Say your yard gate was latched some time ago, but your dog is somehow gone with no warning and no sound. Your first reaction is panic. Then you find yourself thinking, “How much will finding him cost when you have no spare money set aside for something like this?”
Printing flyers and the petrol for driving around to local shelters cost money. You have to take a day off work to keep looking on top of it. It adds to expenses you were not expecting in your monthly budget.
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The obvious next steps all cost money
A missing pet search starts with putting flyers on telephone poles and shop windows. You post it on social media and have to pay someone to push the post for more reach. Then comes the drive to nearby shelters, as you are hoping somebody has already brought your dog in.
Your dog going missing can turn a completely ordinary month into a month with an unexpected bill, as you need to spend money and take time away from work. But the effort is not always wasted. People who pass by where you posted flyers, and those who saw your social media post, might have seen your dog and can let you know.
A boosted post increases the chances of finding your dog faster by reaching more people who wouldn’t have seen the post without the boost. The problem is, what if people aren’t in the right place at the right time, and you need to spend more and put in more effort.
The free option is the one that reaches furthest
Here is why PawBoost is the better option. A PawBoost alert costs you nothing to post. A report is sent as a local alert to the Facebook page for your zip code and to email subscribers in the area. Nearby app members also get the alert, so the message isn’t limited to people who follow you.
According to PawBoost’s own reported data, 45% of people who post a pet on PawBoost eventually mark the post as reunited. It definitely looks good when the alternative is paying for flyers and promoted posts.
A flyer you pasted will only be useful if enough people walk by and see it. A boosted post can also turn out to be useless if people just scroll past without seeing it. But the PawBoost alert goes out to everyone in the local area at no extra charge.
If an emergency like a missing dog comes up when you are waiting for payday and are low on budget, you start to panic even more. Getting the alert out with PawBoost for free means your search starts before you even think of spending money on other things.
Posting an alert costs nothing, but boosting a post does
Posting the alert on many pet platforms is free, but they usually also have an optional boosting service that they charge for. All boosted social posts cost you money to reach more people. The PawBoost alert goes beyond the person’s own followers and puts the missing pet in front of people nearby.
Keeping a recent photo of the dog on the phone makes the process easier and faster. The alert can go out as the search is getting underway, and you dont have to wait for flyers to be printed or a paid post to be approved.
You don’t need to spend your money just because a pet has gone missing. You can paste flyers and use other paid options later if they are needed after the alert is out and the search has started.
It costs nothing but may be the first thing worth trying
There are some nights when the last thing you want to think about is another unexpected expense. The list of emergency expenses no one prepares for has ‘a missing pet’ as one of the unexpected expenses. But when your pet is missing, you have one option that does not require you to spend any money.
45% of people who post a missing pet alert through PawBoost eventually mark the post as reunited with the pet. The search can start in minutes with a photo and a free PawBoost alert while there is still time to get the word out locally. As the alert costs nothing, you don’t have a financial decision to make before the search begins.
