Pet Safety: One Simple Trick to Avoid Lost Animals

We talk a lot on our Facebook page about ways to plan ahead, hacks to ensure safety is always front and center in our households. It only takes seconds for a dog or cat to slip past us (yes, even when we think we're being careful!), especially if you have a guest or visitor in your home who may not remember to close the door quickly. It never seems to fail, despite our best efforts, our furry friends often manage to escape.

"Prevention is the best option" - today we're sharing a helpful reminder from the amazing folks at Lost Dogs of Wisconsin, who for years have been a valuable and brilliant resource for pet recovery. Something as simple as this baby gate pictured below could be a real lifesaver! Enclosing your front door space with a baby gate - either a locking one shown here in a hallway, or using a free-standing style of fencing to secure the area right around the doorway - can be the difference between an escape or keeping your pet safely behind an extra barrier.

The second image below, a brilliantly simple post by the Sheltie Rescue group on Facebook, is another reminder for any four-footed family members. Just planning ahead to place a barrier - even if you have well-trained animals, because when the door opens for a delivery person or neighbor - any dog might spy something exciting outside and bolt right out. I'm thankful my cats are fairly timid about the outside world, so they don't ever venture close to the door, however if a moth happens to get inside they dash around like maniacs, and once when the front door opened, a cat raced right out in pursuit of the magical winged creature.

When we make it a habit to always be thinking "prevention" of situations which may increase accidents, we lessen the chances of a loose, terrified, pet. That's always a winning situation as far as we're concerned! Follow us on our social channels listed below, or look us up on Facebook where we cover portions of the Delmarva Peninsula (Maryland, Delaware and Virginia). Thanks for checking out our blog.

Established in 2011 as Delmarva's original lost pet network, we now cover Sussex County, Delaware along with the lower eastern shore of Maryland and Accomack & Northampton Counties in Virginia.