Found after four and a half years

It certainly came as a surprise to one South Carolina family when they recieved a phone call from the Richland County dog warden that their beloved dog had been found some four and a half years after it escaped their house and yard. As it turns out the microchip implanted at the time of their adoption was the key to getting Angel home again. One more example that permanent identification is a benefit if your animal ever goes missing.

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PetLynx helps animal companions get home ... safe!


PetLynx turned out to be very successful for me as I found Oreo the very next night.  A lady had found him and posted it on PetLynx. Thank you very much for this site,  I didn't even know that it existed until my dog went missing.

    Sherry

I have PetLynx to thank for reuniting me and my pet! After three months of seemingly endless searching, within 5 minutes of posting her on PetLynx she was found! I was overjoyed with tears and was so happy to see my pet was safe. Thank you PetLynx and Calgary Animal Services. Without you I wouldn't have been able to find my cat :) .

   Kendra

Thanks to PetLynx I have my dog is now home safe and sound. I would like to thank you and your staff for a job well done. So, on behalf of Sheeba (my friend's dog which I lost) and myself, I'd like to thank all who helped with her safe return!

Pearl O.

Find out how PetLynx could help your pet get HomeSafe? Click here.

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

Tips to Keep Dogs HomeSafe

It is good to know what to do when you lose your dog ... but it is better to do your best to prevent your pet from getting lost in the first place!

Here are some valuable tips from PetLynx Corporation and the American Kennel Club:

Thank you! Gracias! Merci!

No matter how you say it ... these pet parents are simply thrilled to have found their animal companions! PetLynx was pleased to have played a role in their recovery. 

Our lost cat has been FOUND! Thank you so much for your site. You are doing a wonderful job of reuniting lost pets with their owners.

   Irene L., Edmonton

I am letting you know that my cat Oscar came home a few weeks ago and is safe and sound. This is a fantastic service and thank you for having kept me posted with possible cats that were a match to my cat.  Keep up the great work.

   Sincerely, Maria

 

My cat showed up on Saturday night after being missing for 16 days. He was none the worse for wear but it took a few years off my life though! Thank Heavens he's  back ... and thank you for your help!

   Susan D.

I used PetLynx today to help reunite a stray dog I found with it's owner. Thank you for providing this service.

   Paul D.

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Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

Dixie is HomeSafe in Regina

Dixie, a 13-year old Border Collie/Sheltie cross had a lot of people very worried when she slipped  out a gate and ran away. Perhaps she was disoriented considering that there was plenty of action at the home at the time. There were construction workers in the yard, the family was on vacation and a relative was caring for the dog!

A call to the Regina Humane Society directed the dog's caregiver to the PetLynx website and she says it was very helpful. Thankfully, the run-away was apprehended within the hour ... so this HomeSafe story has a very happy ending!

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

PetLynx Makes a Match ... Before Newspaper Ad was Published!

If this dog's guardian had updated her contact  information and been registered with PetLynx, this dog would have been HomeSafe in under an hour ... But, thanks to PetLynx, this story still has a happy ending!

My husband and I saw a sweet little dog crossing a busy road on its own. We turned around right away to rescue it and watched in horror as she was almost hit by a car! Lucky for everyone, she survived that encounter and we picked her up safely on the other side of the road. She was wearing a collar and license tag so I called the city pound, but the information on her tag had not been updated.

Lama's Lost & Found Tale

Lama is a middle-aged Shih Tzu. Her family left for a holiday in Europe, having made arrangements for the dog to have a holiday of her own with friends. The designated dog-sitters, however, were away for the first couple of days, so Lama went to another friend's home for the August long weekend. As luck would have it, when Lama was put outside for a few minutes on Friday night she squeezed under the fence and disappeared!

Mass hysteria amongst all family friends ensued. We called the Burlington Humane Society and Animal Rescue and put up posters, registered on PetLynx and called the local veterinary clinics. It was a holiday weekend, so mostly we had to leave messages, no comfort in that! We waited....

Purloined Puppies Now Have Microchips!

My missing dogs were found at the neighbors, just two doors away, ... thanks to a tip from another neighbor. The teenage daughter was holding them on her deck (which is hidden by trees), with her parents and siblings present, while I was calling and whistling not 30 feet away from them!

It looked very suspicious as our three acres is completely fenced and the dogs can not crawl over, under or through. We wonder if she opened the gate and let them out?

A Beagle's Amazing Journey!

It took him six weeks after slipping his leash on May 22, when he was frightened by fireworks, but Laser the beagle has made a remarkable 80-kilometre journey from Winnipeg Beach, Manitoba back to his home in Winnipeg.

Dog Thought Dead is Home Safe

Whether or not PetLynx has played a role in the recovery of a pet, we love to share good news when a lost dog or cat gets Home Safe!

In August 2009, a dog named "Zoe" darted out the door of her guardian's Ohio home. Neighbours saw her get hit by a car and then run off into the woods. Although they looked for her in earnest, her family feared she was dead.

Ten long months after her disappearance, Zoe was found by a volunteer of Love-A-Stray, an Avon Lake, Ohio, animal welfare organization. Thanks to the collar and identification tags she was wearing, Love-A-Stray was able to locate her family.

Get the full details of this heart-warming and amazing tale on CNN!

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

Dogs + Hot Air Balloons, Fireworks or Thunder = Cause for Concern, not Celebration!

"Duke, a 14-year-old mixed breed dog rescued from the Edmonton Humane Society, is a big part of our family," wrote Janet C. "He went missing after some hot air balloons scared him and he was gone for several hours."

An Attitude of Gratitude

Dear PetLynx,

Thanks to your website we found our dog last night and everyone received a good night's sleep. We posted our lost pet on PetLynx at about 10:30 p.m. Within 15 minutes we received a phone call from a neighbour.

Pet Family Would Have Been "Lost" Without PetLynx

Here is an example of how the PetLynx AutoMatch system works 24/7 to help lost pets get HomeSafe fast:

I would like to thank PetLynx for the valuable service provided to me when I lost my Golden Retriever. I posted the details online with PetLynx and called the city pound and the humane society to file a lost report as soon as we discovered that our dog was lost.

My dog was found by a bylaw officer and City Animal Services must have notified PetLynx because the very next morning I received an email from your organization indicating that you had identified a possible match.
 

So, many thanks to all who have a hand in helping distraught owners and animals reunite. We would have been lost without you.

Sincerely,
Chris M.

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

PetLynx Brings Molly Home!

Molly, a 12-year-old Labrador X, and our golden retriever puppy went missing last December shortly after we moved to Edmonton, Alberta.

The dogs somehow escaped from their fenced yard at about 6:00 a.m. and the search for them began shortly after. The puppy was picked up by the City of Edmonton Animal Services about 90 minutes later... and was back home before noon. But there was no sign of Molly! Animal Services told us about PetLynx, so we posted Molly's lost report there and checked regularly for possible matches.

I checked the dog pound just about every day and, as the days wore on, began to think we had lost her for good. Molly is a house pet, and the morning she went missing was the start of the coldest days of the year. The fact we moved to an area where it was possible she could have been hit by a car had me really worried!

Molly had been gone for seven days when we received a phone call from someone who found her information posted on PetLynx. Molly had been wandering around an alley and she appeared to be injured but she would not go very close them so they could check her. The kind-hearted citizens managed to bribe her to come into their yard. She immediately ran under their deck and hid in an area where they could not reach her. There she stayed for several days.

We went to the home and my son called her name. She came running from out under the deck, with her tail wagging like nothing had happen. She did not display any signs of being outside for the past week. The injury the family had noticed had since healed, and we were so very happy to find her. 

Molly is my son’s dog and we had brought her home when he was only 6-years-old. The day we found her was only four days before his 17^th birthday. He said it was the best present he could have gotten this year.

I believe that without our lost report being on PetLynx we might never have gotten our beloved Molly back. Thanks for all you help.

Pat G.

Edmonton, AB

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online communications Editor

Dog Gone is Saskatchewan

My two daughters and I were visiting my mother in Regina on the Easter weekend. There were so many people coming in and out of the house that our four-year-old Shih Tzu, Duke, managed to escape. The girls and I drove around for hours searching for him. Unfortunately, we had to drive back to Estevan without him. The girls cried all the way home.

Once we got home, I phoned the Regina police and they told my about PetLynx. I registered Duke right away.

Within 36 hours of Duke running off, a man contacted me after hearing an announcement on the local radio station. He had found a dog that he thought might be ours! I told him I had Duke's information posted on PetLynx and emailed him my listing so he could ensure the dog he had found really was Duke.

Sure enough... it was him! My mom went over to the man’s house to pick him up and now he is home safe and sound.

Thank you for your help!

Sincerely,

Jaime W.

Estevan, SK

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

Sophie's Great Escape...

...And Safe Return

Sophie, an 18-month-old Lhasa Apso, must have felt she was getting too many baths because she dug a hole under the fence of her guardian's back yard and made a break for it. (She wasn't wearing a collar and tag because she had just been bathed again, after playing in the melting snow and resulting muddy yard.)

The little dog was found several blocks away and dropped her off at a nearby veterinarian's office. The vet assistant called the City of Calgary Animal & Bylaw Services and they came and picked her up. They also kindly gave her another bath, as she was really dirty by this time.

According to her guardian, Lorrie K., Sophie was away two sleepless nights. When she went to the City of Calgary to claim her lost pet, she was very impressed with how clean the facility -- and Sophie -- both were

"As for PetLynx," wrote Lorri. "Thank you so much for letting me use your website to post her picture and information. You have a very good service for all of us pet owners. The PetLynx website was so easy to use! I highly recommend PetLynx to anyone who is looking for his or her lost pet.

Sophie and I would like to thank everyone involved with her return home. She is a special little gift from God to me.

Lorri R., Calgary

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

Happy Tails Are Home Again!

Lost your pet? Here are a couple of heart-warming HomeSafe stories to give you hope!

On Saturday February 27, 2010 we received a call from a family that they had found our dog, Coco. They had picked him up just minutes after he went missing but were heading out of town for the weekend, so Coco was taken -- safe and sound -- for a ride, too!

Petlynx made it possible for us to get Coco back and we want to thank you very much for helping us find our dog. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!
        Sincerely,
        Susan H., Steve G. and Samantha H. (and Coco).

Our cat, Chopsticks, slipped out the door and disappeared. We spent hours looking for him -- rattling his favorite tin of treats as we went -- but had no luck in finding him.  We left the porch lights on and put some food at the front and back doors. An exhausting 13 hours after Chopsticks had been gone I finally decided to close the door for the night. There he was trotting up the steps as if nothing had happened!! We were so happy... and he was SO hungry! We don't think he'll be going outside again for a while. :)

Thank you for your service and support when we needed some comfort in knowing we were doing at least something proactive to find our cat.  Keep up the great work!
          Sue J. 

Posted by Terri Perrin, Online Communications Editor

Dog-napping has a Happy Ending Thanks to PetLynx

If Chloe, could talk, she would have quite a story to tell!

According to her Calgary guardians, the American Eskimo X Sheltie, was dog-napped when she was left tied up outside a medical office. A witness saw two women pick up the tethered dog, unclip her leash and walk away.

"I was pretty naive," said Alessandro. "I never thought someone would just steal someone else's dog. I had been warned about it, but I just didn't think it would happen to us!"

Alessandro said that during the five days Chloe was missing, the guilt and stress played heavily on him. He tried to funnel all the negativity into positive actions by putting up posters, calling local radio and TV stations and the newspaper. He put announcements on the Internet, including PetLynx, and contacted the police.

It was the posting on Petlynx that helped get Chloe home!

The family received a call from a man who had found a dog in Airdrie, a city a few kilometers north of Calgary. He had posted the dog's information Petlynx which resulted in an Automatch!

"Our life was indescribably painful during the five days Chloe was gone ," concluded Alessandro. "We are all so thankful to have her back and feel blessed to be given this second chance. I don't think this story would have such a happy ending if it wasn't for Petlynx. Thank you!"

P.S. Alessandro says that he won't be tying up his dog and leaving her unattended in a public place ever again!

Area Service Providers:
Calgary Humane Society, City of Calgary Animal & Bylaw Services

Accolades for PetLynx AutoMatch™

Holly C and her family were concerned when a stray dog showed up their Edmonton-area acreage one day. Fearing that the stray dog might be chased onto the range road by the family's owned dogs and be hit by passing cars or, alternately, become coyote bait, they called the County Animal Control.

"After we had safely loaded 'Jack' into the Animal Control Van, I went online and checked [my lost dog listing on] Pet Lynx," said Holly. "Lo and behold, on my first look at my potential matches, there was a perfect picture of this dog! I phoned the owner and within an hour, Jack was HomeSafe™. My heart felt soooo good. I can not say enough what a great site Pet Lynx has been. Well done!!! I am off to the vets today and will be sure to pass on the website so that other lost souls can be as easily be returned to their families as Jack was!"

Matches like this happen hundreds of times a day, when the PetLynx AutoMatch™ search engine automatically finds matches for the lost and found pets admitted to shelters, clinics, emergency hospitals, pounds, the general public and pet families.

PetLynx is the only provider of an Automated Recovery System like this in the world. PetLynx provides lifetime protection for pets... and peace of mind for pet families for just pennies a day.

Photo published and HomeSafe in an hour!

Bugsy, a seven-year old Wheaton-Schnauzer mix, went on the lam (without his collar and ID on) after someone accidentally left the front door open. His guardians searched the neighborhood until dark but couldn't find him.

"It was the eve of the first day of school," says Joann, "and instead of excitement and anticipation, my three daughters were inconsolable!"

Joann called the City of Calgary Animal & Bylaw Services to report Bugsy missing and find out what to do. They took her information, and told her about the Calgary Humane Society website and Petlynx.

"The Petlynx website was great!" exclaimed Joann. "I especially liked the lost posters and the regular email updates when there are potential matches."

At 5 pm the next day Bugsy's picture appeared on the PetLynx website! The family raced down to Animal Services right away. The staff were amazed to see them, since his photo had only been published an hour earlier!

"Fortunately, this was the first (and hopefully the last) time we have lost Bugsy," said Joann. "I was very impressed with how kind and concerned everyone was, and with the way Animal Services, the Humane Society and Petlynx work together to allow for such timely re-uniting of pets and their owners. It really works!

"Thanks again from our whole family, and as far as Bugsy is concerned, he is so grounded!"

Local Service Providers:
Calgary Humane Society
City of Calgary Animal & Bylaw Services