when you find a pet:
It feels good to rescue a lost and scared pet but now you
must take some steps to unite this pet with its real owner, find it a
new home or keep it yourself.
Finding the owner of a lost pet.
Talk to anyone you see. Leave your name and phone number with people around the location where you found the pet.
Give them a description of the pet and leave your phone
number as well.
If the pet is wearing a tag, call the appropriate agencies.
For example, if the pet is wearing a tag with a shelter phone number, call that shelter.
Phone Mary Jane Stockdale at 614.471.7397
She runs a private volunteer pet lost/found service.
Phone the local/county humane society and the county animal control agency and give them a description of the pet.
(If the number is not listed on the left, check the yellow pages under "animal shelters.")
Search for and list your pet on PetFBI.
PetFBI is a lost/found pet listing agency for Ohio.
You can search to see if the pet you found is listed as lost and list the pet so that its owner can search for it.
Check the lost and found classified ads in all of your local newspapers for a lost ad about the pet.
Prepare a flyer giving only basic physical description of the pet (keep the details out of the flyers so that you can ask any potential owners to identify the pet by providing those details.)
Post MANY
flyers about the found pet within a 5-mile radius of where it was found.
Post the flyers at waist level on telephone poles and at
eye level in such places as veterinary offices, pet shops, barber &
beauty shops, grocery stores, community bulletin boards, churches, pizza
parlors, laundromats, convenience stores, near schools, and on school
bulletin boards.
As you distribute the posters, remember to look for flyers that the owner may have posted.
Place an Ad in the local newspaper.
Be sure to advertise in the Sunday edition as well as
during the week.
Also be sure to check the lost ads every day.
 if you can't find the pet's home...
Please consider keeping the pet. There are so many homeless pets in the world and not enough homes for them all. You can change the world for the pet in your care.
If you decide that you cannot keep this pet, please take the time to find a loving home for him/her.
Finding a Home for a Pet
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