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- Post flyers (with an up-to-date picture if possible and description) immediately throughout the neighborhood, on your neighbor's doors, with the neighborhood vet clinics, and emergency clinic/hospitals.
- Talk to your neighbors and ask them to help you look for your lost pet.
- Always keep updated ID tags on your animal.
- Visit your local animal control location, (in Travis County this is the Town Lake Animal Center (TLAC) daily . Don't just call or check the website. GO DOWN THERE and check for yourself! Ask to see animals in rabies observation area, that is, animals being monitored for suspicious behavior (sometimes fear alone elicits qualifying behavior). Time is critical . The law requires a stray animal be held for only three days. There is a 58% chance an animal will be euthanized if taken to the Austin city pound (TLAC).
- Occasionally, good Samaritans find animals and foster them briefly at home, rather than risk their being destroyed at the pound. For this reason you should consult the "Found Pet" section (and enter yourself in the "Lost Pet" section) of that binder in the Reclaim Office at TLAC.
- Consider placing an ad in the Austin-American Statesman lost pet section.
- List you pet on internet lost and found websites. See "Local Resources" below.
- If your animal is (or very much resembles) a pure breed, we recommend you also check whether the breed-specific rescue groups have gotten messages about a found animal.
- Lost Pets 101
- PetRescue.com Library
Local Resources For Locating Your Lost Pet
