy happy reunions with their lost pets, sometimes right at the SPCA counter...other times, on the streets of their neighborhoods, at animal control facilities, even in the homes of friendly community members trying to help. Create fliers with a photo and brief description of your pet. Not small pieces of paper, either...large fliers, with large photo. Your announcement is an emergency, and must be treated that way. It needs to stand out from other informational fliers. Post the fliers ANYWHERE youre allowed... at stores, vet offices, groomers establishments, libraries, banks, gas stations, pet supply shops, etc. Be sure to include a phone number that is always available. Talk to people....your mail carrier, newspaper delivery person or anyone who is regularly in your neighborhood. Knock on doors and talk to your neighbors and ask whether they have seen your pet, and be sure they check with their children. Show them your pets photo. Leave your phone number with them. Check with local animal control officers to see if you’re pet is being held at a different animal facility. Please contact your city or town clerk for the phone number of your local animal control agency....but dont stop there. Its possible your animal ended up in another township and is being held by local animal control there. Consult all surrounding animal agencies. The search at sunrise.... make yourself visible in the neighborhood during the very quiet morning hours. If your animal is fearful, he or she might feel more secure, and might be more active, in the first hour or so of daylight. Shake boxes of dog biscuits or dry pet food. Make sure you have some of your pets food with you whenever youre searching...itll help lure your pet if he or she is scared. Place ads in newspapers...the large publications and the small, community ones. Utilize on-line pet finder Web sites, but dont let that take the place of you visiting shelters personally. Also, remember to check local newspaper lost and found ads to see whether a member of another community has found your pet. Dont forget the benefits of social media...post lost or found pet descriptions here: buffalo.craigslist.org/laf/. Look for your pet in unusual places around your home, including storm drains, ditches, etc. If youre searching for a cat, dont forget to look up! Your pet may not have gone far, and may even hear you calling, but might be too afraid to come out of...or down from...hiding. Lure your pet home with scents. Leave his or her favorite food outside in a dish (if its a moist food, microwave it first to increase the scent). Put out your pets favorite blanket, a litter box, even a pet bed. An animals sense of smell is much more powerful than a humans; its not unusual for an animal to pick up a scent from a distance. And make sure youre watching! It wont be of much help if your pet, or some other animal, enjoys dinner on the patio and then scampers away without you knowing it! Dont let phone calls give you a false sense of security! You and others who know your pet need to personally visit the SPCA shelters and other animal shelters on a daily basis. Do not simply call these shelters and ask them to check on whether your pet is in the building. Ten different people might describe your pet ten different ways...only you know which pet is yours. Set up a schedule of the people who will help you and the places theyve agreed to visit. Some animals dont go far...others do. Although the door-to-door street search is best carried out near home, dont neglect visiting animal shelters in all surrounding neighborhoods. Its possible your pet was picked up by a good Samaritan, transported, and then ran off again. Phone calls will help, however, if you call veterinary clinics and emergency animal hospitals. Think about it...if someone finds an injured, stray animal, the first place he or she might take it is a veterinary clinic. Call and ask if theyve seen your pet. Dont just call once...call every day. Very often, the people on the other end of the line will give you names and numbers of other places to call, to make your search even more thorough. Talk to dog walkers in your neighborhood and in surrounding areas. Buffalo boasts an effective and supportive dog walking network. They know instantly when theres a new dog on the block, especially when the dog is alone. They even notice cats that are new to the neighborhood (or should we say, their dogs notice the cats...!). These animal-lovers also communicate on a regular basis. Find these groups of people and give them copies of your fliers. They really do care if you find your dog or cat. Keep up the search. Don’t give up after just a few days, or after a week. Dont even give up after two weeks. SPCA staff members have witnessed thousands of pet/owner reunions, and many took place months after the pet was originally lost. Hundreds of factors could contribute to the delay in the reunion...way too many to list, of course. Take our word for it. Dont become discouraged too quickly.
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