Canobolas Vet in Orange (NSW) yesterday put a call out on their Facebook page, asking for information on a cat who had been injured by an arrow.
Before the day was over, thanks to the Facebook posting, the owner of the cat had been located.
An Orange family has had an emotional reunion with their pet cat after it was injured in a horrific attack on Friday night.
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Seven-year-old Makyah Landrigan cradled her car at Canobolas Family Vet Clinic as it sat bearing the scars of the surgery where veterinary surgeon Geoff Freeth removed the arrow.“He sleeps on my bed with me every night and keeps me safe,” Makyah said.
Her mother, Tracey Burns said she was contacted by her brother who had seen the details of the family cat posted on the veterinary surgery’s Facebook page.
“To the person who found him and Mr Freeth we just can’t thank you enough,” she said.
Edgewater Vet (WA) had a cat enter their surgery who had been hit by a car. Their Facebook call out got an extraordinary 600 shares, and an owner was located.
West Toowoomba Vet Surgery asked the community via its Facebook page, to help to locate the owner of a senior dog who had been brought to their surgery after being hit by a car.
Not only were the owners found, but several rescue contacts were standing by to take over her care should they have been needed.
Reuniting pets and owners is allegedly why pounds and shelters exist, yet most pounds in Australia (including the majority of RSPCA, AWL, LDH and other major shelter branches) fail to post photos of lost pets online.
If your local council pound is not listing lost pets, then they are failing to provide a basic level of service to the community.
They’re choosing to interfere with the process of reuniting pet and owner by holding pets where the public is unable to see them thanks to inconvenient opening hours without offering an alternative way of viewing impounded pets.
And when it comes down to it, they’re choosing to kill a pet, rather than take it’s photo.
Turning reuniting pet and owner into a ‘lottery’, kills our companion animals.
This guy was never photographed or listed online. He was half an hour away from home, at the RSPCA Rutherford, where he had spent a week. It took this Facebook post by the distraught owner on the Hunter Animal Rescue page, being seen by an animal attendant from the shelter, for the connection to be made.
Luckily, in this instance, Scooter was able to be collected by his relieved owner. But what a ridiculous situation to place this elderly cat in the situation where he may have been ‘sheltered to death’, for lack of a photo online.
Relying on a chance connection & owners driving across town to peer into cages, rather than every lost pet having a photo online is absurd in 2013.
Scooter is home. Lucky this much loved pet wasn’t a casualty of our failing animal sheltering system, but how many other pets aren’t so lucky?
