We have a noticeboard with details regarding pets. Some of the catagories are lost and found, pets available and pets wanted. If you would like to place a notice or our noticeboard please drop it into the clinic at 58 Welcome Bay Road.

• Get some good close up photos of your pet now.
  
• Fence your section and ensure there are no escape routes and the gate is secure (for dogs).
  
• Never allow your dog to roam freely in the neighbourhood.
  
• Attach tags to your pet's collar with contact details (these can be ordered through the clinic).
  
• Always transport cats in a cage when travelling elsewhere. A cat can bolt when frightened by loud noises.
  
• Spey or neuter your pet. They are less likely to wander if "fixed".
  

• Search the property thoroughly. Cats and small dogs can get into some very strange places such as in cupboards or drawers, under houses, in garages, sheds and cars.
  
• Walk the neighbourhood, talk to everybody and leave your phone number. Call your pet's name.
  
• Put flyers everywhere - in letter boxes on lamp posts in the local shops.
  
• Phone the local vet clinics or check their noticeboards.
  
• Phone the SPCA on 5780 245.
  
• Phone Tauranga District Council on 5777 000. Tauranga Dog Pound (Animal Care Centre) Hewletts Road, Mt Maunganui (next to Vehicle Testing Station) is open Monday to Friday 12:30pm to 1:00pm and 4:00pm to 4:30pm. Dog Pound Ph 5777165.
  
• The Western Bay Council is 5718 008.
  If a clinic, pound or the SPCA has taken in any animal that even remotely resembles your pet visit them in person. Your description of your pet may be different to theirs.
  
• Leave a picture of your pet and your phone number at each shelter.
  
• Place a free advertisement in the Bay of Plenty Times (phone 578 3059). Also advertise in the Bay News and Weekend Sun.
  
• Check the newspaper for animals found.
  
• Contact the radio stations: Radioworks and Radio Coastline, phone 5710 444.
  
• Search the internet site for lost and found pets: www.petsonthenet.co.nz