I do not do animal communication with lost animals to find them because despite some success, it is difficult to locate them for several reasons:

  • Animals that are stressed have difficulty communicating clearly and responding to questions asked. The details and the temporality of the information received are then random.
  • If they can communicate, animals usually send details and rarely whole pictures, making it difficult to locate them.
  • Animals that are on the move keep moving forward and may obsolete location information even before sharing with its keeper.
  • The customer must look for her/his animal in the field at the same time as the animal communication is done to limit as much as possible the effects of temporality.
  • Between the reconstitution of the information, the identification of the place described and the arrival of its keeper on it, the animal may have already left.
  • Some animals do not want to be found.
  • The souls of animals that have died, especially in a violent way (such as a collision with a car) are considered to not always realize immediately that the animal is no longer in its physical body. Therefore, the timing of the information received may not always be correct.

Here are some quick action tips to optimize your chances of finding your pet:

  • If your animal is lost in an unfamiliar place (such as an indoor cat that falls from the balcony for example), put an object with its scent (blanket, clothes, ... or litter with their excrement for cats) near the entrance to help them orient themselves to the scent.
  • For dogs, you can also put on a cloth with your own scent in the last place you saw it.
  • Go see the inhabitants around the place where the animal got lost with its photo. Leave them posters with the photo and your contact information.
  • Put up posters on authorized media and in mailboxes in the neighborhood where the animal got lost.
  • Post an ad on accounts specializing in searching for lost animals on social networks such as Facebook and Instagram, and on websites: Pet Alert (in your region - white and purple logo), stmz.ch, anibis.ch, ... Animals, especially cats, can get into a vehicle and end up several kilometers from your home.
  • Post an ad on the Facebook pages specific to the city / town where the animal was lost and those of its place of residence if they are not the same, eg T'es de Morges si…, as well as those of the surrounding towns.
  • Notify vets and refuges (eg: SPA) in the area.
  • Also check the Facebook and Instagram pages of local veterinarians and shelters.
  • Notify AMICUS (dogs) and ANIS (other animals than dogs) for microchipped animals.

An animal that gets lost in a place it does not know, especially a cat, will tend to go into hiding. He is likely to be very stressed, which confuses his senses (hearing and sight) and exacerbates his mistrust even if he is very close to his guardians.
Consider the following when searching for the animal in the field:

  • Choose nightfall to search for it because the animals are more active at this time. In addition, he will hear you better at the end of the day or at night because there is less noise generated by human activity and therefore the voice resonates.
  • Use a flashlight to look for the glare of the eyes in your light. An animal that is hiding will not make noise, but will be on the lookout.
  • Call him by name, at least 10 times, every quarter of an hour, for at least 1 hour.
  • Call him in a loud, clear, calm voice. Usually he's within 300 meters of where he fled.
  • Repeat every evening for ten days. Even if the animal is nearby, it will not manifest itself the first time it hears you. It will wait for subsequent calls to locate you, see if it can move from its safe hiding place, and trust you to orient and come towards you. In the case of an anxious animal and a cat, it can take several weeks. Their patience is huge...