Lost & Found Pets

LOST PET TIPS

• Act immediately! The longer you wait the further your pet can go.
• Fill out a detailed report with the Yakima Humane Society. These reports are good for 30 days and must be renewed by the owner. It's the owners responsibility to check the shelter every two days for their pets.
• Place ads on local social media sites such as Facebook and PawBoost and watch for any found ads that might match the description of your pet.
• Post signs at intersections within a 2 mile radius of where your pet was lost. In addition, post signs at grocery stores, community centers, pet stores, veterinary offices, churches and apartment complex laundromats.
• Search the neighborhood, often. Early morning hours and sunset are prime time to search. After dark tends to be a good time to look for cats. Your pet may be injured, frightened or trapped and unable to come to you. Hearing your voice may encourage your pet to answer you. After you call his name 2 or 3 times, remain in one place long enough for your pet to find you.
• Ask neighbors, letter carriers and delivery people if they have seen your pet. Print and handout lost pet sheets with your pet's photo and your phone number.
• If you have recently moved, conduct a search in your old neighborhood.
• Place an item that will smell familiar to your pet in a cardboard box and place it out in your yard.
• Thoroughly search your house and any place the pet could hide. If your animal usually comes to certain sound, a can opener or a treat bag opening, try making those sounds outside.

FOUND PET TIPS

• Bring the animal into the Yakima Humane Society or a local veterinary clinic and have it scanned for a microchip.
• Bring the animal into the Yakima Humane Society and we will gladly photograph the animal to include in the found report.
• Post an ad on Craigslist, or classified section of the Yakima Herald (509) 452-7355.
• Go online to local Facebook groups focused on lost and found pets

Please let us know if you find your pet or if you locate the owner of a found pet. This allows us to maintain updated information in our lost/found database. Thank you.