ideas to FInd your missing dog

This post is most relevant to a dog that is lost off-grid however many of the suggestions apply regardless.  

We hope this helps you in your search.

• When possible, stay in the area as long as you can, most pets return within 24 hours to the area last seen 
• Report to vet and chip company
• Report to Lost Pets, Pet Harbor, Paw Boost
• Print flyers and post near location lost, public area within the area, close to home, local shelters.
• Rally community volunteers 
• Hikers, Bikers, Trikers…you’ll find the dog community is very committed. 
• Call his name.
• Offer a reward.
• Leave a scent trail.
• Share your story with everyone that will listen.  Distribute flyers and encourage them to take a photo so it doesn't get lost.
• Budget permitting consider a drone or a helicopter.
• Consider a pet trapper that uses humane traps, cooked bait, scent trails, trail cams and feed stations.
• Talk to hunters about trail patterns and animal behavior.
• Off-road groups (Jeep, 4 Runners, etc. -you’ll find that most are willing to keep an eye out during their travel)
• Use spotlights.
• Search with night vision googles.
• Consider a psychic medium. 
• Cut up his dog bed and placed the scents near the trap and feed station.
• Sundown and sunup cooking of bacon, chicken and broth to carry through the air before putting in humane trap
• Squeaky toys as we are setting trap.
• Dirty clothes used in and near trap.
• Multiple trail cams set-up at place last seen and other sighting locations
• Use various modes of transportation (i.e. boat, ATVs, etc.)
• Spread throughout social media on shelter websites, local community websites, prospectors, off roading, hiking, mountain biking, horse back riding.
• Contact Sheriff, Park Ranger.
• Local news.
• Ads on CraigsList.
• Posted in local campgrounds and marinas.
• Offer a reward.
• Searched for paw prints/waste.