Other Resources

Find websites and services for all kinds of needs you'll encounter in your search for your lost dog. Check back; this page is a work in progress!

Call forwarding services:  You want sightings of your dog, but maybe you don't want to put your phone number "out there". Or maybe there are different people available to answer sighting calls at different times. Or you have a phone number that is long distance for the area where your dog is lost, and you want to provide a toll-free number that is cheap for you - Kall8

Reach all your sighting responders quickly, with one email:  You may have a number of people that need to know about a sighting of your lost dog as quickly as possible -- when every second counts. Get their cell phone carriers, and you can send one email that everyone receives as a text message. Read how.

Plot sightings of your dog on an online map: Google Maps is good for this, and you can find many Google Maps instructional videos at YouTube.  Or click on Help at the Google Maps opening page. Remember, friends and family from anywhere can hlep you with mapping. Also, use a Google map to show areas already fliered, areas needing fliers, and where flier removals are needed when your dog is found. Sample maps coming.

Language translation websites:  Find the words to translate your fliers, or the website devoted to finding your lost dog, to other languages - Yahoo! Babelfish  ***  Free Translation  ***  Google Language Tools

Fundraising websites:  Give your friends (and strangers!) an easy way to donate to your cause. Set up a fundraising account, and then email the website you get with it to all your friends and ask them to do the same. Or post your story to Craigslist. Put it in your signature for all your emails. Try anything!  ChipIn  (sample - Skeeter)  ***  First Giving  (sample - Skeeter)  ***  Facebook Causes (sample - Izzie)

Post your fliers where anyone can download them:  There are many document sharing websites, and just a few are named here. Upload your flier, and make the link to it available to anyone so they can downloade and print them, or just email them to everyone they know. Try any of these, or find other ones:  Google Documents  ***  Scribd  ***  Box

Give your lost dog search a web presence:  Flyers have room for so little information, and it's so time consuming to give out all the information a person needs to help you find your lost dog. Plus, you want to post as many pictures of your dog as you can, to help people identify the dog they have sighted, and to tug at heartstrings so more people will help you in your search! Consider options such as the following (all of which are free and user friendly to set up), and then email it out, post it to Craigslist and Facebook, get it posted to any websites you can:  a blog (sample - Rosie)  ***  a Dogster profile (sample - Chiona)  ***  a Facebook group or fan page (sample FB group - Oakey)  *** a Twitter microblog (sample - Jeddah)  ***  a video on YouTube (sample - Buster)  ***  a slide show (sample - Izzie)


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