Pet search and rescue worker Liu Yintong helped 1,300 lost pets home in 5 years
Born in 1991, pet search and rescue worker.
In 2016, Liu Yintong and two friends set up the initial pet search and rescue team to help nearby residents find lost pets in their spare time.
As the team grows stronger, a batch of high-tech imported instruments such as life detectors, infrared night radios, sonar sound collections, pipe endoscopes, unmanned detection vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and strong light flashlights have also become search and rescue teams. With new equipment, a professional and modern pet search and rescue team has grown up among the buildings in the city.
In five years, Liu Yintong and his team helped more than 1,300 clients retrieve their lost pets.
The lost white rural dog was named Douding.
Monitoring showed that it ran into the isolation belt in the middle of the main road of Beijing's Fourth Ring Road.
Liu Yintong and his colleagues searched back and forth with an infrared life detector, and finally found it with a broken hind leg on a viaduct.
Liu Yintong was a search and rescue team formed in 2016, when he was 25 years old.
The search and rescue team has no holidays, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
In the past five years, he and his team helped more than 1,300 clients retrieve their lost pets and rescued thousands of stray animals, in addition to cats and dogs, as well as birds, foxes, crocodiles, rabbits and monkeys. Thanks to the pennant. Full of a shelf.
Search and rescue teams are equipped with imported instruments such as life detectors
The first dog Liu Yintong retrieved was called the Black Panther, a German shepherd that he raised.
The Black Panther is a puppy that was eliminated by the police dog base. One year after I met the Black Panther, one morning, Liu Yintong, who was at work, received a call from his father, "The Black Panther is gone." He immediately asked for leave to go home. , "Probably the door was not closed properly, it ran out."
The search process went smoothly.
After posting notices and asking passers-by, Liu Yintong learned that the Panther had ran to the top floor of another building in the same community and was taken in by others.
In the afternoon, he recovered the panther.
After that, he had the idea of forming a pet search and rescue team.
In 2016, Liu Yintong and two friends who had lost dogs set up a charity search and rescue team to help nearby residents find lost pets in their spare time.
The success rate at that time was not high, only about 30%.
"First of all (search and rescue) should be based on our own (spare) time, and secondly, we increasingly feel that several people shouting and posting pet notices on the street are very old." Especially for cats and dogs that have run away , These methods are very inefficient.
Liu Yintong hopes to attract more team members and full-time to do this. “Only income can support a good operation.” About half a year later, a commercial team was established.
In the second year of the team’s establishment, the Panther became the first search dog. “It can track down the smell. We use dogs to find dogs.”
Since "Joining Work", Panthers have attended 68 times, directly or indirectly helping to find 62 pets.
The original team with only 6 members has grown stronger. The team began to be divided into two groups. In addition to the lost pet search and rescue team composed of 17 full-time members and more than 10 part-time members, there is also a stray animal capture and rescue team.
A batch of high-tech imported instruments such as life detectors, infrared night radio sounds, sonar sound, pipe endoscopes, unmanned detection vehicles, unmanned aerial vehicles, and strong light flashlights have also become new equipment for search and rescue teams.
Their scope of work has expanded from Beijing to the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region and even the whole country. Liu Yintong said that up to now, the successful recovery rate can reach about 70%.
The clients all have one thing in common-empathy
There are various reasons for pets being lost.
"Large dogs like the Golden Retriever and Labrador will open the door by themselves; some owners walk the dog without a leash, and the dog will run when frightened on the road; some owners will run out without closing the door without closing the door; There are accidents after fostering," Liu Yintong said.
Among Liu Yintong's clients, there are men, women and children, but they all have one thing in common-empathy. "They rarely find pets because of the value of animals, most of them are sentimental."
"An old man, three children are not around. He doesn't want a babysitter. A black cat named'Seventeen' has accompanied him for nearly 20 years. We were in a building next door in the early morning of the fourth day when Seventeen was lost. Found it upstairs." said Zhang Chen, the executive captain of the pet search and rescue team.
During the epidemic, if doctors who supported Wuhan come to ask for help, or the elderly from low-income households in difficulties at home, or lost a dog who has accompanied him for more than ten years, Liu Yintong will provide free services.
There are only two results of pet hunting.
The owner who finds the pet cries, and the one who cannot find it also cries.
In the early autumn of 2019, a woman found Liu Yintong and said that she had lost a golden retriever.
After a brief communication, Liu Yintong learned that the dog was her husband's relic. After the husband had a car accident, the dog became her only thought.
"She treats dogs the same way she treats her own children."
The dog was lost at the North Third Ring Road. Liu Yintong used monitoring to determine the approximate location of the dog. After that, he visited from house to house and locked himself in a community. "This community is adjacent to the community where our client lost the dog. The dog was killed by others." Picked it up."
Liu Yintong and his colleague found the house of the dog picker. The other party did not admit it, but the child said that "the dog was taken away by a friend".
The dog was finally found and returned to the original owner. The owner cried excitedly, "Because she has just had an operation in her throat, she can't speak, and she can't cry anymore." Liu Yintong likes to record a video of her owner and pet who have reunited after a long time "Leave a memorial."
The thank you pennants are filled with a shelf
In addition to cats and dogs, the animals rescued by the team include birds, foxes, crocodiles, peacocks, rabbits and monkeys raised by people or in the wild.
"The squirrel is the hardest thing to find, because it is usually found on some lush pine trees, which is not easy to observe, and its long hair will cover itself. The best thing to find is the breed of dog."
Their work is not only limited to the city, sometimes they also carry out field rescues.
Some cats can't climb up to the tip of a ten-meter tree, or fall into a well more than ten meters deep, and can't get up; some squat on the pier of the viaduct, or lie on the bottom of the cliff.
In order to cope with these situations, there are a group of special players in the team who receive special technical training, such as rappelling, entering the wild mountain, overturning the wall or climbing the tree.
The team has no holidays, 365 days a year, 24 hours a day, "A phone call, whether it is day or night, we immediately bring equipment, within two hours, anywhere in Beijing can be reached."
Because cats like to hang out at night, the best time to find a cat is at night.
When several team members wear camouflage or black clothes and show up in the wasteland of the community at night, they will occasionally be mistaken for thieves.
Liu Yintong believes that in order to do this job, we must first love animals, and then we need keen insight and good physical fitness.
In the team, the oldest player is 39 years old, most of them are between 25 and 35. They also have pets at home. Some are retired armed police, some are graduates from martial arts school, some are from the international basketball team, and some are good at playing with A dog trainer who "communicates" with animals.
"We are born to protect." Zhang Chen said.
In five years, the team recovered more than 1,300 pets and rescued between 1,000 and 2,000 pets.
The thank you pennants they received filled a shelf.
There is a gratitude handed over by the owners—a hair ball made of cat hair, a rice bowl where the dog eats, and a pinch of ashes after the dog’s death.
Beijing News reporter Peng Chong and intern Xie Jingwen