Friday, November 30, 2007

Lakewood Pet Watch keeping eye out for lost cats and dogs

By Staff of Adopt a Dallas Pet

Lakewood Pet Watch is a neighborhood program designed to promote an animal-friendly community and pet responsibility. The program was started in the spring of 2006, and it continues to grow. The main goal of Pet Watch is to help reunite lost and found pets in Lakewood with their families. If someone finds a pet, they contact me... if someone loses a pet, they contact me... and hopefully a match will be made! The more people who know about Pet Watch, and the more people who participate, the more successful we will be at reuniting lost pets with their families.

It's also not uncommon that someone finds a dog in the neighborhood who has probably been abandoned, and nobody ever claims him/her. In these cases, I do my best to help find foster homes, permanent homes, or other resources that will help keep the dog out of a city shelter (although I do not serve as an adoption agency or rescue shelter, and do not take personal responsibility... I just do my best to help...). I try to limit my "area" to within the boundaries of Lakewood, as defined by the Lakewood Neighborhood Association, though I do share communications with other Pet Watch programs in surrounding neighborhoods. I do nearly all of my communication via email, and send out "Pet Watch Alerts" when there is a new report about a lost or found pet, information to update, or other news that concerns the health or safety of pets in the neighborhood.

FOR MORE INFORMATION, AND TO FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE IN THE LAKEWOOD PET WATCH, PLEASE VISIT THEIR SITE AT http://www.lakewoodpetwatch.org/.

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