How to find your missing pet

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Here are some suggestions for helping you find your cat. Because there are so many strays and ferals in Hull, people see one more cat & barely notice it.

• A color picture says 1,000 words. You need to make a flyer and include a COLOR PHOTO of your pat.
• This flyer needs to be hung all over town, including at all banks, post offices, Riddles and at the entrances to any streets in your neighborhood. These flyers MUST be in color, so people will easily recognize your cat if they see it.
• Drop off copies with all your neighbors.
• If you can afford to offer a $100 reward for the return of your cat, put “REWARD” on your notice, but don’t tell people the amount of the reward. This will motivate small children to look for your cat – and they are good at finding them!
• Do not put your name on the flyer – but only your phone number.
• Call your local newspapers & ask them if they will run a free ad for you – many of them will!
• If there is any construction going on near your home, bring the flyers over there & talk to the construction workers. For some reason, cats love to hide in construction sites!
• Call the Animal Control Officer in your town & mail her/him a couple of flyers. They receive “found cat” calls. Some of them also work with the Highway Dept. and are notified when a car hits an animal.
  Hull Animal Control: Deni Goldman at 781-925-4718
• Run a free classified ad on www.Petfinder.org.
• Hang up your flyers in local veterinary clinics. Sometimes people will bring a lost or injured animal to a vet clinic for treatment. Local clinics are Hingham Animal Clinic, Roberts Animal Hospital, VCA (Weymouth), & Old Derby
• Visit local shelters in person RIGHT AWAY and ask whether your pet was dropped off there. Some shelters euthanize or put animals up for adoption after 3 days, so you need to get there this weekend! Do not forget to hang up the flyers, as shelter personnel don’t always remember descriptions of animals. Local shelters include:
• Pembroke Animal Rescue League Shelter: 599 Washington Street (Rte. 53), tel. 781-826-6140
• Scituate Animal Shelter: New Driftway, Scituate, tel. 781-545-8703; http://www.neonedge.com/shelter/about.html
• Quincy Animal Shelter: http://quincyanimalshelter.org/
• All Paws Rescue: (will need to call first) Weymouth, MA; 781-749-0968; http://www.allpawsrescue.org
• Keep your chin up!!! We recently reunited a woman with her cat that had been lost for 7 months. It was found several miles from where it was lost. Just keep the signs up.

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