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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.
Signs
Add your information and print them out.
These are RTF (Rich Text Format)
files that any word processor can read. Click below to download
the sign.
• Lost Greyhound
sign.
• Lost Greyhound flyers
(four to a page).
• Found Greyhound
sign.
Greyhound warning signs for yard gates:
• In English
• In Spanish
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