LOST and FOUND PET resources

Consider posting on Craigslist, social media platforms or any of the sites listed below. Be sure to use a recent photograph so your pet is easily identifiable.

Facebook Groups

If you have lost an animal, try these tips

  • Search found animals brought to AVHS—animals are added in real time.

  • As soon as you can, come down when the shelter is open and tell us you lost an animal. Visit the shelter at least every other day! 

  • Bring a photo if you have one. Pictures can sometimes be deceiving, so looking around personally is best.

  • We will take you to every possible room with animals.

  • Call your veterinarian and/or the microchip company right away to make sure your pet’s microchip information is up-to-date with your current phone number.

  • Post signs in your neighborhood, at local veterinary clinics, pet supply stores, and place an ad in your local newspaper. Go door to door in your neighborhood and talk to service personnel—postal carrier, garbage collector, delivery drivers, etc.

Search Our Animals

Search found animals on our website for animals that have been lost and brought in through the Animal Control Officer or the public has dropped-off within the city limits of Auburn.  If lost animals are brought in from other areas, we refer them to the services of another organization that has jurisdiction for that area.

No one knows your animals as well as you, and you may describe your animal differently than animal care staff members. If your animal is not here on your first attempt, don’t give up! Someone may have your animal at their home while trying to find you, only to bring it here days, weeks, even months later.

Sadly, Animal Control may have found your animal dead on a roadway or in your neighborhood. Please check with the shelter for animals that have been picked up or turned in.

Search our Animals

LOST OR FOUND PET AGENCIES

to help you find your pet

To improve the probability that the animal is reunited, call or take the animal to the jurisdiction agency or animal welfare agency that is responsible for handling lost animals in the area where the pet was lost. Click here to see a list of other lost and found pet agencies.

If an animal is found or lost within the City limits of Auburn

  • Call Auburn Animal Control, Auburn, at (253) 288-2121 for animal pickup within the City Limits of Auburn or for after-hours service

  • Call Auburn Valley Humane Society, Auburn, at (253) 249-7849 option 1 to inquire if your lost animal is at the shelter or bring in a found animal during business hours 


OTHER RESOURCES

Websites to post Lost Animals
Sitio Web Para Publicar Animales Perdidos
Tips for finding lost pet owners
Consejos Para Encontrar Una Deueño De Mascotas Perdida