This entry was posted on 10-20-2006 04:44 PM and is filed under Hamptons Life.
Last summer, a friend appeared on our doorstep distraught over her cat Jean-Marie that had vanished from the home of the careless petsitter in Amagansett. Luckily, we were well prepared to take action. The previous fall we had found a lost dog without tags roaming Ocean Road. After hours of frantic calls, the nice golden retriever with a limp spent the night in our sun room. His owner claimed him the next morning, getting our number from Animal Control. Although we frequently see those 'lost pet' signs on neighborhood trees (that the posters generally do not have the courtesy to remove weeks later), your actions in the first few hours are the most important to recovering your pet.
Beyond the local search, this is our immediate game plan if you have either lost or found a pet. Be sure to leave your name/phone number wherever you call so you can be found.
1. Call Sag Harbor radio station WLNG 92.1 FM They will swing into action with their "Pet Patrol" announcements and play them often. Please remember to call them back when your pet has been found. Phone is 631-725-2300. You can listen to the broadcast online at www.wlng.com.
2. Call the Town Animal Control & Shelters Southampton Town Animal Shelter 728-7387, open 10-6, 7 days/week Southampton Town Animal Control 728-1088, open 8-4:30, 7 days/week East Hampton Animal Control 324-0085, open 8-6, 7 days/week
3. Call Town and Village Police Although the police refer all calls to the Animal Control Departments, you may want to check in anyway, especially off-hours, when Animal Control is closed. The police will generally hear about lost dogs, not cats. Southampton Town Police 728-5000 East Hampton Town Police 324-0024 EH Town Police-Montauk 668-3709 Southampton Village Police 283-0056 Sag Harbor Police 725-0247 Quogue Police 653-4791 East Hampton Village Police 324-0777
4. Call Shelters These shelters will report lost animals to Animal Control, but it's always worth a call to cover all bases. Bide-a-Wee in Westhampton 325-0280 Elsa's Ark in East Hampton 329-2900 ARF in Wainscott 537-0400
5. Call Vets & Animal Hospitals Old Towne Animal Hospital in SH 283-0611 Good Friends in EH 324-7900 EH Vet Group 324-0282 Village Vet in Sag Harbor 725-0815 Dr. Browning in Sag Harbor 725-6500 Shinnecock Animal Hospital 723-0500 WH Beach Animal Hospital 288-8535 Hampton Vet in WH 325-1611 East End Vet Emergency in RH 369-4513 Riverhead Animal Hospital 727-2009 Kent Clinic in RH 727-7797
10-21-2006 11:12 AM
sarah wrote:
I keep a list in my phone book, under "lost animals", of all of the numbers (along with WLNG's number 725-2300) needed to notify locals vets and animal shelters in both East Hampton and Southampton towns. I have learned that people may bring lost pets to their own vets or animal shelters which may not be near where they found the straying pet.
I had that experience myself when someone found an elderly dog of mine that slipped away in the dark one night as I was walking it on our property and brought it to a neighboring town's animal shelter as it was nearest to where they were heading. I got my pet back quickly the next morning when I started calling my list of local shelters and vets.
Two weeks ago a woman stopped at my house to ask if I had lost a dog - I had not - as she had found one near by. She had brought it to ARF which told her she had to take it to the Southampton Town Animal pound as she had found it within Southampton township borders. She did, then was going house to house in the vicinity to see if she could find the owner which was very kind of her. I told her about my call list and getting a phone we went through it to notify everyone about the dog's wherabouts so that its owner could locate it quickly. Reply to this
07-31-2007 03:45 PM
Pat Franzino wrote:
thank you so much for pulling together all this info. My cat Henry has been missing for three days and all these phone numbers and suggestions were so helpful in getting out the word Reply to this
