Lost Dog Toolkit

Short List of Essentials

• Large flashlight with batteries.
• Cell phones or fully charged walkie-talkies.
• Staple guns with extra staples on your person.
• Lost dog flyers.
• Extra leash, collar or harness.

For Night Searches

• Proper weather gear for you and your hound.
• Reflective wear for humans and greys. If you cannot locate reflectors or lights for a collar, carry a glow-stick.

Other Things for Kits

• Map for area and a highlighter.
• Food bowls and cans of wet, smelly food or tuna and smelly treats.
• Pens and paper.
• Small pocket mirror for spooked hounds with whom you can't make eye contact.
• Clear tape for business windows.
• Change of socks and shoes.
• Bug spray.
• Small first aid kit containing items for both people and dogs.
• Extra batteries for flash lights.
• Car charger for cell phones.
• Squawkers.