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LFPSA
(Lost and Found Pets of South Africa)
| Home Lost Pets Search Found Pets Search Post a Notice In order for this site to function as it is envisioned, it will need to be known by as many people as possible. If you own a website, doesn't matter what its format or function, please consider linking to this page somewhere on your site. Or, simply pass this url (http://lfpsa.bizhosting.com) around to as many people as you may have in your email address book. I will create a small banner in the near future if anyone would like to place such on their site. I would like to thank you in advance. |
Losing
a pet can be an incredibly emotional and trying time. The
uncertainty of where the beloved pet may be, what has
happened, and when they will be home is devasting and
sometimes traumatic. It is a time when reality seems to
run out of synch with what is going on. We walk around
and wonder why the sun is still shining and why people
are still functioning as if things are still okay. Yes,
it can be this severe. When such a time is upon us we have to resort to contacting various places. The various SPCA's in the area, the vetinary clinics and such places where someone could have possibly brought in a stray. We need to put up notices to alert people that we have a very much loved pet that has gone missing, and we generally spend a lot of time hoping and praying and asking and begging, leaving our details with person after person. At the time of writing this page (11th April, 2004), one of our dogs is missing. Our Chow who is almost seven years old and was originally to be the child of mine and my wife's when we were getting married, before we had our daughter or thought of a family. We have no idea what has happened to her. Every time the other dogs bark we go outside to see if she has returned, but to no success. It's the uncertianty that eats away at the soul. It is for this reason and the reason that there are so many other desperate people out there that I have created this site. After phoning all of the necessary places to give my details I wondered if there was one place on the internet that someone could go to and place a notice of their lost pet, or look for people who may have found our beloved. I don't know of any such place until now. I hope that I can help others in finding their pets. This site will serve nationally for South Africa. I am not an organization, I am not asking for any money or donations. I am a one man show who is merely trying to help. If the site grows and it is required for me to register as an NPO and operate as such, then so be it, but for now, I just want to get the job done. Yours in Faith, |
Some Words of Advice
Our chow has been found.
Apart from using this site, it would also be advisable to contact the various animal welfare societies, such as the SPCA (I hope to have a comprehensive national listing here in the future), the vets in the area and most of all, put up posters at stop streets and public places. If someone calls you to say that they saw your lost pet in a certain area, go and place posters there also. You never know where it will lead.
The reason I say this is because someone who had seen the posters in the area, gave us a call last week to say she had seen our chow, just outside the area. By the time I got there, she had disappeared into the veld and I couldn't find her. So, we put up posters around that area. We then got a call on Friday from someone who had found a chow in a different area altogether, the complete opposite direction, two weeks ago, which means she was probably found the day after she disappeared and this gentleman had taken her in. When we got to the house, it was her. This means that the chow that was sighted elsewhere was not ours, however, because we had put up posters there, a friend of the gentleman had seen them as he lives in that area, and he knew that his friend had taken in a lost chow.
It's the Chain of Fate.