Losing a pet can be one of the most stressful times in your life. Most pet owners these days treat their pets like children or at least consider them part of the family. Our best advice for a lost or stray dog is to LURE them back, DO NOT CHASE after them. So, what does DO NOT CHASE mean exactly? All too often when pets go missing or escape from their owners, the first instinct is to yell their name and run after them. Another technique used is to create a search party and go looking for them in cars, quads, ATV or UTV vehicles. All this falls under the DO NOT CHASE rule. Chasing a lost dog is simply any forward movement in the direction of the dog, even as little as one step could, in the dog’s mind, be considered chasing. Also, dogs can hear much better than we can, so anything with a motor will scare them before you even get near their location. If you are a pet owner, police, or just someone trying to help the family of a lost dog and you are driving behind or following a dog around in your car, you …
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