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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Lost dogs, found cats
Love your blog — so informative! I’ve not seen lost/found dog postings on your site, but thought I’d give it a shot. Just found these two little guys on Marathon Road and Marengo.
They are friendly — one has a collar with expired tags and no contact information; the other is without a collar. They are very friendly and we would rather not call the Baldwin Park Humane Society….
For more information, please call 626-398-9994 or 626-485-7062.
and they are cuties!
And in somewhat related news: one of the neighborhood cats (calico, no collar and no known ownership) has chosen our garage to birth five (count ’em, five) kittens. No, we don’t want to keep any. The kittens are still very young and feeding off Mom, but are grabbable when Mom’s not around. Mom is just nasty, and we’d rather not risk bites and scratches. We have left unanswered messages with animal control, but we’re looking for suggestions at Altadenablog World Headquarters as to how to handle this!
Evan Dorn said…
Oh, what cute pooches! A few suggestions for helping find their owners:
1) Take the dogs around to all the vets in the area. Check any lost postings on their noteboards (if they have one), and ask if the staff happens to recognize the dog. I’ve found the owners for two lost doggies because the vet recognized them.
2) Put up signs around the neighborhood … major intersections for about a half mile to mile radius … saying you’ve found a couple of dogs. Give generic descriptions and your phone number, but leave out some key piece of identifying information, like the color of the dog’s collar. When someone calls, ask for the missing piece of information to confirm ownership.
3) If you do call animal control, be sure to tell them where you found them: a block south of Woodbury, inside the border of Pasadena. The Pasadena Humane Society is a much, much, much better place for animals than the horrible county shelter in Baldwin Park. It’s also much closer, and has a better website for helping the pooches find their owners.
Monday, May 18, 2009 at 05:52 PM
Jess said…
Please put a collar and tag on your dog.
Two weeks ago a friendly pooch followed us home around Las Flores and Fair Oaks. With no tags, we had no choice but leash him up to our fence and call animal control. By the time Animal Control got there (we were at work) the pooch had chewed his way through the leash and was gone.
Lesson: Put tags on your dogs.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Altadenablog said…
Yes, please collar and tag (and microchip) your pets. A couple of years ago, one of the women in the neighborhood was going around distraughtly looking for her cat (in the process, trespassing and vandalizing property along the way — she was nailing wanted posters on our trees without permission, which also required venturing onto our property without permission!) The cat had no collar, tag, or microchip, because its owner was one of those who couldn’t bear to do anything to the cat that the cat didn’t want to do. She also didn’t keep the cat inside if the cat wanted to go outside. And we bet, as a result, the cat became coyote chow.
If you love your pet, you want to protect them, even if they don’t want to be protected. And they’re not going to tell anyone where they live, so they need ID at all times. Otherwise they will likely come to a bad end, at the shelter, under the wheels of a car, or by a coyote or cougar.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009 at 01:00 PM