Aussie Rescue Canada

ALWAYS OFFER A REWARD (see Willy's story below)

Notify all shelters and rescue organizations and make sure they get a flyer.

Physically check these shelters regularly as many of the workers are not up on breeds and will call an Aussie a Collie mix. If there are construction sites in the area, let them know about the missing dog.

Put up posters/flyers in neighborhood vet offices/grocery stores/shopping plazas/fast food restaurants.

Notify police agencies....some are not very receptive but you never know.

Make announcements on radio stations that are willing to do on-air pleas for help finding the dog.

Place a Lost and Found ad in the newspaper. Also, check the pets for sale column in the newspaper just in case someone has taken him or found him and is now trying to place him.

Notify your postal carrier and ask him to put up a flyer in the post office. These people see neighborhoods up close and personal. Make sure they know there is a reward.

Notify neighborhood kids. Again, the kids are all over the neighborhood. Make sure they know there is a reward. If you can get the kids interested they will really help look and they will tell friends in other neighborhoods.

If you know the UPS man who drives in your area, tell him. Again, he is in the neighborhood and sees a lot of what is going on.

Put flyers up at any large gathering such as county fairs, concerts, etc. You usually get a good cross section of people from all over the community at these events.

If you live in the city or the dog was lost in the city, tell cab drivers and make sure finding the dog will be beneficial to them...enough that missing a cab fare is okay. Any company that does deliveries throughout an area should be told.

If you live in the country tell the 4H clubs, the oil workers, the electricity, gas, water company employees...TELL EVERYONE AND GIVE THEM A COLOUR POSTER WITH THE DOG'S PHOTO ON IT....especially tell the kids with horses that trail ride.

Stop at all working or hobby farms as many of these get dump offs all the time and would not think to look in the lost sections of the newspaper if a new dog showed up.

Tell all local dog clubs and ask to have your flyer printed in their newsletter and offer to pay the extra expense.

Send emails to discussion lists....long shot but you never know where a dog could be after a couple days.

Phone the bus drivers in your area (especially school busses). They travel a lot in a day and notice dogs.

Contact our webmaster at aussies@mikatura.com and have your lost dog posted on this rescue website

CLICK HERE for a printer friendly version of the above list!

Many thanks to Diana Oliver for sharing this excellent list with us!

Below is a posting we put on the website and we hope it helps anyone trying to do a posting for a lost dog. We are very happy for Willy, Eric & Shirley and wish them all the best!
Shirley credits the wonderful Aussie community with helping them get Willy back...she thinks that the website posting (shown below for informational purposes) plus the ad in the central Alberta paper, lots of posters with Willy's photo and word of mouth scared whomever stole Willy and they dropped him off at home at 6:30 Thursday morning, exactly one week after he was stolen!

Stolen - Innisfail, Alberta
September 30th, 2004

Willy is a trained hearing dog for his owner and is a well loved part of the family!

The photo above was used with the place Willy was missing from and the date of the posting...

Willy was stolen from our yard this morning

Male Red Tri Australian Shepherd - white collar mane marking does not go all the way around his neck on his left side
3 years old
23 inches tall, approximately 60 pounds
5" docked tail & was given a partial scissors body clip in June but his mane was left alone...so all that white hair is very full.
fussy eater (see info below)
quiet and a little shy

He will not eat anything, will probably starve to death, pukes if upset and very loose bowls if he eats something that upsets him, he is on Iams chunks with some bread and some milk and some water and a little barbequed sausage. This is all he eats and the only way he will eat it.
He does not like traffic, trained to NEVER leave the yard, will high tail it to the house RIGHT now even if I called him out the gate. Solid on that, so whom ever took him came into the yard. Eric was right there at the time, blowing out water lines so he did not hear anything at all, no barking etc. I put him out at 9 am after we had done our morning 7am chores and came back in. When Eric came in at 10 am (one hour) he was gone! He does not live outside.
Please pass this onto everyone you know, someone has to know where he is. Please help us find him.

Eric & Shirley also offered a $500.00 REWARD for information leading to the arrest of the person who stole Willy from their yard. They did this at the suggestion of the RCMP detachment and they think that this also helped make the dog-nappers realize that Willy wasn't just some "farm dog", he was a well loved member of the family. In fact so well loved that his owners were going to sell a prized piece of silver in order to post the reward!!!