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Our team is made up of pet recovery experts. We specialize in humanely trapping lost/stray dogs.
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11/13/2025

“[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain.” ~ President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954, in his proclamation asking Americans to observe Veterans Day.

How can we honor such sacrifice and support our veterans? One way has been our participation in what is now a bi-annual event, "Vaccines for Vets," put on by our friends at the “Dayton, Ohio & Surrounding Area Lost & Found Pets" page.

The vaccines and our veterinarian’s services are provided without cost as a service to our veterans.

This next event happens this Saturday, November 15, in Dayton. If you know a veteran in the Dayton area who might benefit, please share. If you would like to support the provision of the vaccines, please consider donating.

Thank you for considering supporting us as we together support our veterans. To do so:

— The “donate” button on our page https://www.facebook.com/lostpetrecovery
— Venmo
— PayPal Giving Fund at https://paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2369747
— PayPal [email protected]
— CharityNavigator.org to be a monthly sustainer
— Checks to Lost Pet Recovery, PO Box 16383, Columbus, OH 43216
💟 THANK YOU!! 💟

11/10/2025

I-75 exit near London, KY

For more than two years this precious boy was neglected and left to fend for himself, cold and lonely on the side of a busy highway. Why?! He is so loving and sweet and loves human attention so much. What must he have been wondering about what he did so wrong to be left this way by humans.

It’s through tears that we sit here and wonder just how many more of these precious souls are in this same situation right now, out on their own to fend for themselves for months or even years, like this sweet boy! If you’re aware of these situations, please reach out for help. Post and keep asking until the right group sees it!

After a couple previous attempts at trapping following sporadic, infrequent sightings, LPR’s Rhonda Wilson planted herself in London over the weekend, determined to get this beautiful boy safe. Her unwavering determination and persistence was rewarded and that sweet boy slept in a warm, soft bed for the first time in over TWO YEARS!!!

THANK YOU (again), Rhonda! Thank you, the kind folks at the Mexican restaurant who kept him supplied with warm food! Thank you, Amy Thomas, for making this video to tell this boy's story!

Lost Pet Recovery runs completely on donations and is all volunteer. We are a 501(c)(3) non profit organization based in Columbus, OH. To support our mission:
— The “donate” button on our page https://www.facebook.com/lostpetrecovery
— Venmo
— PayPal Giving Fund at https://paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2369747
— PayPal [email protected]
— CharityNavigator.org
to be a monthly sustainer
— Checks to Lost Pet Recovery, PO Box 16383, Columbus, OH 43216
💟 THANK YOU!! 💟

11/03/2025

Columbus, OH: Getting this dog safe was one of the highlights of our weekend. If you have any info about this pup, please message our page or call 614.377.1777.

Thank you to the kind folks who kept him fed and close while he was out and to Canine Collective for bringing him into rescue.

Lost Pet Recovery runs completely on donations and is all volunteer. We are a 501(c)(3) non profit organization based in Columbus, OH. To support our mission:
— The “donate” button on our page https://www.facebook.com/lostpetrecovery
— Venmo
— PayPal Giving Fund at https://paypal.com/us/fundraiser/charity/2369747
— PayPal [email protected]
— CharityNavigator.org
to be a monthly sustainer
— Checks to Lost Pet Recovery, PO Box 16383, Columbus, OH 43216
💟 THANK YOU!! 💟

10/30/2025

Every once in a while, there’s a really well-timed pic from one of the trail cameras…

🎃 HAPPY HALLOWEEN, from all of us at LPR! 🎃
👻 👹 💀 👻 🐈‍⬛ 🧙‍♀️

09/11/2025

GALLOWAY (Franklin County), OH: After 8 days on the run, Border Collie/shepherd mix Ares was safely trapped overnight one mile from where he went missing.

As with so many dogs we help, Ares was newly adopted and went missing the day after he arrived at his new home. These transitions are times of vulnerability when dogs—not yet familiar with their new people, new routine, new home—often get loose. True to form of dogs who go missing in an unfamiliar area, Ares stayed close to his point of escape with sightings within 1.1 miles of his missing location.

Sightings were scarce, though. After posting large, bright, simple signs at major intersections in the area, we got a few leads that indicated Ares was ranging within the commercial and light industrial area along Georgesville Road west of 270. We honed in on two likely spots with food stations monitored by cell cams, hoping that he would track back, find the food, and set up a humane trapping opportunity. Standard practice: Get a sighting; bait the dog to an area; once the dog eats, get a trap out (if one hasn’t already been placed immediately). Ares cooperated.

On his first visit, he found the trap and smelled the food, but got immediately spooked off as people arrived for work. We expected him to come back in the quiet of the night, which he did, but he was reluctant to get even his front paws within the trap opening. However, he did stay around the trap for 30 minutes debating whether or not that jackpot was worth braving entering.

The next night, we felt he would return to the trap earlier (now that he knew where the good food was), and we made it worth his while with a spread of goodies trailing in the trap and behind the trip plate. See the video included here as he enters the trap completely, has second thoughts and immediately leaves the trap, and then quickly turns to enter again, succumbing to his hunger and the food waiting for him. Safe!

Amy Thomas, Jill Moore, and Yvonne Young took Ares under their wing and made sure that the effective intersection signs were out to generate sightings, that the food stations were well located and baited regularly, and that the trap was monitored and managed 24/7. The assistance from the community was pivotal, too, with thanks to Tyler and James at J.B. Hunt and to the folks at Steffens-Shultz who supported our efforts and made sure we had room to work to get Ares safe. And we always value the sighters who take the time and care to call.

Ares spent a comfortable and safe overnight tucked in with his new mom, and we are grateful he has another chance to start his new life with his new family in this kind community that helped get him home.

08/25/2025

Southeast Columbus, OH, area where Franklin, Fairfield, and Licking counties meet:

We’re on a cold trail for Gravy, a 20-pound Schnauzer, gray with some white, who went missing three weeks ago near Tussing Rd & Hill Rd N with a credible sighting at the YMCA near Refugee Rd & Gender Rd.

ALERT AREA: Reynoldsburg, Canal Wi******er, Pickerington, Independence Village, Blacklick Estates, Pickerington Ponds Metro Park, and adjacent areas.

Please keep an eye out in the area and on local pages for any mention of a dog like Gravy, and please consider sharing this post.

Call or text us at 614.377.1777 any time with a lead or message our page. Thank you!!

07/30/2025

CLEVELAND, OH: Cleveland is this little Shiba girl's city. Since at least May 16, she has been walking the streets of a 36-square-mile area from E 55th to E 149th, from Bratenahl to Cleveland Heights, with stops in the University Circle/Case/Hough neighborhoods along the way. We have been trying for her since Memorial Day, and today, July 29, she finally found our trap at E 123rd north of Superior and went in to safety.

She has been so tough to get safe, not conforming to the usual dog behavior that allows us to humanely trap dogs. Usually, when we get a dog eating, we have a high degree of confidence that the dog will come back again (usually soon) to that feeding station and then find a humane trap waiting, monitored 24/7 with a cellular trail cam. We got this dog on camera eating twice, but she did not come back either time and instead moved significant distances. She also did not respond to trapping on the fly, where we had eyes on her ourselves and placed a trap in her vicinity. Instead, she saw us, saw the trap, and made tracks, not to come back again later and check it out, as many dogs would. We tried four times to get her this way.

We finally found a vacant corner lot where we knew she would shelter at times in a neighborhood where she eventually showed a tendency to repeat visit and put out our trap and cam in the brush line, bungeed and baited, and waited/hoped she would find it. It took her 6 days, but she finally circled back around, found the trap baited and set, and went in. We are so grateful and relieved.

No owners, during this entire saga, have come forward looking for her. And she does not have a microchip. Safe Harbor Animal Rescue has brought her into their fold to give her the time, care, and attention she needs to eventually find a forever family. Thank you, Micci and Lisa.

Thank you to Anna Merriman who has been assisting with this Shiba search and whose Mutts in a Rut Rescue made precious room for a litter of puppies in desperate straits when we learned of their plight during the Shiba search.

Thank you to our LPR team who are a bulwark against the despair, doubt, and worry when things get hard, reminding of the fundamentals we follow to get dogs safe and keeping our compass at true north.

And so many thanks to the more than 100 sighters who responded to our large intersection signs placed in all corners of this dog's range and reached out with their sighting details. We've kept their numbers and will be sharing with them the good news in the coming days. And, Maude--thank you for going out of your way to help and turn on a dime today to get to the trap when this Shiba girl found her safety.

Address

PO Box 16383
Columbus, OH
43216

Telephone

+16143771777

Website

http://www.lostpetrecovery.org/

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