Lost Pet Drone Recovery.

02/10/2025

Another very busy weekend with Pet Recoveries, Not all of them go as quickly as this one did, we were up in the air less than 20 minutes and we had her found.

01/27/2025

This recovery had a little bit of everything, Ella is on medication for her seizure's and had been missing for 4 days, we flew a couple days earlier but was unable to locate her, the owners then had a sighting of her and contacted us immediately, TIME is everything when searching with a drone. once we arrived it didn't take us long to locate her. Ella had run already once from her owners so the plan was to ONLY locate then call Mary to come in and set a live trap, But that plan took a quick turn once we seen Ella starting to have one of her seizure's we took this opportunity to see if we could get to her before coming out of it. There was a lot of team work that took place on this recovery.

12/29/2024

I also run the Michigan Dronedogs page we do some other drone and dog work on that page where lost pet is designated for pet recovery only We have been busy the last two weeks with pet recoveries. (See below) Please keep in mind drones are not the save all tool, YES it’s a VERY powerful tool but a lot of things have to line up for us to be successful. Top things we need is a Recent “Confirmed” sighting recent meaning hours not days.

09/02/2024

Was super hesitant to do this story but they did a good job putting it together.

Losing a furry friend can be like losing a family member. One company is finding them with drones.

08/08/2024

08/08/2024

Lost Pet and Livestock Recovery


Thank you for reaching out to Lost Pet Drone Recovery. We hope you never have to use our services but if you do below is some information to help you make an educated decision as to hire us or not also attached is our fee for our service we provide.
1. Thermal drones are a GREAT tool in the winter/cool season when there is no foliage on the trees
2. Thermal drones are NOT a great tool during the summer months or when there is heavy foliage on the trees, we can still do open areas well but wooded areas we would not recommend a thermal drone.
3. Call us sooner than later after your pet goes missing or has been seen, time is a difference maker.
4. Calling days after your pet has gone missing without any sightings, our services are not recommended, we will still go if you wish but understand our chances are very low.
5. We don’t fly our thermal drones on sunny days, you can’t do an adequate job in sunny conditions.
6. We can and do fly a lot of night flights the months that there is no foliage on the trees and that take place in the country.
7. Thermal drones are a tool not a guarantee you will find your pet.
8. We will NEVER ask for money before we arrive if anyone does, they are not associated with us and are almost guaranteed to be a scam. NEVER give anyone money before showing up or to someone who says they found your pet and need money for vet expenses. These are common scams that are out there.
9. All Michigan Dronedogs pilots are licensed pilots
10. If you still have questions after reading this feel free to reach out to anyone of us with questions

Pricing

$150.00 Gets you up to three sets of batteries roughly 1 1/2 hours of flight time.
They’re after $30.00 per set of batteries roughly 1/2 hour of flight time per set.
Excessive mileage/travel time from pilot’s location will be an additional cost that will be discussed beforehand on a case by case bias.

Darrell Maggert 989-992-9799 Mt Pleasant/surrounding areas

David Dainton 517-281-0501 St Johns/surrounding areas

Brian Alberda 616-366-3897 Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo

07/26/2024

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07/25/2024

What do you all think of our new logo

07/24/2024

Who else is hooked on the Brooks Falls live cameras

07/15/2024

This is one of the saddest post I will probably make about tracking. We got a call to use the drone to look for a injured horse that had been missing a couple days. Unfortunately, I had to let the owner know that if the horse is in the woods the drone won't be able to see through the foliage right now. We will do our best and we will bring our dog Oakley out also. Normally, our dogs won't track missing animals because they are tracking the distress scent but if it's injured... maybe Oakley will track it. We decided to start at 5:30am when the woods are cooler and easier for the drone. After flying for 1.5hrs it was clear that the horse was not in any open areas. All we can do is let Oakley have a chance to help us. We let her walk around inside the horse pen to get as much scent as possible. Once we reached to the broken area of the fence, Oakley was clearly leading the way and tracking with confidence. I was getting concerned about the condition of the horse with the many beds Oakley found along the way. At one point, we had about a 60 yard backtrack that Oakley worked out, before I looked ahead and my heart sunk! Oakley had found the horse, but unfortunately, it had passed away from it's injures. I've never been so sad to find a animal. I'm glad to have helped and put closer to the owner. I understand what pets mean to people! This track was about 52 hrs old by the time we put Oakley on it. I'm very glad my wife Julie was with me on this track to help share all the great things a tracking dog can do and being able to truly help people.

06/24/2024

Last Friday we got a call from the Sand Lake area to look for a 11 month old Golden Retriever. Conditions were right "Cloudy along with a lot of fields in the area so we gave it a shot. Summer time is very difficult for thermal but in the right conditions we can get it done.