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About Lost Dog Awareness Day

United States
EVENT NAME:
Dog, Lost Dog Awareness Day
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Animals Fish Insect & Birds , Family & Friends
United States
Dates Active:
Begins: Apr 23, 2024
Ends: Apr 23, 2024
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More dogs go missing on July 5 than any other each year, according to PawBoost, most likely due to the fireworks and festivities the night before. Because of this, Paw Boost has established National Lost Dog Awareness Day to highlight pet safety and help owners reunite with lost pets.

A personal note from Laura for anyone whose pet goes on a walkabout:

On December 6, 2017, my cat Miss Zoe left our new home in South Philadelphia as I brought in the garbage cans. We had just moved in two weeks prior, and she had endured a traumatic two months moving to the United States from the Middle East and living in AirBnB until I could secure a new home. A desert stray when I rescued her, she found herself lost and caught in the snow in a major US city 8,000 miles away from anything she knew. Every night and early morning, I went looking for her, calling her name, shaking treats, papering the neighborhood with posters, working NextDoor and Paw Boost, and visiting shelters and vets. It was excruciating.

Miss Zoe is chipped and was wearing a collar with a tag. She also had a GPCats collar (GPS) in the Middle East, but it wasn't working in the US. Seventeen days later, I received a call from a neighbor three blocks down and two over. My neighbor recognized her from the posters I put up around the neighborhood and the forwarded PawBoost Alerts that people featured on their social media pages.

Services like PawBoost notify the local vets and shelters, create posters for you and post your notice on Facebook to their network of rescuers. Still, as a pet parent, you must walk the blocks and talk to people. Most lost pets stay within a half mile to a mile of your home. It can take months, and you can't give up. Miss Zoe is a shy cat. Even with cat treats, it took time to coax her out; she thanked me by shredding my hands and arms with her teeth and claws as I wrestled to get her into the carrier. That earned me a blood-soaked trip to Urgent Care. In retrospect, I recommend thick gloves, like those for dishwashing. All Zoe needed to go spazz-cat was to see the carrier she'd occupied for an 18-hour flight! At least a dog will walk on a leash.

The other tool I used was Nextdoor.com, which was critical in keeping my spirits up and getting everyone in the vicinity looking for Miss Zoe. She became infamous in our Point Breeze neighborhood. Several weeks after I found her, people would stop me to ask if she'd been found or wave at us when they saw her sitting in the front window.

Today Miss Zoe (and her brother Sinatra) is happy and home (in fact, she's sleeping on my desk beside me right now—snoring). Use this day, Lost Dog Awareness Day, to familiarize yourself with the tools available should your pet go on a walkabout. If you know what to expect and what to do, you'll significantly increase the chances of a happy ending.

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Sep 08, 2023

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