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Welcome to Happy Tails... |
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Milo disappeared shortly after his owner Stacey had his coat trimmed! As a result She contacted Animal Search UK and registered Milo on this free web site. Unfortunately the photos that Stacy had of Milo were not too clear and the search Team worked hard to enhance the images as much as possible. Stacey then discussed the disappearance with Tom our Founder and it was decided that Animal Search UK would carry out a poster campaign to help with the search for Milo. As usual the 24/7 Animal Search UK call centre team were informed and waited patiently to receive information. Then 2 weeks and 4 days after disappearing we received a call from a member of the public that had seen one of the Animal Search UK posters - 5 minutes walk from Milo’s home to say that they thought they has seen a cat fitting his description visiting their garden in recent days. Our call centre team member immediately telephoned Stacey and passed on the information, thankfully the sighting was confirmed as being the missing Milo and Stacey was reunited with her missing family member a short time later. This case demonstrates that if owners do not have very good photo of their pet then they need not worry because we can still have positive outcomes. To discuss the benefits of a poster campaign using our free phone number, do not hesitate to call Tom on 0788 43 169 43 or send us an email to ask for more details Support Us |
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Milo Safely Returned |
Tibby The Cat Tibby – went missing 4th February 2008 whilst being carried to the vets surgery in her basket. Owner Mr Gadd and his wife were heartbroken and turned to AnimalsearchUK for help and advice. A poster campaign was swiftly carried out with Mr Gadd spending every spare minute displaying posters and handing our leaflets. It wasn’t long before our call centre had regular sightings in a specific area but alas when Mr Gadd arrived each time Tibby was nowhere to be seen. The lastest service to be offered to owners by AnimalsearchUK is loan of a cat trap for a small fee. The trap is a medium sized cage with a door that closes when the cat enters to eat some food left as bait. Tibby did reappear in the garden the trap was left in and managed to eat the food without setting off the trap door! Luckily the owners of the garden that had been keeping an eye on the trap managed to coax Tibby into their house and she was soon reunited with a very relieved Mr and Mrs Gadd.
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Tibby safe and sound ...
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Pasha’s story is not as straightforward as some missing cat tales. She was heavily pregnant when she suddenly disappeared and her owner Maggie was desperately worried about the imminent birth of the kittens and Pasha’s welfare. Convinced that Pasha had been stolen she turned to Animal Search UK to seek advice from founder and former police officer Tom Watkins for advice and guidance. After several telephone conversations we decided to carry out a poster campaign hoping that someone who was withholding information would come forward. The poster printing team at Animal Search UK designed a poster/leaflets and they were dispatched overnight. Once they arrived Maggie selected locations to display them and the call centre were put on standby to receive information. Many telephone discussions later between Tom and Maggie and after following up some false leads there was a phone call an amazing 2 months later from a gentleman who told the Animal Search UK team member in the call centre that he had seen Pasha and managed to coax her into his house. Hardly believing what she heard, Maggie dashed around to his house to find Pasha looking a bit scruffy and minus the kittens but apart from that safe and well! Someone had replaced her collar with another so it was obvious that she had been in someone else’s hands. Unfortunately the kittens have never been found-but thankfully Pasha is back to her old self and enjoying life with her mum- Maggie. Support Us |
Pasha - back at home ...
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Breaking News... Elvis found alive & well... Elvis – missing on 17th Feb, Elvis is a 5-month-old Staffy puppy who disappeared from him home in Tile Hill, Coventry on 17th February. He escaped through a hole in this garden fence with his sister and seemed to vanish. Elvis’s sister was soon handed in to a local police station, but Elvis was still nowhere to be found. A member of the public saw Elvis on an Animal Search UK poster and knew of someone locally that had acquired a new dog just like Elvis. They phoned the Animal Search UK 24 hour call centre with the sighting and after a few more enquiries Elvis was found after being bought by someone unaware that he was missing from home. On explaining the circumstances to Elvis’s new owner Heidi was able to collect Elvis, bring him home and let him settle back in to the swing of family life. Support Us |
Elvis is alive !
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Geordie a Ginger Tom... Geordie a Ginger Tom went missing on 12th December 2007 resulting in a miserable Christmas for his owner Bonita from Near Dudley in the West Midlands. She turned to Tom for advice and registered Geordie on the Animalsearchuk Website. Although Geordie wasn’t insured Bonita decided to pay for a wide-scale poster and leaflet campaign herself and the laser printer at the HQ leapt into action. After many false leads and phone calls between Tom and Bonita discussing different theories about what could have happened to Geordie things were not looking good. The search continued and following our advice never to give up hope- all Bonita’s prayers were answered in March 2008 when Geordie turned up in her garden as if nothing had happened. When Bonita rang to at 08.30 that morning to tell him he was as speechless as her! What a result!
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Geordie AWOL for 3 months !
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Rufus lives in a lovely village called Tarrington Herefordshire not too far from the Animal Search UK Headquarters. Being an adventurous little cat he decided on 19th November 2007 that he would explore the other areas near to where he lived. However, his journey did not involve telling his human Mum Sharon where he was about to go. After a day without seeing Rufus and after he had missed a few meals Sharon set to work displaying posters in the village. When nearly two weeks had passed with no news Tom, Founder of Animal Search UK, saw one of her posters and called Sharon to offer some free advice. Because Sharon had not yet had any positive sightings of Rufus she decided to try some of the professional posters and leaflets from Animal Search UK, with the added benefit of the 24 hour 7 days per week free phone number on them. Following Tom’s advice the new posters were spread out a little further-a-field than the first batch that Sharon had made and using a photo that Sharon had not been able to use in her posters because it was only on her mobile phone. After two days of the Animal Search UK poster being displayed two sightings were received by the call centre team pinpointing an area a few miles away from Rufus’s home. A gardener who had seen Rufus while he was out working gave a good description and it wasn’t long before Sharon arrived; to find the caller had managed to safely capture Rufus in a cat basket.A total of 3 weeks after he went missing. After a gentle word in his ear Rufus has promised not to explore so far from home again and even made the local paper having a cuddle with Sharon. Support Us |
Rufus The Explorer !
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Charlie the explorer Charlie dissapeared from his home in Hull over the Christmas period 2007. The tail of his dissapearance is extraodinary and goes to show how tough cats can be...read on for the full amazing story! Charlie climbed into a neighbour's car engine compartment at his home in Hull and travel cross-country to the Mundford area of Norfolk. Charlie's owners posted his details onto the Free Advertising Service from Animal Search UK and used the optional Poster Printing service, which display a free phone number that is connected to a call centre that's open 24/7. Animal Search UK were also told that the owners Nikki and John Sheppard thought that Charlie would have travelled to the Mundford area under their neighbours car bonnet. Because a neighbour has seen a cat jump out of his engine compartment when he opened it to refill his washer bottle at his mothers house in HULL. Animal Search UK sent posters to the Mundford area and enlisted the help of Mundford Primary school and their pupils in putting up posters and taking home leaflets. A few weeks later, the Animal Search UK call centre received a phone call that a man had Charlie and was looking after him. Animal Search UK then alerted John and Nikki Sheppard and they drove all the way to Mundford to be happily reunited with Charlie, who is now settling back in (quite comfortably) at home. Support Us |
Charlie - back at home ...
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Oscar goes AWOL Animal Search UK's Free Missing Pet Advertising Service has played a vital role in the reuniting of a Oscar with his owner after being missing for 5 months. Oscar went missing from his home in Craven Arms, Shropshire on the 7th August 2007. It looked like his Owner Martine would never see him again, that was until Animal Search UK were contacted by a lady living in Dilwyn, Herefordshire, saying she had been looking after a cat who had mysteriously appeared on a farm a short while after Oscar had been reported missing. Since November, Kelly Smith from Dilwyn has been looking after Oscar whilst waiting for a space for him at a cat's home. Oscar had been fending for himself on a farm in Kelly's local area but when he started to look a bit skinny she took him in and treated him as if he were her own pet. It was only last week after hearing about the www.animalsearchuk.com Free Missing Pet Advertising Service website that she logged on to the website using a friends computer and found an advert for a missing cat fitting the description of the one she had been looking after. Kelly got in touch with Animal Search UK, and we quickly established that the cat she had been looking after was in fact Oscar from Shropshire. No one knows how Oscar managed to travel over the county borders, or how he managed to find his way to a farm in the middle of a quiet country village The small specialist team at Animalsearchuk HQ contacted Martine passing on the details allowing her and Oscar's temporary keeper to contact each other, Oscar was safely returned home on the weekend of 26th January 2008. He is settling back into the swing of his home life, and enjoying the attention of his Mum after not seeing her (but instantly recognising her) after 5 months. Support Us |
5 Months without his Mum until now- Thanks to Animal Search UK...
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