GreySave - If Your Greyhound is Lost

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If your greyhound has become lost, immediately begin following the steps below. For ways to prevent your greyhound from getting loose, go to Preventing Runaways.

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.

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