LOST OR FOUND A PET??? 

Microchip AND Tag your pets - Make sure microchips are registered!  Many found pets have microchips that AREN'T registered to anyone except the location (vet office or shelter) where the chip was implanted. *Microchips:  after registering your microchip, call the company back a few days later to make sure they have your correct information in their system.  Be aware that microchips can move around and not be found in a scan with a wand and also there are several different microchip companies using different wands to locate chips.  If a different wand is used on your pet it may not read the microchip.  We recommend microchips and tags to be double safe your pets can get home safely, if lost. *Microchips and Tags: Use 2 contact numbers - if you use a home number, and are on vacation, your pet could be euthanized by the time you return home.  Use a cell number and/or give a relatives or neighbors number.*Use your address - then if a neighbor finds your pet, they can just return it home rather than call animal control.  Remember:  neighbors and good samaritans don't have microchip wands and need easily visable information to contact a pets owner.

• Vaccinate your Pet -  just in case your pet ever ends up in a shelter, humane organization, or someone's home and has contact with other pets, they should be safe from disease.
• Spay or Neuter your Pet - we're in a pet population crisis and about 40,000 animals will be euthanized this year in Southern Nevada.  Please be part of the solution.  Click on link below to see a ch. 8 story regarding shelter overcrowding and euthansia rates(http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?s=6851692)
• If your pet gets lost - put up flyers in your nieghborhood, check the websites of the local shelters, go to the shelter and look for your pet, fill out a "lost" report at the shelter, check the newspaper for a "found" ad, check Craigslist and other community websites, and check other humane orgs who may end up with your  pet.
• If you find a pet - If no tags, you can take animal to a local vet and have it scanned for a chip, place a (free) "FOUND" ad in the local newspaper, if you call Animal Control, note in the ad which shelter the animal is going to, or call the humane orgs or breed specific rescues for assistance.