Naperville, IL Lost Male Dog, Snowball Is Missing

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Jill K.

3 months ago

Lost Dog Advice ❤️🐾 ❤️ It's beneficial to have a PHONE NUMBER at the top of your posts so you can be contacted immediately if your dog is sighted by someone. (Use Google Voice if you don't want to use your personal.) ➡️ Add DO NOT CHASE and CALL IMMEDIATELY if sighted. You don't want strangers following (on foot or in a car), calling out/for, whistling at or making eye contact with your scared dog. Call local police departments & animal control offices ASAP to notify them your pup is loose. 🧦 At home and where last seen, put out scent items: i.e. pup's bedding and your dirty laundry like socks, towels, and pillowcases. 🍔🥓🌭🍗 💧Also put out some bowls with warm, smelly, enticing food and water to help attract them. Best monitored by a camera. (Replenish twice a day before dawn and dusk). For the first few hours, quietly and calmly look for your pup. Talk in a normal voice if walking. Sing softly or say the ABCs. Sitting in your car (lights off if at night) close to where lost - with the windows open and heat blasting - may help guide your pup back to it, which is a fantastic source for scent. Always have a leash or slip lead with you to properly secure if found. 🐾 If you see your pup, a safe option is to LURE. Have smelly, warm food ready to use, like cheeseburgers, chicken, or cut up hot dog pieces. Be patient ❤️ 🛑 If your dog isn't home safely in the first few hours, it can quickly go into survival/flight mode. After the day quiets down is often when dogs decide to follow their scent and circle back to the location lost from on her/his own. Unfortunately, scared dogs that are being heavily "searched for" (i.e. search parties, screaming their name or running after them) can in turn make very detrimental decisions - like running into traffic or traveling farther away from where originally lost from. 🤫 For her/his safety, keep any sightings private. It's very important to ask and write down and log the answers to: 1. Time, date and exact location 2. Direction headed 3. Walking (good) or running (bad) 4. Can/did they get a video or pic to confirm if actually her/him. 💻 Post on Lost Dogs Illinois through petfbi . org. They will generate a flyer you can pass out to PD, Animal Control and shelters. ✴️ Alert residents about your lost dog, and to please check their cameras through: 1. Local neighborhood watch and lost pet pages/groups on Facebook. 2. RING Neighbors App (you don't need a Ring camera to use the app) 3. Nextdoor App 4. Citizens App ☎️ If microchipped, contact the chip company to flag the chip as lost ASAP. Confirm that the chip is properly registered to you (not where the chip was implanted or where your dog was adopted from) and your contact info is up to date. ***Many chips are unknowingly not registered properly or at all... 🚔 File a lost report with your local PD and Animal Control, and give them a flyer. Alert surrounding town PDs and ACs as well. Dogs can travel quickly!!! Alert everyone. Contact area shelters. Hand deliver a flyer to them. Check in person and monitor intakes online daily. 📢 FLYER, FLYER, FLYER! You need as many eyes looking as possible. Not everyone is on social media or follows these groups and pages to see your posts. They are the BEST TOOL you've got! Put on neon poster board so they stand out. Put the flyer in a sheet protector and tape it securely on all four sides with clear packing tape to the poster board. This will help protect them from the weather. ⬇️ Other ideas: 1. Put a sign up in your front yard. If the sign is up, neighbors and people passing by know she/he is still missing. 2. Give a flyer to local mail carriers, Fed Ex, Amazon, school bus drivers. 3. Put a flyer on your car window. 4. Driveway drops: put a mini flyer (print 4 on one letter size piece of neon paper and then cut them up) in a ziploc bag with pea gravel for weight. Drive and toss on to driveways like a newspaper. 5. Pass out the mini flyer to anyone out walking their dogs, pushing strollers, etc. She/he needs YOU to find her/him. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ DO THE WORK ❤ ❤ ❤ ‼️Be careful with scammers‼️They may contact you saying they have your dog and ask for six digit verification codes or money. Disclaimer: Every lost dog scenario is different, but this is a general guide that works for many of them ❤️

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