My dog ran away! what do i do?

Question

it was gone over night,in the morning it was not any where. i put up posters and searched the neighbourhood. but she's no where to be found. she is 1 year old, golden retriever,i took her collar off because she had a bath. she has a microchip and has been vaccinated. PLEASE HELP!!

Answer 1

Make sure your chip registration info is current any anyother registries he belongs to their contact info is current. Go to the shelter, post your flyer there and all the local vets, return to the shelter every three or five days whatever the state mandatory hold is in your area. Make sure the chip number is on the flyers you provide the shelter and vets. Post a lost dog ad on craigslist and keep deleteing/reposting to keep it fresh. Post an ad on k9alert do a search for lost dog registries, it's a longshots but some people do check these. Via luck and a chip I've been able to reunite a dog with it's owner 7miles accross a city of 200,000 3 months after it went missing.

Answer 2

Normally, a shelter or rescue will not give information over the phone regarding a dog and will ask you to come in. Because she has a microchip, your information is linked to her. If a shelter has a chip scanner, then most likely they would contact you, however I would check every shelter in your area.

Going outdoors and calling her name always helps, unless they have wandered too far from home. Is it possible she was stolen? It's not uncommon these days for a dog to be stolen to collect the reward that is usually offered on a flier. Going door to door with a photo asking if they've seen your dog can help. Your best bet however would be to fill out a lost dog report at your local animal control department and search any and all shelters in your general area. Good luck!

Answer 3

walk around calling her name, call up pounds, talk to the neighbors, ect. Just do everything you can to get her back. It's also good to have a box of bones to shake, and usually they'll come running.

Answer 4

Well its good the dog has a microchip.  Call shelters and vets offices, put up fliers around the area, and also if it has been a few days you can even put an add in the paper

Answer 5

Call area vets and shelters and tell them to keep an eye out. If a shelter or vet finds her, they should do a chip scan and will find the chip.  

Answer 6

First thing in the morning, you need to call and/or visit all your local shelters, pounds, and/or animal control offices.  It can sometimes take a day or so for them to get around to checking for a microchip so your best bet is to go in person, as your dog could be in quarantine and new, upfront office staff may not necessarily know about any new arrivals.  Also, contact retriever rescues if there are any in your area, as well as nearby vet offices.  

Next you will need to take your most recent picture of her and make a flier.  Be sure to add in the flier that the dog is on medication and desperately needs it to avoid serious illness.  Leave more than one phone number on the flier but do not give out your home address.  

You may also want to go door to door in your neighborhood with the flier.  This is not only a great way to find out if one of your neighbors took your dog, but also if someone has seen your dog in the last 24 hours.  Please be advised that if you are young, you should take a parent or guardian with you if you go door to door.

Good luck in finding her.

Answer 7

You need to call your local police, they keep turned in strays overnight and send them to animal control usually in the afternoon.

Call your animal control service, they ONLY hold dogs a certain amount of time (5 days here but I've heard as low as 3 days elsewhere) and see if they have her. Go down there to physically look, too, as some places keep lousy records and don't always know what dogs were brought in.

Phone the nearest 5 vet offices and ask if anyone brought in a golden retriever (on the off chance someone took her there after she was hit by a car).  Put up notices at the closest three grocery stores and at the nearest gas stations.

AND check your city's humane society in case someone took her over there and they didn't send her to animal control.  Leave a description with them for lost dog, and look at all the dogs in their holding area, as THEIR records may or may not be up to date on what they have on site in the holding cages.

Then keep checking the animal control and the shelters every two to three days.  She could be wandering and be taken in after you check there the first time.

I've taken three dogs in, and my sig. other took one to the police station at 2am, all dogs that were loose, with no id (no collars on two of them).  All were in good shape, with filed toenails and had obviously been taken care of, but were loose and very lost.

Also check with your police station about whether they've been getting reports of stolen dogs.  We had such a huge amount of dogs taken from backyards in Milwaukee this past December there was a news story about it to warn people. Even large dogs were disappearing--they were being resold as 'pets' for big bucks, used to help pit bulls learn to kill, or sent to labs.  Find out if your city has a stolen dog problem.  Hopefully you don't.