I Lost My Pet
Humane Indiana is here to help. If you’ve lost or found a pet and are unsure what to do, we offer tips and resources to help you find your pet or help a lost pet find its family.
MY PET IS LOST
If you have lost your pet, please file a report with us, and we will contact you if a Good Samaritan brings your pet to our shelter. Also, please post your lost pet on local Lost/Found Facebook groups and on Petco Love Lost (see below).
Stay Positive!
Follow the tips below. And stay positive!
I FOUND A LOST PET
A lost pet is stressful for both the pet and its owners. Below are a few tips to help you reunite a pet with its family.
- Make every effort to have the pet scanned for a microchip. If a pet is microchipped, it contains the pet owner’s contact information and will more easily be reunited with them. Animal controls, veterinarians, and shelters assist with scanning strays at no cost.
- Call local shelters and animal controls because pet owners will often file missing reports with them. List of local Animal Controls.
- Post on Lost/Found Facebook group pages and on Petco Love Lost (see below).
FACEBOOK LOST/FOUND GROUPS
We also recommend posting on local Facebook groups for lost & found pets (see below). The grassroots efforts of these groups are sometimes the most effective way to reunite pets with their owners. Local Facebook groups include:
- 219 Lost and Found Pets (Northwest Indiana)
- Lost/Found Dogs Indiana
- Lost and Found Pets of Northwest Indiana
- Lost & Found Dogs – Northwest Indiana
- Lost/Found/Stolen Animals in Northern Indiana
PETCO LOVE LOST
Petco Love Lost can help reunite you and your pet with just one photo, and it’s free and easy to use. This new, national platform uses innovative pet facial recognition technology to empower animal-loving communities to bring lost pets home.
Snap. Share. Reunite. Turn “lost” into “reunited” the easy way here.
AAHA UNIVERSAL PET MICROCHIP
The AAHA Universal Pet Microchip Lookup site searches many of the leading pet microchip registries to aid in pet recovery. It will show the user which registries have microchip registrations for a particular microchip ID. Additionally, the Pet Microchip Lookup tool will attempt to determine the microchip distributor or microchip manufacturer if no microchip registration can be found. PET MICROCHIP LOOK UP
QUESTIONS?
Please contact our Intake Coordinator at (219) 922-3811 ext. 211 or email intake@humaneindiana.org.