If you have a family pet and you love them then they are part of your family. Seeing them running down the street dangling a broken chain in the glare of oncoming headlights is not something you will soon forget. The pit in your stomach, the moment frozen in time. It could be your child. For pet owners the feeling is the same.

                  How ever your experience turns out. You will have received a bright flash of insight into just how much this can hurt. Maybe you are one of those more sensitive, aware kind of folks who are aware and concerned enough to think ahead. You have taken the time to come here. Maybe we can help in more ways then one.

                  Whether you find your pet or not and we of course hope that each and everyone of you does. The sad reality is there can be many days, weeks and sometimes even months of waiting. Sometimes you will never know. You can help by sharing your thoughts and feelings with others who are going through the same thing now. They will understand. You can offer tips and suggestions that maybe we or others have never thought about or have forgotten to use. Maybe you can be a sounding board for other peoples ideas and suggestions. It's like being a good neighbor when the Hudson Valley was little and small townish. When you cared about, said hello to and did little things to help your neighbor down the street. Well, we've tried to bring that community spirit, neighborly helpfulness back by giving you a place to help yourself by helping others.( See Hudson Valley Neighbors Forums for Lost Pets ) Its a place to talk, a place to share, a place to......help.

                  And realize that many people who have pets have them because they are the center of their lives. They are often like children for them. Many times people with pets are elderly, infirmed, hampered by illness or just inhibited by their personality so that they CAN'T go out there and talk to people or hunt through neighborhoods to get their pet back. We have met the sweetest, nicest and most interesting people doing this to help others. Sometimes, if you have free time, or don't and just want to do something different to start off your day with a good deed maybe you could post your willingness to help search an area on our Neighbors site.

                       Why Not ? People belong to clubs and do all kind of events just to stay busy. How about the satisfaction of actually helping someone get their pet back ? You worry about how your kids will grow up whether they will do the right thing. Never mind Karate Class get their butts out their helping other people. When they think they will need to use that Karate the people they helped might be there for them. Hmmmmm.... Interesting thought, huh ?

               I can remember one time participating in a search and rescue effort for a little 5 year old lost boy near 9W down towards the river. We fanned out 6 feet apart and slogged through mud and briars, up hills, down valleys never knowing what if anything we would find. Eventually, he was found by one of the searchers, asleep and fine. WE didn't find him, one of the other searches did. We were grinning as much as the person who did find them though because you know what...we had helped. What a nice feeling. And that feeling has been repeated several times over with users of this site... We are glad we could help in some small way...Maybe you could offer to help them in others....Like the saying goes....You'll be glad you did.

       We often get people saying that what we do is really neat and can we help you ? Well, first, we appreciate the offers. Thanks, It helps us just by you being supportive. We understand technology, we understand our limitations and we think or hope we understand some of the things that need to be done to decrease the chances of pets getting loose ( See Stop Loose Pets ) to increasing the chances of recovering them and getting them back home. ( We are working on some very neat ideas ) And, no we don't want your money, we really can't integrate a lot more people into our operation on this side...it's not conducive to that ...and that is the whole point about intelligent use of technology. I guess what helps most is 1) your patience and 2) your courtesy in realizing we are just trying to help and this is not our bread and butter. But thanks, the offers are appreciated BUT SEE # 2 Above OTHERS CAN USE YOUR OFFERS OF HELP ! ! Being overwhelmed is just an opportunity to be smarter and deploy better technology skills for us on a budget.

         If you feel overly assertive well even though our efforts are free, our staff is here, our rewards come from our own pockets and into our own hearts , still if you happen to be looking for a service that is advertised by us on our web pages then you can also help by patronizing OUR advertisers if it's for a product that would help YOU. We distinguish between products and services that WE endorse and those that are auto-inserted by the hosting company to minimize our server hosting costs by letting them utilize those annoying pop-up ads.

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