A Way Home For Dogs, a San Diego woman’s new foundation that offers free tracking and recovering guidance and services to discover missing family dogs and strays, is making headlines.
When Babs Fry lost a pregnant terrier mix dog she was fostering at her Jamul ranch in eastern San Diego County, she first learned about professional pet tracking.
Fry told the San Diego Union-Tribune, “I lost a puppy and was really afraid and didn’t think anyone would be able to catch her. then I got a call from this woman and I thought she was insane. But sure enough, that dog was in a trap in my driveway 10 days later.
Fry thinks that in the seven years after she began her tracking and trapper training, she has assisted in the recovery of hundreds, if not thousands, of dogs around Southern California and elsewhere.
Her original guidance on becoming better has been published in the New York Post and on César Millán’s Dog Whisperer website.
On the basis of the missing dog’s breed, temperament, prior behavior, and how it got lost, Fry calls pet owners and develops individualized recovery programs.
Fry uses field cameras, rotisserie chickens, clothing with familiar scents, humane trapping cages, and other tools to locate lost pets in 10% of her instances.
Although some recovery missions can take a month or longer, most only take three to five days.
