Pet Locator Tips

The Big Dawg in Country

102 N Kanawha Street

Beckley, WV 25801

Phone number: 1 (304) 253-7311

The radio station, WJLS AM 56 - FM 99.5 which is located in Beckley, WV, which serves the Fayette, Raleigh, Summers, and Wyoming County in West Virginia, has an Information Line via phone which one can report a Missing or Lost pet. The phone number to access this Hotline is: 1 (304) 255-2400.

The Information Line which is a recording gives its listeners information concerning the Community Calendar, Job Search, Concert Information, School Closing, Lost and Found Pets, etc. To listen to the recorded information or to submit information to this Hotline, dial 1 (304) 255-2400.

Messages you leave concerning a Lost or Found Pet are usually left there for about forty eight hours unless they are advised to leave it there longer. Otherwise, resubmitting information concerning a Lost or Found Pet is needed.

When submitting information concerning a Lost or Found Pet, the following guide lines may prove helpful to you:

1. Where was the animal was lost:

A minimum is state, city, and street name, with cross streets. The name of your housing development is not enough.

2. When the animal was lost:

3. Please give the date, and a general time of day, if known.

4. A description of the animal, including color and markings:

Please be sure to include age, approximate size and/or weight and sex. Giving a breed or species name is not enough. Not everyone knows what a conyer looks like and or what color your mean when you say a dog is blue or a cat is red. Be sure to mention if the animal was wearing tags or is tattooed or microchipped.

You must include contact information. Your name, phone number, etc. are required. Your e-mail address could also be another means for Contact Information.

The circumstances of how your animal was lost can be helpful, for instance, if your dog was frightened by fireworks, he may have spent quite a while running. If your animal mats easily, or likes to roll in the mud, that may help. If you are offering a reward, this is where it would be mentioned.

Lost in Munhall, VA, our dog, Taffy, a small, brown shaggy terrier was lost in the 800 block of Maple Street, between Pine and Elm, about 7 PM on Sunday, December 20, 1998. He ran out the door during a thunderstorm and we couldn't find him. He is about 25 Lbs and is wearing a blue nylon quick-release collar with a license tag from Douglas County, a rabies tag from the Animal Medical Center, and a blue bone shaped ID tag with his name and our phone number on it. Taffy is microchipped, and tattooed on the inside of one thigh. Taffy's coat mats in the rain if he is not brushed out immediately, so he may look scruffy and uncared for. We will pay a REWARD for information leading to Taffy's safe return home. Please contact: Rose, phone: 402-555-1212 or e-mail us at: taffysmom@anywhere.com

1. Contact your local animal shelter describing your pet, although better yet provide them with a photo of your pet.

2. Put out posters, preferably with a photo of your pet, in business places in your community and the surrounding area.

3. Contact your veterinarian clinics to see if he has been admitted for medical assistance.

5. Use the Internet as much as possible to document that lost. There are many sites which are available to assist you in locating lost or found pets.

7. Please be sure to search at nearby dwellings where an opening once existed where they could have entered, but inadvertently has been closed not aware that your pet is in there.

Your pet cannot talk. Show that you care and make sure he is always wearing an identification tag with your name and phone number on it. Did you know in Beckley, WV, at Wal-Mart that they have a machine where you can have and identification tag made for your pet in just a few minutes?

An identification tag needs to be on your pet. It could make the difference in it being found if lost.