If your pet is missing:
Call the Somerville Animal Control Office: 617-625-6600 ext. 2190
Check all the area animal hospitals by phone
Check all of the shelters up to 3 towns away, ALL surrounding towns, 3 in each direction
After 48 hours, the Animal Control Officers’ Association of Massachusetts (ACOAM) will issue a SABER alert (Safe Animal By Emergency Response). Guidelines to activate available on the SABER webpage.
Contact local shelters because they have lost and found lists and private folk who pick up a dog will often contact the shelters: MSPCA; ARL; Lowell Humane Society
Thanks to Melissa McCue for the above suggestions for Somerville pet owners whose pets are missing are from.
You can also post information about missing or found pets to the Somerville Dog Owners Group discussion group on google groups.
Please contact Michèle to post information about missing and found pets on this page.
Skinny chocolate lab named Luca escaped fom his collar near Digity Dog day care on Somerville ave in union sq tonight. If found please call 617-967-7879 or 860-729-6603. Luca is a skinny male chocolate lab and is not wearing a collar but he does have a chip.
via e-mail
A black French Bull Dog disappeared on Tuesday evening in the area of Concord Avenue in Somerville (map). He was wearing a turquoise sweat shirt and had a plaid collar on with moose on it.
He answers to the name of Louie.
Please call the dog's owner, Courtney (512-755-4286), or her father, Doyle (512-755-4351), with any information.
Two dogs, a beagle and a bassett hound, without tags were found in Somerville on Josephine Ave around noon on Halloween. The person who found them, having called animal control and a rescue, is keeping them until at least Monday, when Animal Control opens again.
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Copper and Coby escaped under a fence in Bedford, MA on Tuesday, October 13. The were last seen in Lexington, MA.
(via somdog discussion group)
UPDATE 5:00 p.m. Happy news! Leyla is home! Her owner is very appreciative to everyone who offered advice or helped looked or just kept an eye open for her.
Name: Layla, Australian Sheppard mix, ~30lbs
color: Black/light brown
Got loose from her collar so is not wearing her tags, although IS micro chipped. Very calm tempered, sweet girl but may be disoriented after being lost. Last seen on Washington st. near McGrath Highway in Somerville.
She went missing on Wed. Sept. 2nd and is still missing. Please contact Kristen @ 248-379-7666 with any information. Thank you!
UPDATE 9:00 p.m.:The Animal Control Officer has identified the dog and is checking with his owner to make sure he has returned home.
This dog has been seen two nights in a row in West Somerville at North Street and Fairfax Street:
Kind folks have tried to get the little guy come in so he could have some food, water, and shelter, but they say they couldn't get him to come anywhere near the door or even near food and water that they placed on the ground outside. They also couldn't get close enough to look at his tags, but he was wearing a blue metallic tag in the shape of a bone.
via FellsDOG (January 4, 2009)
A shepherd mix with fluffy fur around the head was seen this morning in the Middlesex Fells near the Long Pond parking lot on the cranberry pond path.
Hi all, I came across a lost dog this morning on the cranberry pond path, near Long Pond Parking lot. It looked to be a shepherd mix. He/she was about the size of a shepherd but extremely skinny. I could see the ribs and pelvic bone clearly. He/she had tags I could hear clinking but couldn't get close enough to read them. Wouldn't even come close for a treat. Seemed to like my dog though. It could've been an older dog but the fluffy fur around the head made it seem younger. Other than the skinnyness seemed to have good energy as he darted one way for a while then came back and proceeded down the trail. I tried to report it to the Winchester animal control thinking someone would've called there first but they were closed until Monday. I saw this dog @9:30 on Sunday Jan 4th. I figured one of you may know the dog or the owner. He/she is still out there in the Fells. Thanks.
You know that there is a forum for posting lost and found dogs on the Somerville Dog Owners Group's website. April Terrio, the City of Somerville's Animal Control Officer (ACO) often posts pets that have been turned in to her on the lost and found forum. There is also a forum exclusively for the ACO to post pets that are available for adoption from the City.
But did you know that April also posts lost and and found pets and pets available for adoption on the Animal Control page on the City's website? Check it out!
I am delighted to share the happy news I received from the father of the Tufts University student whose dog, a five-month old boxer puppy was stolen from Adams Street in Medford (just across the Somerville line), near Tufts, on June 9, 2005.
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 00:27:41 -0400
Subject: The Dog ACE, stolen June 9th in Medford has been returnedEveryone;
Incredibly, my son's dog has been returned. A lady from East Boston had the dog. Her brother bought it for $220 from a teenager in front of a pet store in Medford. She saw the ads in the paper and the flyers that were posted (everywhere). It took her a couple of weeks to do the right thing and return the dog, but she did on Sunday. There were a couple of theories on who took the dog. At this point everyone is just happy that the dog is back. My son Robert and I want to thank everyone for their concern and support. Ace is back home with Robert and his Tufts room mates. All of them play football for Tufts. Please come by and see a game this fall. I hear they want to make Ace the unofficial mascot!
George
UPDATE 14 July 2005: Ace has been found! I expect to receive (and post) details tomorrow!
Update 08 November 2004: The Craigslist posting about the found Dachshund has been deleted. I hope that means the little guy has found his way home!
