admin     2013年3月13日 23:52

(1) Do not waste any time, begin your search as soon as you notice that the companion animal is missing.

 (3) Ask everybody: security guards, cleaning crew, neighbors, children, mail carriers, passersby. Show them a photo of your pet. Even if they have not seen him, they may be willing to keep their eyes open. If you are in an area with more local Chinese residents, see if you can enlist assistance from a bi-lingual neighbor or have someone translate to the management and security of your building/complex, neighbors, etc. that your pet is missing.  Ask the building management for a taped video from the surveillance camera to see if anyone has picked up the animal.

(3) If you lost a dog, try to find the local police contact for your residential area. It is always possible that the police may have picked up your dog and placed it in the local government facility. Often, you only have 48 hours to retrieve the dog .If the local security in your building/complex speak only Chinese, find someone bilingual to assist you.

(4) Create a bilingual flyer with the pet’s photo, a brief description and your phone number. Distribute the flyers and post them on telephone poles in the area where you lost the pet. However, be very careful where you place such notices (and do not include your address, just your contact phone number). 

(5) Put a “lost pet” ad in many pet websites and forums and ask your Chinese friends to put a posting on the popular Sina and QQ weibo, or you can send an email to Best Friends China and we can help you post to our weibo.   Some of the housing communities have their own forums too where you may want to add a posting.  The ad should be titled “Lost Cat” or “Lost Dog” and should include your phone number, the date that the animal was lost, where the pet was last seen, and a brief description containing the animal’s name, breed, color, gender, age, and whether the pet was wearing a collar. Please note that, if you are offering a reward, you might want to leave out the information on the pet’s gender, in order to avoid scam artists.

(6) Contact veterinary hospitals and pet shops around and leave a photo of your pet. Ask each of them if any animal fitting your pet’s description has been brought in.

(7) Look around your neighborhood carefully (or wherever your pet was lost). Cats can wander into a neighbor’s basement or garage, fall asleep and accidentally get shut in.

(8) Late at night or very early in the morning, when the area is quiet, go to the place where your pet (especially a cat) was lost. Bring his favorite food and a flashlight. Call his name and wait to see if he shows up. Try this repeatedly. Ask also the many nice locals who feed stray cats at fixed spots in the community: your hungry cat (and even dog) may show up there to get food.

(9) If your pet is an indoor cat who does not usually get out, place the litter box outside, where your cat may smell his own scent and recognize his home. (Do not clean it out!)

(10) Don’t give up! Persistence is often the key to finding a lost pet. Some animals have been found after months of being missing.

Please always make your dog a name tag with your contact number, and walk you dog on a leash. How difficult is that?

（Note: Patchy is also a rescued dog waiting for a forever home. 。http://www.bestfriendschina.org/en/pet/499/）