There's more to us than you might think...

Over the years we have reunited many people with their companion pets long after they had given up hope of ever finding them. Often older pets find themselves suddenly disorientated when they have lost their owners in a state of confusion because their senses are not as keen anymore. All too often people report their senior pet lost, claiming that "they probably wandered away to die, but we thought we'd report him/her just in case".

Early this year a seventeen-year-old cat that was lost in Calgary two months prior to being found in Bearspaw, was brought to us in Cochrane. We successfully traced her tattoo to her loving family where they rushed out to claim her that very afternoon, in a state of shock!

At the end of March we reunited a thirteen-year-old, blind and deaf, female Shepherd with her family after being lost for the entire month of March in the terrible cold. Both of these animals were a bit overweight when they went missing, thin and quite distressed when found, but otherwise very happy to have been rescued and returned to their families.

Let's remember that as our pets creep into those senior years that their senses do deteriorate and that they are counting on us to look out for their best interest. Always make sure that your pets are wearing some sort of identification, and that older pets are not left unattended off leash, and whatever you do - DON'T GIVE UP! Follow the same type of steps to find an older pet as you would a young pet; do not assume that they are dead just because they are old or because time has lapsed since they initially went missing.