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Once complete, please go back to our Find
Your Pet Strategy Plan for the next step.
 Print,
then tick off as you go.
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Knock on the doors of
your neighbours. Start with immediate ones and then
widen out to all the houses in your street and
neighbouring streets in all directions.
Take a notebook or piece of paper to write down who
was home and which houses you need to try again
later.
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Ask neighbours if you may check (with them present) their locked sheds, cars etc for your pet in case it is
locked in somewhere.
(We recommend you do the searching, rather than trust them to do
so..they will not look as thoroughly as you will and others may not even
check at all...we know this as our cat Sammy was missing three days.
Unbeknownst to us, she was two doors away locked in a neighbours outdoor
laundry. I asked these neighbours to check all outbuildings etc and they
cheerfully assured me they would. obviously they did not check at all
which is why she was only freed three days later when they finally went to
wash some clothes...She made a hang of a mess of their laundry, including
ripping the curtain to absolute shreds, but I reckon it was divine
retribution / utu (payback!) for not doing as they promised and checking
such an obvious place straight after I knocked...It was this Sammy's
disappearance that also gave birth to the idea for petsonthenet.co.nz...) more
on petsonthenet.co.nz & why we do this |
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Ask
immediate neighbours to check under their house,
or ideally get permission to do this yourself.
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Tell
all neighbours you are putting a lost sign
up on your own fence, so
they remember which house
you and your pet belong to
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Save
time by distributing your flyers at the same time,
once you have contacted
your immediate neighbours.
See our Flyers
Checklist for great tips on doing your flyers
effectively and click here for your nearest Warehouse
Stationery branch for fast photocopying
After
a day or two, you should widen your flyer drop
further again.
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Book
newspaper ads the day your pet goes missing
because it can take 2 - 3 days for your ad to be
published. Some papers are only weekly! The best
time for a lost pet ad to be seen (looked for by
the finder) is immediately after the loss, not
weeks later. You can get excellent exposure though an ad
in your local paper/s (up to $20 for two lines
depending on circulation). Or better still;
blanket the city with an ad in all the local
papers. In Auckland this can cost as little as
$153 per week to target in excess of 300,000
households through papers delivered free to each
household. Contact your local paper for a
quote and publishing dates. Pets on the Net
gives you nationwide exposure for free, but we
still recommend that you also do some advertising
in your local paper as well.
See our "Ads Checklist"
for important tips on how to write an effective ad
in newspapers and on this site.
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Remember
to add our website address to your
ad, so people can go on the net for more detailed information and a
photo.
ie) View www.petsonthenet.co.nz ad 12345 for more info.
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