Lost Pet Rescue Handbook

If you want to help lost pets, as a professional, a volunteer, or a pet owner, this handbook will cover anything you may need to know. Because it is presented here as a part of the Three Retrievers Newsletter, it will be available to you on your smartphone any time you need to reread a chapter or look up a procedure or technique. This post is a table of contents for all 40 chapters, which were previously published in the newsletter. Most chapters are available to everyone, and some chapters require you to purchase a subscription.

Of course, if you really want to learn about Lost Pet Rescue, you should read all of the articles in the newsletter, more than 120 at this point. Many of the articles illustrate examples of the material in the handbook.

1. Why I search for lost pets, and why you may want to.

2. Using a search dog or not, Physical requirements, safety. (Chapters 2, 3, and 4.)

5.1. Lost dog behavior.

5.2. Lost cat behavior.

6. Pet owner behavior.

7. Pet finder behavior.

8. Signs.

9. Logic.

10. System of Loci.

11. Evidence collection.

12. Evidence is not proof.

13. Case files and case log.

14. Consultations and interviews.

15. Training dogs for scent trailing.

16. Training a cat-detection dog.

17. Working a search dog on a scent trail.

18. Working a cat-detection dog.

19. Success rate.

20. Finding remains.

21. Photography.

22. Anticipatory grief.

23. Denial, grief avoidance.

24. Ethics.

25. Smartphone.

26. Business considerations.

27. Predators.

28. Pets and vehicles.

29. Listening to nature.

30. Social media.

31. Theft of pets.

32. Calming signals.

33. Equipment.

34. Psychics.

35. Scams.

36. Traps and cameras.

37. Reports.

38. Coordinating spontaneous teams.

39. Loss prevention.

40. What I don’t know yet.