lost animal
resource group
Finding, Trapping and Reuniting Animals and Their Families
Based in Maryland, serving the Mid-Atlantic Area
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Our mission is to reunite lost pets with their families through community awareness, compassionate support and a dedicated growing volunteer network.
We are a group of ethical, trained and compassionate animal lovers that want to help reunite your lost pet with your family.
Contact us ASAP if you have lost your pet!
The sooner you can engage help, coordinate resources, get posters out, broadcast over social media and start working SMARTly to help bring your pet home, the better.
Your donations help us rescue more animals! Thank you!
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Lost Animal Resource Group - LARG
tel:+14433773599
When your pet goes missing, you need honest, ethical help, dedicated to bringing your pet home.
Good evening everyone, Bob here! ![]()
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I wanted to apologize if I’ve missed any text or fb messages or requests especially lately. I think I have missed a few texts or messages asking for help, so please reach out again if I/we haven’t responded.![]()
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Denise B Harris and I, and all of our friends and volunteers at Lost Animal Resource Group - LARG, are overwhelmed with the amount of lost pets, especially lately.![]()
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I also wanted to kind of let everyone know a little bit about who I am, including rescue. ![]()
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I have an IT company I need to grow back up because the stupid shut downs caused us to lose a good portion of business. If you or someone you know needs excellent IT support, please let us know at www.totaltechmd.com or Total Technology Solutions. So, yes I have a full time stressful job as a business owner struggling to survive. We do amazing work and would love to help fix your IT issues or help bring you into the 21st century to streamline and reduce costs. ![]()
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My wife and I have some family issues that we are dealing with due to our aging amazing family members that also take a good bit of our time, but family is more important than anything. We value our friends and volunteers so much; we can’t do this without you. ![]()
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Denise and I trap, coach, help as many families as we can but there are more families needing help than we can manage, which is where volunteers step up.![]()
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But we do need more help, especially with trapping which is difficult because it means going out at 2am to recover a lost pet! But we’re happy to accept any help at all. ![]()
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If you are able to help and volunteer, please visit www.largcares.org/contact. ![]()
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Please know that if you have a lost pet or see a stray animal, we will do our best to help with limited resources but we care more about the animal than we do about EGO or GREED or DRAMA that many like to push. ![]()
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📣 Baltimore MD - Gracie's six week adventure is over! 🙌🏼🙌🏼![]()
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Lisa had a minor car accident late at night on 2/9/24, and when the officer opened the door to check on her, sweet Gracie escaped in a panic, pulling out of her collar‼️ ![]()
Away she ran across the highway, and Lisa lost sight of her in the dark.🙁![]()
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Lisa contacted LARG, and Denise began coaching her with our best practices. Gracie was looking for her, and she would likely stay near the accident site where they were last together. ![]()
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Lisa left some scent items from home along with food in a quiet safe spot nearby. She posted flyers & spread the word on social media.![]()
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After some time passed with no sightings, Bob & K9 Carly were ready to track! K9Carly tracked along the fence by Interstate 83 but then the terrain was too difficult to navigate, so they stopped after a mile and a half and gave Lisa a direction of travel and area to focus on. There was enough evidence to assure that she was still around there, and more flyers were posted. ![]()
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Sarah & Kurt live very close to the end of the track Bob & Carly did--they saw a dog on their ring cam and posted it on social media.![]()
Immediately the connection was made--that's GRACIE! 🙌🏼![]()
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They saw her a couple of times, and we went out & placed the trap with yummy food. Locked open at first to make sure she'd go in easily & eat.![]()
Success - she was a fan of the chicken & cheese! ![]()
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The trap went live last night, with scent from home, Royal Farms chicken, and cheese. At 4:30am, sweet Gracie showed up hungry, went straight in, and her 6️⃣ week walkabout was OVER! ![]()
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From now on, Gracie and her 2 fur-siblings will be TETHERED when traveling! It only takes a split second for a fearful pet to get away 🚨![]()
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✨SO MUCH thanks going out to Sarah & Kurt, and to Gracie's mom Lisa who did everything as advised.![]()
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📣 PING is finally safe after EIGHTEEN MONTHS on the run!! This was definitely a MIRACLE 🙌🏼 ![]()
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Cindy Wei and her husband Nick were visiting in Rosedale, MD for their wedding when Ping got out and took off. A couple of sightings, and then Ping disappeared. Cindy and Nick never gave up and watched the lost and found pages daily. LARG was coaching them on what to do and we NEVER give up! 🐾![]()
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After a year with no sightings, she was seen in Baltimore - but then disappeared again. Ping had been a street dog in China, so she knows how to hide, stay safe and survive on her own. ![]()
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More posters went up in the hopes someone would see her, but there was nothing for a few more months. Then someone on Trimble road in Harford county saw her and reached out. ‼️This is about 20 MILES away from where she got out (the clearings for the power lines are easily used by these dogs to travel long distances). ![]()
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Lauren and her husband who live there were so gracious and caring! 🥰 They let us put a trap on their back porch, probably thinking it would be a few days before we trapped her. They are so amazing to care so much and help.![]()
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But Ping had other ideas, and the process took almost a month. She was curious but wary of the trap - but ate the food out front of the trap. She wouldn’t go very far in, being a street dog she sensed danger. We moved the trap, put tarps around the trap because it rained every day for a while, then strong winds for several days making it hard to make progress. Very slowly and gradually we moved the food inch by inch daily towards the back of the trap. She would eat, but very cautiously, snapping the food up & turning immediately and running out. 🚨![]()
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Knowing we had to change something up, we decided to try sardines thinking that she was out so long she was probably eating at the cat colony and used to food cats like. ![]()
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Well that night she went all the way in, she must love sardines!! We were THRILLED to see her going all the way in. We kept everything consistent because we knew that any change could push her away or make it take more time to get her accustomed to the new situation.![]()
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We decided that tonight was the night. We met and set the trap at the usual time, modified the trap a little but put the same food in the same place and waited. Ping came about the same time but was nervous at the tiny changes we made. It took her a few minutes of going to the trap, leaving, coming back, putting us on pins and needles hoping and praying she would go in….![]()
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And then, she finally went in, Nick took off running, Bob’s beat up old minivan peeled wheels getting to the trap (we always stay as far as possible away so the target pet doesn’t smell, see or hear us), and got to the trap so we could make sure she couldn’t push her way out.![]()
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We arrived at the trap, and Ping was barking, not knowing what was going on. In survival mode & after 1️⃣8️⃣ months, she didn’t recognize her mom and dad. We carried her in the trap to the van for transport and she started to calm down, likely beginning to recognize her family. ❤️![]()
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We transferred her to a crate and then to home to relax and decompress. Soon she’ll see the vet to get checked out. ![]()
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▶️ At LARG, we LOVE happy endings, especially after 18 months for a very skittish pup. ![]()
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Does anyone recognize this sweet but very scared girl?![]()
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She was running on N Calhoun street in Baltimore city for a few weeks, running in the streets. People were putting food and water out for her, but she was running scared from everybody. Someone was finally able to get her contained in their house and I went and picked her up (of course that “person” required money to get her). She is very scared. The people living there, believe that a family who had her moved and just left her there and she doesn’t appear to have been treated that well.![]()
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She is relaxing at our house for now, but we are looking for a foster or adopter, hoping to go through a local rescue. She will let you pet her and touch her without an issue, but nervous at first. She has been around dogs and cats and is fine with them and is decompressing nicely.![]()
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If you want to foster or adopt this beautiful little girl, please reach out![]()
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Lost Pet Searches - Tracking
NOT a LARG service! Tracking provided by our valuable Resources and others that have been professionally trained. These ethical trackers have gone through rigorous training WITH their dogs.
Humane Trapping
Humane trapping involves getting sightings through posters and social media, then setting feeding stations and cameras and then a humane trap for those animals that can’t be brought home through TRUST.
Foster & Adoption Services
You can find a great foster pet or adopt a pet from local rescue groups in your area. Please consider rescue for your next furry family member!
