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Lost & Found Pets

Call the Berkeley Animal Shelter to find out if your lost pet has been brought in to the shelter.

Lost pets

If you are looking for a lost pet:

  • Come to the shelter to see if your pet has been found.  If your animal is not at the shelter, we will fill out a "lost report" to be kept on file.
  • Continuing  coming  every 2 or 3 days to look for your pet
  • Check Petharbor
  • Place a "Lost" ad on Nextdoor, Craigslist or similar sites
  • Check other local animal shelters like Oakland Animal Services and Contra Costa County Animal Services
  • Make up flyers, preferably featuring a photo of the pet, with as accurate a description of the pet as possible
  • Notify neighbors of your lost pet
  • If the pet is a cat, be certain to look in crawl spaces of buildings, garages, storage sheds.  Cats often get locked into places where they've gone to explore or hide, so call for the cat during a time of day when a response from the cat will be heard.
  • Don't wait around for someone else to find your pet and report it to you.  You must look for yourself.
  • Unneutered cats and dogs can roam for miles, so the search will have to cover a broader area than for altered animals - another reason to have pets spayed/neutered.

If you file a lost pet report and later locate the animal, be sure to notify the shelter.

Found pets

If you have found a pet, please report it to Animal Services with as accurate description as possible.

 

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