FINDING A LOST GREYHOUND
If your greyhound has become lost, immediately begin following the steps below. For ways to prevent your greyhound from getting loose, go to blog: Preventing Runaways.
1. Call for help
2. Search your neighborhood
3. Visit your local animal shelter
4. Advertise
Advertise in the papers. Continue it for several weeks at least.
5. Don't give up--keep looking
Leave a description of your pet and your name and phone number with as many people as possible.
Keep looking! Somewhere your pet is waiting for you
You should always have an identification tag on your pet with your phone number, as well as the GreySave tag. This is the only way the shelter can contact you. Don't take it off when he's inside the house, because he may slip out the door some day. The tags are the fastest way to get your dog back; most folks who find a dog will call the number so that you can pick him up.
1. Call for help
- Call GreySave: 866-473-9728 before you do anything else! If no one answers when you punch the button for “lost dogs” continue through the push button menu until someone answers. We check the answering machine regularly, so do leave a message! We will help organize a search team.
- Call the GreySave leaders on the Contact Us page until you get someone.
- Call your GreySave placement representative and your dog's foster home, or others you know in the group.
2. Search your neighborhood
- Ask adults you see on the street. Take small flyers with you with your phone number and GreySave's phone number that you can pass out.
- Post signs in the neighborhood on telephone poles, at the entrance to neighborhoods, near schools, in supermarkets, and in other public places. See below for signs that you can download and use.
- Get a "squawker" (a hunter's predator call) to use as you search. If your dog is frightened, he may have "gone to ground" in the bushes and not be visible.
3. Visit your local animal shelter
- Visit in person--don't just call! Animals are constantly coming and going, so the staff and volunteers there may not know what dogs they have when you call. And they may not be able to identify a greyhound and may write it in their records as something else.
- Check every part of the shelter, including the hospital room, quarantine section, female and male sections, even the cat room.
- Check back every third day.
- Look in surrounding shelters at least twice a week.
4. Advertise
Advertise in the papers. Continue it for several weeks at least.
5. Don't give up--keep looking
Leave a description of your pet and your name and phone number with as many people as possible.
Keep looking! Somewhere your pet is waiting for you
You should always have an identification tag on your pet with your phone number, as well as the GreySave tag. This is the only way the shelter can contact you. Don't take it off when he's inside the house, because he may slip out the door some day. The tags are the fastest way to get your dog back; most folks who find a dog will call the number so that you can pick him up.
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Lost
Recovered
Dead
Never found
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2005
169
67%
13%
19%
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2006
183
84%
5.5%
13.6%
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2007
261
82%
8.4%
10.3%
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How can you keep from becoming a part of these statistics? Note how people reported that their greys got loose: 33% said through open gates, and 26% said through open doors. 27 people said that their greyhounds got lost while being walked (as was true for the owner in the second article below) or let off-leash in a non-fenced area.
Now that we've got your attention, we urge yo to read the article below for ways that you can prevent this from happening to you and the greys who rely on your judgment.
Yard Warning & Lost Greyhound Signs
Click on the links below to download signs that you can post, in English and in Spanish, to warn visitors to close the gate behind them because there may be a greyhound in the yard.
• In English
• In Spanish
Now that we've got your attention, we urge yo to read the article below for ways that you can prevent this from happening to you and the greys who rely on your judgment.
Yard Warning & Lost Greyhound Signs
Click on the links below to download signs that you can post, in English and in Spanish, to warn visitors to close the gate behind them because there may be a greyhound in the yard.
• In English
• In Spanish
