Lost Cat Poster

People who’ve lost or found a pet can register it here & even print a poster.

http://www.petlynx.net/portals/lostnfound/

This site is interesting as it aims to help reduce the rate of euthanasia of adoptable pets using an automated global recovery system.

“Hundreds of times a day, [their] search engine automatically finds matches for the lost and found pets admitted to shelters, clinics, emergency hospitals, pounds, the general public and pet families. [It’s] the fastest growing provider of recovery services in North America.”

I think it’s very helpful that Susan mentioned Missing Pet Partnership. They’re a non profit group that’s helped to reunite hundreds of pets with their worried owners. They have excellent, behavior-based search, recovery, and prevention tips. Most cat owners don’t know how or where to search for their lost cats!

“Founder Kat Albrecht is a former police officer-turned-pet-detective who is pioneering the science of finding lost pets. She has trained search dogs to locate missing people, criminals, physical evidence, and lost pets. “She has written two books so far.

Her blog, bio, etc. are available at http://katalbrecht.com/

“Missing Animal Response (MAR):
A Paradigm Shift to Reduce Shelter Kill Rates”

by Kat Albrecht, Missing Pet Partnership

This is part of the no-kill solution,
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If cat advocates on PoC want to help cats in their own communities, help educate people on how to get as many lost cats reunited with their owners as possible.

Years ago when my Sammy was lost I made posters and put them up all over town. Mostly at intersections and in my neighborhood. I did get calls from people who saw him. Mostly children but hey the posters worked and I did find him. aT LEASst by people calling I knew the inevitalble hadnt happened to him and he was still alive.

I think the larger size poster as Susan suggests is particularly useful in the USA where people use their car more often.

This is a really good page to have so accesible, it’s the kind of information you don’t want to need but anyone who is in the horrible position of having their cat go missing will find the posters and the advice from both Michael and Susan invaluable. Thanks to you both. I’m going to bookmark this page in case I can pass it on to others.

Thank you so much Susan for a very useful comment. I have made a link out of the URL you provided.

The poster you refer to is too large for printing so will have to be done using stencils or some other method so I won’t do a template for that!

Michael, I help with a local lost & found pet registry and an excellent resource we give everyone is the Missing Pet Partnership website. Here is their page for making a lost poster:

Recovery Tips – Posters

A few insights:

1. Make a POSTER, not a sign, so everyone sees it driving by (the kind people make for Garage Sales).

2. Use brightly colored poster board to get attention.

3. Post at intersections and along telephone poles. If no telephone poles, use plastic ties to attach to stop signs.

4. MOST IMPORTANT: Make your phone number as large as the “LOST” words so people don’t have to stop their car to read it. Many won’t stop even if they have seen the pet wandering to get a number if it isn’t big enough to see from their car.

5. Make Lost Fliers to put in neighbors mailboxes, post at shelters, vet offices, pet stores, groomers, community bulletin boards (church, schools), and give them to everyone who visits the area – mail, garbage, school bus driver, etc.