FLORENCE, KY (BOONE COUNTY):
Corgi running around Paddock apartments is now SAFE!! LPR’s Kim Steinborn trapped the little guy this evening and he will be going to Boone County shelter to be scanned for a microchip in the morning. Hopefully the little fellow has a loving owner looking for him.
FAIRBORN, OH (GREENE COUNTY):
Well, Momoa, this big handsome boy, is safe… again. After originally disappearing for 9 days and then being trapped by Cinda with All Paws Matter back in the big snowstorm, this boy went to a foster home. But he got a wild hair and decided to jump through a window, cutting himself in the process. The foster and others searched for days but Momoa disappeared again. He’s so cautious and smart.
After one fleeting sighting near the foster’s house, there was nothing again for days and, then finally, a few people saw him come out of the brush along 444 near the base. We tried to get further details and narrow the location (this is not an easy area to navigate, especially with a very large trap sized appropriately for this big boy). We want to give a huge thank you to everyone who called in or messaged sightings to Greene County Animal Control, Adopt-A-Pit, and us. Without these sightings Momoa would still be cold and hungry, so THANK YOU!!
Check out “Red”, rescued by Rhonda Wilson of Lost Pet Recovery
SOMERSET, KY (PULASKI COUNTY):
“Should I leave him out here?”
“Yes, we can’t afford to take him in right now and we have nowhere to go with him.”
The desperate need seems impossibly formidable everywhere right now. But still, the rural areas still seem to overshadow the rest. Rhonda Wilson keeps finding dog after dog in deplorable condition in central Kentucky. We want to keep supporting her and telling her it’s okay to trap and otherwise get these dogs off the streets. But when every one seems to be a medical case and, with donations as low as they have ever been for us and maybe the rescue world in general, it gets harder and harder for us to say yes. We can’t keep helping these dogs without more support. And, believe us when we say we hate to keep asking—we would rather be out trapping and saving dogs than continually having to make attempts at fundraising.
But here we are again, begging you to consider what you would want us to do in these situations. Rhonda got a call last night about this dog, “Red”, found on a remote road in the woods, limping badly and very thin. The finder asked, “Should I leave him out here?”
“Yes, we can’t afford to take him in right now and we have nowhere to go with him.” This is the smart answer, the one that makes sense. Definitely the easy answer… on one level. But for some reason it’s not the easy answer for us. In this world that seems so short right now on understanding and compassion, how do we not show this poor dog mercy?
From the video, you might think “Red” is an older dog, arthritic and decrepit from old age. We did when we first saw him. But he’s actually quite young—only a couple years—according to the vet. How tough his life must have been, at least in his recent past, for him to be in this kind of shape, when he should be a healthy young pup in his prime.
Maybe it won’t be a choice for us for much longer, maybe we won’t be able to tell Rhonda that
GREENVILLE, OH (DARKE COUNTY): PETUNIA SAFE, AFTER NINE LONG MONTHS!!
CARROLL, OH (FAIRFIELD COUNTY): SWEET LITTLE DOXIE GIRL SAFE AFTER 3 MONTHS
To all the caring people concerned that this dog spent an extra 5 minutes out in the cold while I took the video:
Please understand that the dog had been on the run and out in the cold since October—3 months.
We, Lost Pet Recovery, had been trying to get the dog safe for the previous 4 days.
If not for people interfering—the source of my frustration in the video—we would have gotten the dog safe and she wouldn’t have been running out into the busy road and nearly getting killed multiple times. We would have gotten her safe before by at least 2 days.
That’s at least 2 days I would have had to put towards getting other dogs safe… like Petunia… or Frosty.
Instead of commenting to get the dog out of the cold and being upset with me for the dog being in the cold those extra 5 minutes… maybe understand that those few minutes gave the dog the time to calm down so she wouldn’t try as hard to get away when I did go to take her out of the trap (before the video she was running around frantically trying to find a way out of the trap). And maybe be upset with those people who, by interfering, kept her out in the cold much, much longer and kept us from getting other ones safe.
MERRY CHRISTMAS, BARNABY!
“Just dart the dog.”
It doesn’t work the way everyone thinks it works, the way they’ve seen it in the nature videos where the dart shot is shown, and then the camera cuts immediately to the animal staggering and falling down.
Hopefully this video coverage of the drone support Matt so kindly provided on his Christmas Day will give an appreciation of how it works. I posted the full clip because, towards the end, Matt pans back to give a view to the road which gives some idea of the distance Barnaby covered—and he went down fairly quickly and was not even at a full run as some dogs will do.
Suggestions on the best way to capture lost or stray dogs are made all the time on social media by people with no real experience base. They see new technology or hear about a way one particular animal was captured, and they champion the method, completely oblivious to the risks and dangers involved, or even the true effectiveness of the method.
Well, we have seen all the things that can go wrong and have even experienced a few, and therefore do not have the luxury to ignore these risks and dangers. First of all, we would not have attempted to dart this dog in this cold of weather without the drone support. If you don’t get to them quickly enough, they can go hypothermic and die. Additionally, they can run for several minutes and up to a mile or more before the anesthetic agent overtakes the adrenaline. In this time, you have a panicked animal in a drugged state. This can cause them to make bad decisions, such as running into roadways. Also, aside from the risks that come with the use of anesthesia in general and, especially with an unfamiliar animal quite possibly with compromised health status, when they do finally go down, it can be in a bad situation, such as a roadway or body of water.
We have had cases in which it has taken hours to track and find the dog, in heavily wooded situations. Dogs will often follow paths along creek lines and we have had a co
Our team is made up of pet recovery experts. We specialize in humanely trapping lost/stray dogs.
