Over the past ten years I’ve talked to thousands of dog owners who’ve lost and found a missing dog. Because I tend to look for interrelated behaviors (both human and animal), I’ve noticed that many of these dog owners had certain behavioral patterns in common that I believe were instrumental in helping them recover the pet. In my opinion, the following are the top five human behaviors that help dog owners recover a missing dog:

They act quickly.

Though most dog owners do act quickly when a dog vanishes, you’d be surprised at the number of people who believe that their dog will come back on his own, or will end up at the shelter where it’s easy to pick him up. People who lose dogs in the woods, an agricultural area, from a farm or ranch, or into any rural environment especially believe that their dog, like Lassie, will simply come home. They fail to realize that wandering dogs in rural areas are at risk of being picked up by a rescuer who “finds&rdq… Register/Login to read more