Recently my dog went missing after the kids left a backyard gate open.  For eight years she has always worn a collar and tags for her identification.  Well her tags had somehow come off, unbeknownst to me.  So now what?  Besides slight panic and hysterics I had no idea at first what to do.  My friends helped with great suggestions;  put an ad on Craigslist, call the local 24 hr vet clinic, go to the animal shelter, post fliers.  Thank goodness friends can think for you in the middle of an emergency!  While calling and speaking with so many helpful people,  I came across another resource, the MissingPetPartnership.org

Missing Pet Partnership is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to reuniting lost companion animals with their owners/guardians.  Their website offers behavior-based lost pet recovery tips and referrals to lost pet services. They operate the first-ever volunteer lost pet search-and-rescue team (in Seattle, WA) that offers cutting edge lost pet recovery techniques like pet detectives with search dogs, lost dog protests, window tagging to market lost dogs in a community, and motion activated wildlife cameras with feeding stations to detect and capture displaced cats.

When one of the volunteers, Jim, from Seattle returned my phone call,  he informed me that he has a black lab that helps find lost animals by tracking their scent.  Wow, I never knew!  Here is a video tape of a blood hound tracking a lost dog by scent and in the end, the dog is reunited with it’s owner.

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Luckily when Jim called me back, I already had good news to share that my dog and been recovered.  12 hours of not knowing where my little Biscuit was felt like a huge emergency.  Hopefully you can pass on this information to anyone that is in need for Pet Rescue.

Jerrod with Hometask and Freggies was there at the precious moment I first got Biscuit back in my arms…oh a happy day!!  Thank you to Michele from Vino Bello for driving the Seahurst neighborhood.  Thank you to Burien Walgreen’s for printing a picture on demand, thank you to Jerrod for offering free printing services for my fliers, thank you to Staci Braun for bringing her kids over with their bikes to comb the neighborhood and thank you to the neighborhood boy who took my fliers to pass out and was the one that gave the flier to the right person that knew where Biscuit was.

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