If you have lost your pet ...

Call and visit the local shelters daily:
     Woman's Humane Society- 215-750-3100
     3839 Richlieu Ave. Bensalem Pa. 19020

     Bucks County SPCA - 215-794-7425
     1665 Street Rd. Lahaska, Pa. 18931

Report all lost and found incidents to the Bucks County radio room - 215-945-3100
     (all Bucks County police are dispatched from this number)

Fill out a lost and found pet alert at www.buckscountyalive.com/lostpets.
Take a picture and save as a JPEG file to attach to these alerts.

Contact WBCB radio station to ask to have lost pet ad - 215-949-1490.

Place a lost or found ad in local newspapers such as the Bucks County Couries Times, The Intelligencer, etc. Leave ads in for several weeks.

Be persistent as many pets may not be found immediately.

Leave telephone messages at all veteranarian offices within a 25-mile radius.

Ask both adults and children if they have seen the pet.

Place online classifieds for a lost/found pet on Craig's List and PetFinder.com.

Contact local vets offices, animal emergency centers, etc.

Post signs at bus stops and eating establishments (pets will be looking for food and water). Include 7 -11 and WAWA's.

Make lost posters, using bright colored glow poster board with ziplock glad bag cover for rain. Post securely with staples.

If micro-chipped, contact micro-chip company.

If lost pet is a cat, continue indefinately to leave Have A Heart traps in vicinity in which cat last seen.

Tape posters on vehicle windows (gets attention from everywhere the vehicle is driven.)

Notify the mail carrier, UPS drivers, Waste Management drivers.

Use emotional trigger wording such as "please help me ""help us find our much loved dog" "family is grieving", etc.

When searchinq...

Keep family scent items outside residence and take with you when on a search.

Pets may not recognize owners; they have been running and scared and may be disoriented, hungry, thirsty and tired.

Pets usually are scared and hide during the day and run at night, so search in PM hours as well.

Look for evidence on search such as collars, tags etc.

Call for pet while on the search.

Assign someone to check along roadways where pet may be lying injured.

Map out sightings, calls, times, and locations - this helps to figure out the pets logic.