* There is a reclaim fee for lost
pets returned to owners which the owner must pay when picking up their pet from us.
It has been our experience that a cat or dog with a registration tag attached to its collar / harness is
often returned to the owner the same day that it is found.
It's actually reasonably common for lost or stolen items to be
returned to their owners long enough after the time that they were lost for a claim to have already been processed.
After those several weeks, the dog is
returned to the owner fully trained, and the owner normally gets some instructions on maintaining the training that the dog learned during their stay.
More than 10 million pets get lost each year and approximately 90 % of those found would not have been
returned to their owners without some form of permanent lost pet identification.
For example, many animal control laws; including those requiring licensing, identification, sterilization, rabies inoculation, leashing in public places and adequate outdoor shelter; entail monetary penalties and sometimes seizure of the animal with payment of fines as a prerequisite
for return to owner.
An old saying «like two ships that pass in the night» has been the biggest hurdle to
increased return to owner rates for shelters and successful reunions of lost dogs and their owners.
The Shelter Pets Count initiative was designed (a) to provide better information on the number of homeless pets passing through shelters and rescues and the
numbers returned to owner, adopted and euthanized, and (b) to encourage shelters and rescues to make their disposition numbers available to the public.
A riff off a Budweiser commercial, the ad features a dog that's lost and
then returns to its owners only to find out its being sold on a GoDaddy - powered website.
«We've seen a decrease in ownersurrender and an increase in
return to owner at UVHS,» she said.
Less than one million of those are
returned to their owners who lost them before they became strays, so that leaves an awful lot of animals that need to find loving homes.
Last year, about 649,000 pets were
returned to owners by shelters because the animal either had an ID tag or a microchip that allowed the shelter to get in contact with the owner.
«The Monroe County animal control service provider will have the authority to determine the final disposition of the trapped cats according to county ordinances and standards, which may
include returning to owner, adopting out, relocating to a long - term cat care facility on the mainland, or euthanizing.»
Cats with no microchips were
returned to their owners only 1.8 percent of the time, but cats with microchips were able to return home 38.5 percent of the time.
A couple of weeks ago I wrote a blog post focused on the tragic consequences that a black - and - white policy regarding
Return to Owner fees can have on lost pets and the people who have lost them.
AHHS determines its live release rate based upon the Asimolar formula (adoptions + transfer
+ returns to owner / total outcomes (excluding request euthanasia, DOA and died in care).