Tips on Finding Your Lost Pet

Check our steps below to help you find your lost pet quick!

Submit a Lost or Found Pet Report! This form is not sent to other shelter locations. Please also contact other local shelters (list below).
Ask family, friends, and neighbors to help you search for your pet as soon as you realize your pet is missing. Be sure to check around your yard and under your deck.
For a lost indoor-only or timid cat, think like a cat and look at every hiding spot possible in your yard and your close neighbors. Lost cats will remain hidden and quiet. Search your house and yard immediately. Lost cats tend to remain hidden and very quiet and a lot of times right around the house.
Walk, bike, drive, or jog through your neighborhood every day and more than once to look for your missing pet.
Place clothing, toys, litter box, and other items familiar to your pet outside in your yard where she/he might smell them.
Put signs around the neighborhood or area where your pet was last seen. Include a photo and description of your pet, your phone number, and when your pet disappeared. Make sure you have voicemail set up to take any messages. You can download our Lost Pet Poster template. Below you find additional information on getting support your area.
Contact your local animal control agency, animal shelters and police stations. File a lost pet report and ask where your animal will be taken if it’s picked up by one of these agencies.
If your pet is microchipped, contact the microchip company and have them put a “lost or stolen” alert on the pet’s microchip so that if it is scanned by a shelter or veterinarian, they will know that a concerned owner is looking for that pet.
Use online resources. Post your lost pet online at IowaPetAlert.com, Craigslist and Nextdoor.com (or on the Nextdoor app), and on social media sites. Check those sites continuously for found pets. You can also visit the Missing Pet Partnership site for additional tips and strategies.
Lost Found Pets Pittsburgh and Lost Dogs Pittsburgh on Facebook | Craigslist Lost & Found | Petfinder | Nextdoor Pet Directory | PIP | Finding Rover
If permitted, post your flyers at businesses in your area. In your flyers and ads, offer a reward, if possible.
Don’t give up! Some pets have been reunited with their families after a year or longer when their families continued efforts to find them.