Missing pets.
Any species, no account, small contribution to post. Sightings reach you through us, so your phone number and address never go public.
The first twenty-four hours matter most
A frightened animal usually does not run far. Cats in particular tend to go to ground within a few houses of home and stay silent for a day or more, which is why calling and walking the same streets repeatedly beats widening the search too early. Dogs travel further and faster, and are more likely to be picked up by somebody who means well and has nowhere to report it.
Post here early rather than once everything else has failed. A listing that exists on day one is searchable when the person who spotted something goes looking on day three — and a listing costs nothing to leave up if your animal comes home first.
How a sighting reaches you here
Your phone number and address are never shown on this board, and they are never given to the person who reports the sighting. Somebody who thinks they have seen your animal tells us, and we relay it to you with whatever detail they gave — where, when, which direction it was heading.
That is deliberate. A lost-pet post is a public statement that a particular household is distracted, upset and expecting contact from strangers, and people have been targeted through exactly that. Relaying the sighting costs a few minutes and removes the one thing that makes a listing dangerous to publish.
Every species, not just dogs and cats
Horses, birds, rabbits, reptiles, small mammals — all of them belong on this board. People who lose a parrot or a tortoise often have nowhere sensible to post at all, and a distinctive animal is frequently the easiest kind to recognise from a description. The species filter above exists so that a board covering everything is still quick to scan.
If your pet was taken, or hurt
That is a different thing and it belongs on the cruelty record instead, where it is read by a person, checked, and kept permanently rather than closed when the animal is found. If you believe your animal was stolen, poisoned or deliberately harmed, file a report — and if it is happening now, contact local law enforcement or animal control first.
You can do both. A missing-pet listing helps somebody recognise the animal today; a report is what is still there in three years when the same person turns up somewhere else.
A missing pet is not a report of abuse.
A missing-pet listing is separate from the registry and carries its own small contribution. If you believe your pet was taken or harmed, file a report as well — that is the record a shelter can check later.