Prevention & Steps to Finding a Lost Dog

What to Do if You Lose Your Dog

Call every shelter and humane society within a ten-mile radius to start.
Get out and start canvassing the neighborhood.
If possible, have some start looking while the other starts making calls, get many people involved.
Post fliers throughout the area your dog last was as well as in stores, veterinarian offices, shelters and anywhere you can.  Use waterproof ink and color pictures of possible. Include a description as well as a reward.  However, beware of scams where people will say they found your pet and insist on the money before returning it.  There are sick people who use these crises to profit!
Keep a list of all the places called and call them daily at first.  Expand to several miles or more around where the dog was last seen.  Dogs can travel quite a distance – even more if they are actually stolen.
Contact vets and see if anyone has recently brought in a new dog that resembles yours.
Do not give up.  Sometimes pets can be recovered weeks after loss.

Now, when your pet is found, make certain you remove all fliers and contact all places you called so they can remove the information.