National Lost Dog Awareness Day
Join dog lovers around the globe on National Lost Dog Day, who come together to help those poor souls who are tragically separated from their furry friends.
Drive awareness and sales of pet microchipping, ID tags, and pet-tracking technology while positioning your brand as a partner in reuniting lost dogs with their families.
- Microchip your dog in April: Share success stories of reunited pets and promote local vet partnerships offering discounted microchipping services.
- Lost dog prevention toolkit: Create downloadable guides with photo tips, ID tag templates, and social media posting strategies for pet owners.
- Partner with LDOA: Sponsor awareness campaigns or donate pet safety products to amplify reach within engaged dog-owner communities.
- User-generated content campaign: Encourage pet owners to share recent photos and microchipping stories using a branded hashtag to build community trust.
All too often, when someone finds a lost and wandering dog along the street, they assume that this dog is a stray, and has no home. Lost Dogs of America (LDOA) was formed to help prove this assumption wrong, and help those wayward mutts find their way back to their owners and friends. The organization was established in 2011, and in 2013 the group had the idea to start National Lost Dog Awareness Day.
Over those years they have helped 42,000 dogs find their way back to their loving homes!
One of their success stories is a dog by the name of Molly who wandered away from her home in Illinois. Thanks to a flurry of postings across a series of Facebook groups, Molly was quickly identified when the person who found her took her to be scanned for a microchip. While Molly didn’t have one, the vet noticed Molly’s image on Lost Dogs Illinois, and was returned home within just a couple of hours of being posted as lost. That’s the kind of magi LDOA and National Lost Dog Awareness Day can work in the lives of dogs and dog owners alike.
Track Your Dog
Start off by upping your furry friends chances of coming home, take them to a vet and get the microchipped. It’s the perfect way to make certain you know where your dog is at all times.
Take Photos of Your Dog
Then make sure you have plenty of recent photos of your fluff-ball (We know, we can hear your Facebook friends list groaning “MORE pictures? Ahhh!”) just to make sure you have a lot of recent images of them to help others identify them.
Connect with a Network
Don’t forget get yourself on the LDOA lists on Facebook to tie yourself into a network of people who work together to get their lost dogs home. Maybe you’ve seen one of them, or maybe one day they’ll see yours. National Lost Dog Awareness Day is your chance to make a difference in the lives of our furry, four-footedfamily!