Written for somebody whose animal is missing right now. Nothing here asks you for anything, and none of it requires hiring us.
"A drone" has stopped meaning anything useful. What actually separates a neighbour with a consumer aircraft from a thermal pilot who finds animals for a living, and how to tell which one you are talking to.
Thermal is not a magic camera. Here is the weather it needs, the ground it reads, the cases it cannot help with, and the honest arithmetic on waiting a few more days.
Three frames of the same dog, captured at the same moment, in thermal, under zoom and under the spotlight — and why a search needs all three.
The practical first hours, in order — and the scams that arrive once your phone number is public, including the one that explains why nobody can track a microchip from a satellite.