Hej!

Tyvärr kan jag inte hjälpa till på annat sätt än detta. Det här är tips
som jag tagit tillvara på från en amerikansk salukilista. I USA är det
ganska vanligt att hundar försvinner under en coursing så de här tipsen
är väl beprövade. Dessutom är det tips från en erfaren engelsk rescue
person. Jag har tagit mig friheten att kopiera dessa texter utan lov
men jag tror inte författarna har något emot detta. Jag hinner inte
översätta. Hoppas bara att det ger något.

Lycka till och jag hoppas innerligt att den lilla borzoi tiken kommer
tillrätta snarast!

Gerd Andersson



Brian Duggan, USA:

Kids are great eyes and can be motivated for a little cash reward for a
confirmed sighting. Call in your favors and get friends and relatives
to help you put up posters. Ask local obedience or breed clubs to help.
Contact vets, pet shops, and radio stations. Ads in the newspaper are
almost obligatory, but must be used in connection with all the other
search methods. Persistence is the key. Shelters need to be checked
daily and don't expect them to know what a Saluki is - have a friend go
and look. A
substantial reward should be offered - at least $200...

...Someone needs to manage the search, but not necessarily the owner.
It needs to be a good organizer. They need to arrange for relays of
help to keep the search going and to ensure that the searchers follow
the plan. What the searchers have to keep clearly in mind each day is:

A) the short term plan - how to coordinate the search today
B) the medium term plan - helping the owner & company wait out the
nights when searching is not practical, and organizing for tomorrow's
search.
C) the long term plan - organizing for the days ahead (in case it is
needed.)

It is particularly important to attend to the owner's physical and
emotional needs and see that he/she gets fed, encouraged, and as rested
as possible after day's of searching. They may not be thinking clearly
enough to organize the search and keep it going. Everyone wants to help
and I think all of us on some level would love to be the person with
the idea or method that secures the dog, and sometimes that means that
people end up working at cross purposes with the best of intentions. It
can be tough for us independent types to be disciplined, patient, and
follow the search plan. We have to pull together for the happy ending.

Karen Fischer, England:

1. Permanently identify your dog (tattoo or microchip)
2. Always keep a photograph of your dog/s.
3. If a dog has been lost whilst on a dog walk it is usual for the
owner to search but at some point you must return home to raise the
alarm and get help. The following people need to be contacted:-
a) The dog warden for your area
b) The police
c) The Welfare Officer
d) Other people in the breed who are local to you.
e) The local paper, radio station, television.
f) All local dog shelters and local rescue groups.

If your dog was lost whilst out on a dog walk, it is quite probably
that he/she will return to the spot they were released from, keep
returning to this spot. Leave someone by the phone to take messages or
give out a mobile number where you can be contacted.

Make up a poster in the following manner:

Heading: MISSING
PHOTO - if you do not have a photo get one from a magazine that is
similar in colour - if you own a parti colour then use a photo of a
cream and draw on the spots - it will reproduce on a photocopier quite
well.
SHORT DESCRIPTION - describe your dog as a neutered pet.
YOUR TELEPHONE NUMBER - this must be manned at all times or have an
answerphone on it
AN ALTERNATIVE PHONE NUMBER (The Welfare Officers?)
REWARD - do not state an amount

Keep the poster simple. It should be printed on A4 paper and
circulated to the above people listed in a) to f). The poster should
be displayed in the area your dog was lost in (if it was stolen display
in the whole of your local area and also send out to all rescue
organisations further afield). Try to display it at traffic lights, on
local lampposts, in local shops and post offices. Take a copy to the
following people and ask them to display it:

i) Post Office Sorting Office (where the postmen collect their post
rounds from - they may have noticed a new dog in the area).
ii) Milk depots - so that all the milkmen in the area can see it.
iii) Coal merchants
iv) Local Supermarkets
v) Local newsagents - so that all the paper boys and girls can see
it, like the postman they have noticed a new dog in the area.
vi) Local riding schools and stables - a horse rider often goes into
fields that others don't.
vii) Friends cars.

If your dog is in open fields and you have sightings of him in that
area, put out some bedding, under bushes or in a sheltered area and
check back early morning and late evening. If there is a sighting and
you are called out go and check the "beds".

All of the above have been found to work. One dog was retrieved when a
Dog Warden saw a poster on someone's car, he took my number and I
contacted the shelter who had her and at 13 years old she was reunited
with her owner 2 weeks after she was stolen from her house. The other
two stolen with her were returned partly through an advert in a paper
and partly through contacts with local gypsies. In another incident a
dog was found asleep on bedding put out for him after getting away from
thieves and running
lose in the area for 6 days. A sighting was phoned in of a dog who was
lost on his walk from a poster placed at traffic lights and another dog
was "dumped" on a local shelter's doorstep when posters were put up.

Basically you need a network that can swing into action as soon as a
dog is reported missing.


Jaqi Ter HAAR, USA:
I have no idea what the steps are but I'll make a stab at what I'd do
if I lost one of my hounds. If, after an hour or two of unsuccessful
lookingI'd;
1. Get a local phone book, call all the vets in it and let them know
the dog is missing with a description of the dog. Also let them know
that posters are coming forthwith.
2. Call all of the shelters and the animal control agencies in the
immediate area and give them a description of the dog. Also let them
know posters are coming forthwith.
3. Call the non-emergency phone for the local police agencies and ask
that they tell the patrolling officers to be on a lookout for the dog.
4. Call the local club (if you know it) or like this person did, call
a saluki person and let them know the dog is missing. Much of Cathy's
help came after Patsy let everyone know there was a problem.
5. Notify Afghan and Saluki rescue organizations.
6. Have someone man the phones while you are out looking and put
together posters (I'll leave the details of the posters to those who
have actually had to do this as I'm sure they know what is most
effective)
7. Locate a clear photo of the dog (or, as in the case of this dog,
get a photo of a saluki that is the same COLOR as the dog, most people
aren't going to be able to tell the difference) to copy onto the
posters.
8. Have a person in charge of the poster hanging group and a person in
charge of the dog looking group.
9. Make sure the poster hanging group talks to the community as well
as hanging the posters around the community.
10. Make sure each group keeps on some sort of scheduled contact with
everyone else (hourly call ins or whatever).
11. Make sure you manage all your volunteer resources effectively so
that you can conduct a long and arduous search if need be.
12. Have someone at the home base making coffee and food for the
searchers.
13. If the dog knows its owners have them set up a base (a la Duece)
where the dog was last spotted and keep a vehicle and crate open for
the dog to return to as well as the owner there.


John Burchard, USA:

A trick which might work is the following: put out some food and water
in a place it has been seen regularly, in a spot where the Saluki can
feel secure approaching it (in other words, not in a corner where it
might feel trapped). Put a couple of clothing items from the person who
will attempt the catch nearby. When the Saluki is coming regularly to
the bait (*small* amounts of food at a time, natch) the person can sit
quietly somewhere nearby, not looking at the Saluki, keeping face
averted and letting the Saluki take the initiative. It is possible the
Saluki may come up to the person if the person makes no move toward the
Saluki.

Of course this works much better if the person is already known to the
Saluki, but it's worth trying anyway, and that's the point of leaving
clothing items near the food ... familiarize the Saluki with the
person's scent. Running after a spooked Saluki to catch it is in my
experience a hopeless proposition, but if you let them take the
initiative they may (or may not) come right up to you. The less
threatening the better of course.

Another point: many Salukis are accustomed to getting into cars. It
might be worthwhile as an off chance to leave a car near the food
location, with a door open. Again better if it's a familiar car, or at
least the same make if that can be ascertained, but it never hurts to
try ...


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