SOUTH ABINGTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lori Lee is the owner of two beautiful great danes and she\u2019s been looking for them since Monday.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s been scouring the area every minute she can and based on some eye-witness tips, ended up looking around mount bethel church.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re skittish. They\u2019re running. They\u2019re not coming to anybody,” Lee explained. “I know that they\u2019re both alive and they\u2019re both here, so that that\u2019s good.\u201d<\/p>\n
She\u2019s just one example of pets running away, and in the winter, the amount of time out in the cold becomes a matter of life and death. But finding a lost pet isn\u2019t as easy as running up to them, it\u2019s actually the worst thing you can do.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey also switch into what they call survival mode,” Phillips explained. “So even if it\u2019s your dog and you see it, say the next day, you can\u2019t just walk right over to it, because if it\u2019s in survival mode, it may not even recognize you. It\u2019s definitely going to be afraid of all humans, possibly other animals coming around.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meg Phillips has volunteered at the Griffin Pond animal shelter for over a decade, and she said that there was something everyone should do first if looking for a lost pet.<\/p>\n
\u201cFirst and foremost, notify all the shelters and everything else,” continued Phillips. “Shelters, rescues, send them pictures of your animal. Explain where you\u2019re from, the location, the date, the time. Get it posted all over Facebook, there are a ton of lost pet pages on there, put it on each and every one.\u201d<\/p>\n
Once posting everywhere you can and assuming your pet is trained and microchipped, she said you should set up feeding stations, contact dog recovery services or possibly even someone with a drone.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s what Lori did. Billy Gabriel from A1 Affordable Chimney met with her to help search and from the air looked for any sign of the great danes. Eyewitness reports said that the dogs had porcupine spines on their face and seemed pretty beat up, but alive, and Lori said that it\u2019s because of the community that she\u2019s optimistic.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had people, hundreds of people have sightings and pictures and contacts and literally volunteers \u2013 unprompted, walking the areas, riding the areas, walking the trails. I mean, I couldn\u2019t ask for more, honestly, it\u2019s been heartfelt. It means a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
While they didn\u2019t find anything today, Lori is going to keep searching. Not just for some animals, but for family. Family she would do anything for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH ABINGTON, LACKAWANNA CO. (WOLF) \u2014 Lori Lee is the owner of two beautiful great danes and she\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[178,180,179],"class_list":["post-40360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}