Our Approach
When called upon K9-RSQ can help you reunite with your lost dog.
Dogs going missing from their owners is not uncommon. This often happens when your dog is off the lead and suddenly gets spooked, for example, by a loud noise such as a car back-firing or a firework. It may get spooked by another dog.
The end result is your dog bolts, and if it is immediately afraid by the situation it may not respond to your recall attempts and enter into what is known as flight mode, or survival mode.
Another common cause of dogs going missing is simply when they manage to get out of your home or garden. This may just be out of curiosity.
Dogs left unattended in gardens can often find a way out of what you thought was an enclosed garden or yard. Maybe the window cleaner left the gate open for 30 seconds, or the kids forgot to close it.
But again this can result in your furry friend heading out into the big wide world and if they don’t make their way back home they can become scared and go into “flight mode” very easily.
Once your dog has gone into flight mode and you are unable to retrieve it yourself, this is where we come in.
Most dogs that run away in this way are often returned fairly quickly but in some instances they can remain “on the loose” for days, weeks and even months in some cases.
Once we are involved our priority is to safely track and capture your dog as quickly as possible.
Having a team such as K9-RSQ on board with the search firstly offers a great deal of comfort to the owner.
Knowing that you have a team of experts actively searching for your dog brings a lot of relief and will remove some of your understandable stress. But of course the main objective remains to reunite you with your furry friend as quickly as possible.
A typical search relies heavily on public sightings. The Team frequently monitor “Lost Dog” Groups on Social Media and ask the public to help us with the search. Importantly we ask the public not to post sightings on Public Social Media (such as Facebook) but rather to inform us in private.
It’s important (in most cases) that the public don’t chase or shout a dog in flight mode. This will only spook the dog more and cause it to move on
Once we are searching we have a much better chance of securing your dog if we ensure the dog doesn’t move from the area of the most recent sightings. This way we can deploy “Food Stations” and Surveillance Cameras.
We will often send out one of the drone team where we can conduct ariel searches or “sorties”. We utilise small but sophisticated drones often using thermal imaging to help spot dogs out in the open.
Once we are confident we have the dogs general location narrowed down we would typically deploy Food Stations and Surveillance Cameras. Basically we will leave food at a strategic location which is monitored by a motion detecting camera.
The camera/s are monitored 24/7 by members of the K9-RSQ team. Any motion at the camera will be detected and alerts sent in real time to the Surveillance Team. All footage is recorded and can be viewed after the event.
Once we have your missing dog feeding we will place one of our humane dog traps at the site. Again this will be monitored 24/7 and traps are remotely closed shut by a team member once your dog has safely entered.
By operating the Trap-Shut mechanism remotely we rule out the chance of trapping other animals such as foxes, cats or other people dogs out for a walk.