Lost Your Pet?

Five Steps to Finding Your Pet

1. Search Our Shelter Online: Browse the online listings of pets in our shelter to see if your pet is listed.
2. Call the Humane Society’s Found Pet Recording: 253-383-2733, extension #1. Only pets found the previous day are listed, and only for that one day.
   
3. Visit the Kennels & Cattery: Take your time walking through the kennels and cattery to be sure you’ve seen all the pets. Strays are held a minimum of two business days before being made available for adoption. We recommend you visit the shelter at least every other day.
   
4. Check at the front counter: Several 3-ring binders are located in the front office, listing found animals that are not on view. They may be held at someone’s home, at a veterinary clinic, deceased or in quarantine.
   
5. Don’t give up! Some pets have been reunited with their owners months after being lost.

Other tips for finding your lost pet: 

• Contact the people closest to where your pet was lost.
• Post signs in the area, with a description and a photo if possible.
• Take out a classified ad in the local newspaper. Many newspapers offer free “lost pet” ads.

Found a Stray?

Bring the animal to our shelter: Bringing a stray pet to the shelter during open hours is the best way to reunite it with its owner.

Contact animal control: If the pet is wearing a license, call your local animal control/pet licensing agency for the owner information. Animal control officers will bring strays without licenses to the Humane Society for sheltering.

• Tacoma
  (253) 627-7387
• Greater Pierce County
  (253) 798-7387
• Dupont, Lakewood, Steilacoom
  (253) 983-7800
• University Place
  (253) 798.3133
• Puyallup, Sumner, Bonney Lake, Edgewood
  (253) 841-5595

If you wish to try to locate the owner yourself, please:   

• Call the shelter during business hours at 253.383.2733 and leave a description of the pet for our “Found Pet Book.” Owners looking for a lost pet are instructed to look in this book for a description of their pet. Shelter staff will then call you if they believe the owner has been located.
  
• Have the pet scanned for a microchip at your local veterinary clinic, or bring it to the shelter to be scanned. Often pets without external ID have microchips enabling identification of their owners.
  
• If you have found a pet during the hours the shelter is closed, please confine it until you can bring it to the shelter.