Found! - In Time

Most lost animals are soon found and sheltered by someone. It may be the County Animal Care Center, the Humane Society, or an animal person. Traffic fatalities and wild animals claim some. A few highly desired breeds are usually not "lost" but, in fact, have probably been stolen for re-sale. There is a ready black market for the higher priced breeds that are currently the "in" pet to own.

It is important to realize that "advertising" a lost pet, while one of the many things that you should do, is not a particularly effective way to find your lost pet. The general public does not pay much attention to these ads and they do not become actively involved in a search. The best that you can hope for is that if someone does find a pet and remembers a "Lost Pet" sign on a telephone pole or at the Laundromat that they will return to where they saw the sign to look for a phone number. This is essentially a "passive" method to try to locate your lost pet.

It is our belief that if you have lost a pet, the odds are great that someone, somewhere is sheltering your pet. In the case of the County and the Humane Society it is important to check with them daily as they receive new animals seven days a week and they also euthanize unclaimed animals within a matter of 3 to 7 days.

Time is of the essence. The easiest way to search for a lost animal is to sit in the comfort of your own home, or at a friends, and search the one single source where you can view color photographs of all animals that have been found and are being sheltered. This is the "active" method to locate a missing pet. You can easily search for your pet on the FOUND! World Wide Web site at www.found-pets.org without having to trudge through a noisy, smelly, kennel looking at hundreds of animals that don’t look anything like your pet.

Simply select one of the 31categories of animals at the FOUND! Web site and cut the search down to the few animals that actually resemble yours. There is even "New!" icon to indicate that this is the first day that this animal has appeared on the FOUND! Web site. This enables you to just look at the new additions after you have reviewed all of the animals in your category during your first visit. This means that you only need to spend a minute or two each day looking for your lost pet! A minute or two to review sheltered animals from multiple sources in all parts of town. There is no easier way to locate a lost pet!

We do strongly suggest however, that you do everything possible that you can to try to locate your lost pet in addition to viewing the photos on the FOUND! Web site. This includes walking your neighborhood and talking with every one you see, putting up neighborhood signs, placing ads in newspapers, and visits to the Humane Society and the County Animal Control Centers. Leave no stone unturned.

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