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Pet Sitters
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If you have someone watch your pet while you go away, make sure that the
pet sitter has a list of emergency numbers, including a number where you
can be reached, the number of your veterinarian, and the number to your
local animal shelter. Your sitter should also have your dog's or cat's
rabies certificate, so you should be sure it is licensed before you
leave. Should your dog or cat become involved in a potential rabies
situation while you're gone (e.g., he bites someone or gets into a fight
with a raccoon), the vaccination and license information becomes
crucial.
Make sure that your dog or cat is wearing some sort of ID. Pets are more
likely to run off when left without their owners. If he's wearing an ID
when he runs off, it's much easier for anyone who finds him to get him
back home safely.
Make sure that your pet sitter knows to call the animal shelter if the
pet does get lost. It's best to leave the sitter a complete written
description of the pet or at least some color pictures so that the
sitter can provide a detailed description of the pet should a lost
report need to be filed.
Many pet sitters don't even know to file a lost report with the shelter.
Other sitters who know to call the shelter if the pet gets lost can file
only a general description of the lost pet ("sort of a medium-size brown
dog") and may not even know whether the animal was male or female. Since
we may have around 300 animals at the shelter at any one time, we need
as accurate a description as possible to search our kennel for your pet.
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Lewis Clark Animal Shelter
