FIRST, IT’S IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT PANIC.
AND, IT SEEMS COUNTERINTUITIVE BUT IT’S IMPERATIVE THAT YOU DO NOT CALL OUT FOR YOUR DOG, CHASE, OR FOLLOW HER.
IF YOUR DOG IS SKITTISH, SHE IS LIKELY TO GO INTO PANIC MODE AND WILL SEE EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE AS A THREAT.
BEGIN WITH THE FOLLOWING: GIVE WESS A CALL AT 720-317-7550!
WE WILL DISCUSS IF IT IS SAFE TO DO A WAGON WHEEL SCENT STATION AND EXACTLY WHERE TO DO IT. PLEASE DO NOT DO THIS UNLESS WE HAVE SPOKEN. WESS MAPS OUT EVERYTHING AND WILL DECIDE IF IT IS SAFE TO SET UP A WAGON WHEEL SCENT STATION OR TO SIMPLY PLACE ONE SCENT STATION IN A SAFE AREA.
PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT THIS WITHOUT GUIDANCE AS YOU DO NOT WANT TO LEAD YOUR DOG INTO HARMS WAY SUCH AS INTO HIGH TRAFFIC AREAS OR WHERE PREDATORS ARE.
This is what you need to do and ASAP. The first 72 hours are absolutely critical. So, making sure everything is done asap will give you the best chance at a successful rescue.
You need to set up a wagon wheel scent station. Do it where she was last seen. You need to keep her in that area.
Do it ASAP with dirty laundry, her bed, favorite toys.
The “spokes” of the wheel are scent trails leading to the hub (the main scent station.) If she has a backyard with a fence leave toys and owners dirty laundry and a scent trail into the yard.
Cut up a dirty sheet, rub it in all your dirty parts, pee on it, yes, I said that, pee on it and rip it into three inch strips. Tie them onto small sticks and stick them into the ground. Place them every 75 feet or so to make your north south east and west scent trails leading to your home.
If you have a fenced in yard, leave the gate open and create a scent trail leading into the yard.
- Is she chipped? Notify the chip company and update the info.
- Does she have a regular walking route or places you frequent together that he may naturally gravitate to?
- Post on all social media lost pet sites. Post on 24petconnect and pawboost and Craigslist.
- Post in all lost sections at all shelter websites.
- Put up fliers in the neighborhood
- place large neon signs at major intersections
- make postcards of the fliers and canvass the neighborhood, supermarkets, local shops and give one to your local mail carrier.
- check to see if neighbors have ring cameras.
- Check under neighbor’s porches and window wells.
- Tag your car! https://www.missinganimalresponse.com/tag-your-car/?fbclid=IwAR3beyOLoOVjeOM1fLjgsIQCDEbsL0JTaUYStu8X0cP1xZHBdb3LaOWQf7o_aem_ATGbQdMPnV0mjsITN5wt8nYCYfA3vYNUIKAya17ZXZSl2_Tp044AO8jzGEj1BnzO13M
Also, please view and share this short video in your post on calming signals for panicked dogs. All my volunteers use this technique in search and rescue.
https://youtu.be/cmiZzB643isl
Please watch this short video on calming signals for panicked dogs. He is in flight/fright mode and may not respond to you immediately.
