• Check your neighborhood
• Take the time to walk around as you call your pet
• Carry some food to lure your pet out from a hiding place. Also carry your pets leash - you don't want to be unprepared!
• Ask everyone if they have seen your pet. Carry a recent pet photo.Make sure that everyone knows your pet is missing. A small reward will motivate people to search.
• Drive around your neighborhood at night.

• We recommend you check for your pet by coming to the shelter. (Lost reports will not be taken over the phone.) Bring with you a detailed description of your pet and/or a picture that we can keep to watch out for one to come in.
• Our shelter tours are Monday - Friday 12PM until 5PM.
• Keep trying. Some people will hold a lost pet at the house for several weeks before turning it in to an animal shelter.
• DON'T GIVE UP!
• Some animals are found months after being lost!
• Contact other animal shelters and services in your area.

• Place posters in shopping centers, on telephone poles, in vet offices, in pet stores, in grooming parlors and with the animal shelters in your area. PLEASE NOTE: You city has regulations regarding the posting of signs on public property. Please contact your city's code enforcement department for information.
• Including your pet's photo will attract attention to your poster.
• Be sure to include your pet's name, a phone number (day and evening), a good description of your pet and an offer for a reward.
• For safety purposes, do not post your address.
• Print a lost pet poster. Click HERE to download a lost pet poster.

• Place ads in your local newspapers. The Derrick and News-Herald will place a Found Pet ad for free...this motivates people to place the ad and help you find your pet sooner!
• Read the "found" ads and respond to anything that might possibly resemble your pet.
• Remember, a white animal may easily turn into a gray or tan color after being outdoors for a few days.

• Check with your local radio station for lost and found services.
• Check with your local cable television stations.
• Check our web site frequently...new pictures of animals are posted regularly.

Have you found a lost dog? Click HERE to add dog to the list of lost dogs.
Have you found a lost cat? Click HERE to add a cat to the list of lost cats.