A Sociological Analysis Of Lost Pet Posters

I found this sign on a pole at the beginning of a path I was about to go down on my way home. I also saw the same sign in a bus shelter. I am interested in lost pet posters because in my everyday life, I see many posters on poles when walking down the street and I have always wondered if they actually work. Do lost pet posters actually bring awareness to society about the missing pet? Is it the owner’s or society’s fault for losing this cat? When people walk past lost pet posters, do they remember it hours or days later when they see a cat roaming the street and think about that poster, wondering if it is the same pet and try to get it back to its owner?

In a sociological imagination point of view, I have a dog and my dog could run away and

Animal shelters can become over populated and when not enough people are adopting the animals or claiming them as the pet they lost, sometimes this can result in the unwanted pets to be euthanized if they are in there for a long time to make space for the newer pets. “Durkheim argued that as society grew more populated, more complex, and more difficult to regulate, the underlying basis of solidarity or unity within the social order needed to evolve” (Little, 2017). As more and more people get pets, it becomes more difficult for animal shelters to care for and keep track of all the pets. This is where we need to come in to help. We need to take care of our pets. It would be a good idea for people to microchip their pets, get them trained, and not allowing them to roam, to prevent the pets getting lost and creating more of a problem in animal centers which are already over populated. It would also be beneficial for people to first search animal shelters when they are looking to adopt a pet. Many have not realized and helped this problem because we have been so habitualized in the way we take care of our animals that we have not changed the way we do take care of them. We accept the way society is because others have created it before us so we do not feel the need to change anything. Habitualization is when an action is repeated frequently that it becomes a pattern (Little, 2017). There is a pattern that keeps on happening of how pets end up in animal shelters. If pets keep on getting lost clearly there is a bigger issue