HAPPY ENDING: Home, safe and sound: From the owner: “I found my Maggie!!! THANK YOU for your help and consern!” Terrific news… thanks to everyone that helped by sharing her info. Yippee!! (1/13/12 – 1/14/12)
LOST DOG:Albro Lake Rd, Dartmouth, NS: “Maggie” is a female Lab Mix, golden in colour, no collar (just had a bath), love people but can be nervous. In you have any information … I would love to get her back.PLEASE call even if you have seen her some where.I love her and mess her very much!!
“SCAMP” – Updated PhotoLOST DOG: Caledonia/476 Whiteburn Road/Queens Co. MALE: German Shepherd, 1.5 yrs. old. Wearing a brown leather collar. Went missing Jan.7/12 mid morning. NAME: Scamp Please cross post and if you have any information call Penny at 682-7937.
HAPPY ENDING: Home, Safe and Sound!! YEAH!!! This big beauty was reunited with it’s very happy owners. Thanks to Nancy for keeping him safe and doing all she could to find him help. And thanks to all who shared. Terrific!! (1/11/12 – 1/11/12)
FOUND: Aylesford/Ernst Drive/Kings Co. MALE: Malamute Dog was found on the finders yard at approximately 6 pm. Not wearing a collar. Very large so is presumed to be a male. Finder is unable to keep this dog. Thank you to Nancy for keeping this dog out of harm’s way. ***STOCK PHOTO***
Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 11, 2012 – “More than a dog a day!” The Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network is celebrating its FIRST anniversary. The Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network, which uses social media (Facebook, Twitter and it’s website ns.lostdognetwork.com) to help bring missing dogs home has resolved 470 cases to date. That is well over a dog a day! Nothing the three founders, Ann and Heather Morrison and Janet Chernin ever anticipated last January when they started the network after the successful search for a Bernese Mountain Dog called Annie using Facebook.
Website redesign was necessary for the Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network due to its’ huge success and rapid growth in it’s first year. Implementing new ways to report lost or found dog information more efficiently. This allows for an almost self-service approach. The new Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network website will include a blog discussing important issues surrounding lost dogs such as prevention, animal behaviour, and community issues. The site will continue to provide a comprehensive list of resources for people to use in helping “bringing missing dogs home”.
With the Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network now reaching more than 4000 members the plight of lost dogs is changing in this province. Dogs once considered “strays” are now being considered a “lost dog needing help”. This change makes reuniting dogs with their owners much more likely. Keeping dogs out of shelters and rescues frees up space and resources for the dogs who truly need it. Co-operation from and with animal services, shelters and rescues has been a win-win situation for everyone – especially the dogs. Its’ easy for these services to match up dogs in their system with dogs on our site, making for possible faster reunions with happy owners.
High profile cases and extraordinary success stories have helped heighten the exposure of the Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network which relies on its over 4000 members to share the information they receive to bring missing dogs home. Cases such as that of Luna, the visiting dog from Austria who bolted at fireworks, and was flown home a week later, Buster, gone 9 months and returned home, safe and sound, and Bandit, despite several sightings is still missing. His owner and the network have never given up hope and the search continues.
With the new website, Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network begins a new era in helping lost dogs in Nova Scotia. Our hopes for the future are to expand LostDogNetwork.com to include other communities in Canada and the US.
The Nova Scotia Lost Dog Network owes it’s success to, and would like to thank, all its volunteer members and all those who take the time to read and/or share a post of a lost or found dog – Helping “bringing missing dogs home”.
Jan.11/12 Wandered into Creative Kids Education Centre today (close to Madeline Symmonds School) and wouldn’t leave. No tags so they couldn’t contact the owner. Eventually, they had to call animal control. Please if you have any information contact Animal Services at 490-4000 or the Pound at 407-7283. Thank you to Laura for notifying us. ***STOCK PHOTO***
HAPPY ENDING: Zack is home, safe and sound!! Thanks Kim for keeping this pooch out of harms way. Fantastic! From Kim: “Zack is home with his family! 🙂 Thanks to everyone who reposted his add and all the tips.” Yippee!! (1/12/12 – 1/12/12)
FOUND DOG: New Glasgow/Trenton Rd./Pictou Co. MALE: Shep/Lab mix (?) He is wearing a blue collar and is very friendly! Please cross post and if you have any information please …
HAPPY ENDING: Home, safe and sound!! Yippee!! Dano is home and recovering from his prickly encounter with a porcupine. “The poor Boy had to have an overnight with the Vet to remove hundreds of quills. He is so happy to be home now.” We wish Dano a swift recovery. Thanks to all who shared his info … wonderful!
LOST DOG:Hardwood Lands/ Highway 102 – Exit 9 / Hants Co. MALE: Beagle, 3 years old, 15″ black and tan with a orange collar with a name tag with a Phone # on NAME: Dano He went missing Jan 7/12. Please cross post and if you have any information contact …
HAPPY ENDING: Home, safe and sound!! Yippee!! Such good news for a scared dog in the big city. Thanks to everyone that helped and shared. Terrific! (1/10/12 – 1/10/12)
LOST DOG: Needham Park/ HRM MALE: Catahoula Leopard dog, he is black with white and grey spots and has one brown eye and one blue eye. NAME: Rowan Fireworks were let off at Needham Park in North End Halifax, Rowan took off running toward Devonshire/Union street area. Jan.10/12 7:15 pm Please cross post and if you have any information …
HAPPY ENDING: Home, Safe n' Sound: Sighted: Roaming Dog: Becks Way, Colby Village, HRM, NS - Retriever Mix, male (?), gold/red, collar/tags
HAPPY ENDING: This pooch is home, safe and sound. Yippee! Thanks for the report and to all who shared his info. From the owner: “He came home!!! The kids left door open and he went out! Thanks to whoever tried to read his tags!” (1/10/12 – 1/10/12)
Sighted dog roaming around Becks Way in Colby Village at approx. 1:00 today, Tuesday, January 10, 2012. He was wearing a collar with a blue bone shaped tag that was engraved, but was he was timid and they couldn’t be read. He was also wearing a green one that looked like a vaccination tag. He is no longer here, but might be a departure point for anyone looking for him. Animal Control was contacted and the reference number is available: novascotialostdognetwork@gmail.com
UPDATE FROM OWNER (1/13/12): He is very timid especially of men but loves kids and women, He has really big, floppy ears. Fly is white with brown/black markings, and spotted feet/legs. He almost looks like he has a headband because of his markings. Fly is a very cute little beagle, very loveable and will curl right up on you. He has an eleven year old boy who is missing his little brother very much, so if you see a beagle running in your area, or anywhere from Purcell’s Cove to Spryfield, or anywhere around that loop, please contact us immediately. WE MISS OUR FLY GUY SO MUCH!! (1/13/12)
LOST DOG: Purcell’s Pond/ Purcell’s Cove area/ HRM/Halifax Co. MALE: Beagle, black,tan and white. Stocky build, 8 years old. Timid. Wearing a camo collar with a bell. Went missing Jan. 5/12 on the trail running from Ferguson’s Cove to Purcell’s Pond. NAME: Fly or Fly Guy. Please cross post and please contact Billy @ 880-0107, KELLY 405-6061. or Steve @ 475-1376 and/or 802-9941.
