It’s something we never expected to find ourselves involved in, but it’s become one of the most heartening parts of the gig. Thanks for your post and let me add a shout-out to community members who I know make a habit of checking the page to see if they can help make connections (like the ones who looked at the “Found Chicken” post a few days ago and immediately recognized “Lost Chicken” Fritz from more than a few days earlier).
Sometimes the lost AND found posts for the same pet wind up in our mailbox simultaneously, so we get them connected without the posts ever having turned up on the site. And recently, there was another case in which we wound up making connections off-site … someone sent a note about a cat killed on the road, and before I posted it, we heard from what was obviously the cat’s owner, so I had to break the news to her directly. She said she was thankful to at least know what happened. Then I heard directly from the driver who had hit her cat, and when I told that person that we’d received a note from someone else AND the owner, the driver wanted to send the cat’s owner a message, which we forwarded … and then we were asked to forward a reply.
The Internet gets a bad rap for a lot but we try to maximize its connection for good when we can.
-Tracy
