It can be a traumatic experience both for you and your pet when a pet is lost.
Here are a few tips to help find your lost pet faster:
Contact local animal shelters and animal control agencies.
File a report with every shelter within a 50 mile radius of your home.
Call and visit the local shelters every day.
Provide agencies with an accurate description and a recent photo of your pet.
Don't wait for the agencies to call you; call them every other day until you find them.
Notify police if you think your pet was stolen.
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Pet Pointers
Lisa Chelenza shares a few helpful tips on how to find your lost pet.
 
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Search the neighborhood; ask neighbors or delivery people if they've seen your pet.
Post signs in grocery stores, your veterinarians office or traffic intersections.
Another good place to advertise is newspapers. Many newspapers will give you a lost and found ad for free for a week or at least a few days. Include a detailed description of your pet with sex, age, weight, breed, color and any special markings.
However, when you write up the descriptions, leave out one identifying characteristic, and ask the person that finds your pet to describe it.
Be wary of pet recovery scams. If people insist that you give them money or wire them money for the return of your pet, they might not really have your pet at all.
Pets can be adopted to other families or even euthanized if they are not found in time.
Don't give up your search. Animals that have been lost for months have been reunited with their owners.
Your pet has a much better chance to be reunited with you if they wear a collar and identification tags containing contact information.
Having your pet microchipped is an extra precaution that's well worth the money.
If you find a pet, try to find the owner, someone is probably missing them.
