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Lost Animal Resource Group - LARG When your pet goes missing, you need honest, ethical help, dedicated to bringing your pet home.

02/07/2025

‼️‼️Save This Life is apparently shutting down - PLEASE take action if your pet is registered with them!

01/07/2025

Happy New Year! 🐾 Keep your pets safe and sound in 2025!
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Email from Lost Animal Resource Group Thanks for your support in 2024! A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit Organization ~ EIN: 84-3148331 Prevent ▪ Prepare ▪ Reunite ▪ Educate ✨Happy New Year 2025!✨ Click to che

12/25/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah to all of our families, friends, volunteers, and supporters. We are thankful for all of you and hoping for the best for this coming year. Let's make it a safe, happy, healthy year and also one with less lost pets out there.

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12/07/2024

We so appreciate the donations for and your continued support!
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12/03/2024

📢 DID YOU ATTEND OUR 11/12 FUNDRAISER AT TEXAS ROADHOUSE IN COLUMBIA MD???

IF SO, WE NEED TO HEAR FROM YOU 🐾
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Comment here--thanks!!!

12/01/2024

📢Want to help support our cause? This we're raising money to help fund our efforts to reunite lost pets with their families! Your contribution will make an impact, whether you donate $5 or $500. Every little bit helps. Thank you for your support. Please click the link below to donate through our PayPal Link, and comment "Giving Tuesday."

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We appreciate you! 🐾❤️

Our mission is to reunite lost pets with their families through community awareness, compassionate support and a dedicated growing volunteer network.

11/25/2024

📢Rosie is home and safe in Abingdon MD!!

She broke through the fence a week ago and was on the run. Rosie was abused and extremely skittish. She was seen all around home and Hookers Mill area but would run as soon as she saw anyone.
With a few sightings they were very worried and reached out to Lost Animal Resource Group - LARG. We coached on posters and feeding stations.

The family were worried, and each time we didn't have a sighting for a few hours they reached out asking what they could do. And pretty much within an hour, there were new sightings - but it is so hard not knowing!

Leigh Steindler Lina (a future volunteer) reached out to help and she was on board with the game plan.

Bob headed up to bring a camera for the feeding station and checked the area out, getting to know the area and where Rosie had been seen. There was a recent sighting in the woods, so we put the feeding station there.

Knowing Rosie was staying in the area and hoping she would show at the feeding station so we could trap, Jane Towery and Carol Miller saw her as they were returning from the store.
Believing there was no way anyone could approach her and knowing she was near home, here comes the miracle.

Pam Ford did an AMAZING JOB and was able to get Rosie into her home. Thank you so much Pam!! In her words:

"I wanted to review how I found her because accidentally my instincts seemed to work and would like your input on whether they were generally right on wrong. I opened my back door to take my dog out and spooked a dog who appeared to be bedded down on my deck behind my grill. I grabbed my puppy and placed her in an expen that I had just inside the door and began talking quietly to the dog that turned out to be Rosie. I could see that see was fighting the desire to run so I backed away from the door slowly while still talking calmly and softly. Good girl. Good boy. Good dog. It's OK. Hoping for familiar words. (Would it have been better to remain silent?) I slowly backed away from the door which was wide open until she couldn't see me. I didn't see any signs of dog aggression so left my 11 week old pup in the expen right there. (Did the dog scent draw her in?) I continued talking softly and after about 5 minutes saw a nose poking into the house. Feet still outside. She saw me and withdrew. I didn't know if she was still there but backed further into the house, 2 rooms away so she couldn't see me even from the door. After another 10 minutes she slowly tiptoed into the house and started sniffing all around the sunroom and kitchen. She was between me and the door though so I didn't move. After she started exploring more of the house I slowly worked my way to the door and closed it. I ignored the dog and looked at this FB site and found her picture. (I had not seen a single poster in all those days) I called and reported I had her. When I hung up the call I couldn't find the dog and temporarily panicked thinking she got out of the house. Then searched the house and found her under a bed upstairs. I was able to coax her out and back downstairs. I placed a slip lead on her to ensure she didn't bolt when her owners came into the house. When they arrived I could see her visibly relax and her tail wagged! Made my heart so happy! What did I do right or wrong to learn for the future, or is every case so completely different?"

This is a great example of how to ignore a lost pet and to lure them into safety. ❤️🐾

Thanks to Pam, Rosie is safe at home.
To volunteer or donate, www.largcares.org

Lost Animal Resource Group - LARG

11/17/2024

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Thoughts from Bob:

Posters!

Posters!

Posters are the number ONE method of getting a lost pet back.

Posters, why don't people take them seriously?

Why do people not listen to lost pet professionals when they say to get posters up IMMEDIATELY?

We have been telling people to get posters up IMMEDIATELY for years but it mostly falls on deaf ears.

More pets are found through the use of Posters than any other method.

Posters!

Posters should be very simple, just

LOST PET
DO NOT CHASE
PICTURE
PHONE NUMBER

(You do not want or need any other info on your Posters, and the websites like pawboost and others make THE WORST POSTERS EVER)

They should be duct taped under every stop sign in the area.

Posters, Posters, Posters........

Did I mention Posters?

Do you want to get your pet back sooner rather than later? You guessed it, POSTERS!

Please if you’ve lost your pet, PLEASE get posters up immediately, it really can get your pet back quickly.

Don't wait for your pet to just come back on its own, and don't sit back and let others do all the work. Get posters up.

Rescue groups are overwhelmed! The more you as a lost pet parent can do to help get YOUR lost pet back, the better.

Posters!
Posters!
Posters!

and lastly, POSTERS POSTERS POSTERS! 🐾

Whew…

11/14/2024

Thanks for coming out last night to the LARG Fundraiser at Texas Roadhouse in Columbia MD!

Fun people, great food & lots of support for our efforts reuniting lost pets with their families 🐾♥️😊

Special thanks to our newest Howard County volunteers Karen Eskew and Francine & Phil Kraft.
Stay tuned for more ways to support!

11/12/2024

🐾 Come see us!

11/05/2024

Bob posted:

I have a strange request for you all. If you get rid of your political signs, please let me know. I can use them to help post about missing dogs/cats. Some of you don't know but I'm a volunteer for Lost Animal Resource Group - LARG , thank you

11/01/2024

😊🐾SAVE THIS PHOTO TO YOUR PHONE! 🐾😊

On Tuesday, November 12, the Texas Roadhouse in Columbia MD will donate 10% of your total food or gift card purchase to Lost Animal Resource Group - LARG between the hours of 3pm and 10pm. This is a great opportunity to get a good meal while helping a great cause - eat in, carry out and gift cards all apply. You will need to show the flyer below (either print or on your phone) for the donation to apply. Representatives from LARG will be on hand 🐾 We hope to see you there!
Share this post to promote this great fundraiser!
Thanks going out to volunteer Francine Brennan Kraft for setting this up ❤️

EVENT PAGE: LARG Fundraiser at Texas Roadhouse

10/31/2024

Does anyone in or around Towson have a kennel that will be accessible 24 hours a day that when we trap a dog that it could go there overnight?

Not a big deal in Baltimore county because we can take them to pet ER however if it's a special dog or A dog we trap in Baltimore city it would be nice to have a space where they could go

10/29/2024

Here is an update on Gracie, the errant goat that we were able to capture & send on to the BEST sanctuary home at Old McDarling's Farm Rescue & Sanctuary, Inc.
They do such great work--send them some love (maybe in the form of a donation? https://oldmcdarlingsfarm.org/donate)

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Towson, MD

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+14433773599

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http://www.largcares.org/

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Pub Dog Columbia!

Here are some examples of what we are seeing on our FB feed today. Not all LARG cases, but heartbreaking to see. 💔🐾 #LARGcares #keepthemsafe #lostdogs #fireworks

Warning: Long story ahead… 📣Columbia MD - The amazing elusive Loki is safe after six months on his own! What a challenging case, but we never give up on someone’s furry family member. 😊 Loki has a difficult history; he was not socialized to people at all as a young Akita pup, and found himself at the Howard County Animal Control and Adoption Center late last year at 18 months old. An adolescent Akita can be a handful! Naty Rubio is an experienced Akita mom. She’s very familiar with the breed, so the shelter was thrilled to send him home with her and her children in November. 🙏🏼 Less than a month later (12/19/23), as Loki was just beginning to be comfortable, he saw an opportunity & pushed through the door that wasn’t quite latched. 🆘 Naty reached out to LARG four days later, and we began coaching with our standard best practices. She did everything right: food and scent from home at the escape point, flyers, calling shelter/vets, social media… Sightings started pouring in, and he even showed up in his own yard a couple of times! But he wouldn’t stay put, too scared of everything. 🙁 We put a trap in the yard for a while, and he triggered it when he bumped it. So he would never go near a trap after that. 👀 Loki became somewhat of a local celebrity. People from Columbia, to Ellicott City, to Catonsville knew about him, thanks to great social media posts, flyers and word-of-mouth. He put in lots of miles back and forth, always showing back up less than a mile from home. Often there were weeks between sightings. Every time someone reported that they saw him in their yard, they were asked to please put food out for him but to just ignore him and let him eat, hoping that he would come back. Sadly, this boy was so skittish and scared that he never stuck around anywhere long enough to make any progress trapping him. 😥 Beginning in May, Krystal was seeing Loki in her neighborhood and on her security camera. He was attracted to he

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