Lost & Found Cats
Whether you are missing a cat or want to check to see if a cat has been reported missing before trapping it, the sites below are some of the many resources available. Key lost & found pages include CraigsList, Nextdoor, PawBoost, Facebook Lost & Found pages, and your local animal shelters.
National Lost & Found sites: Pet Harbor, PetFinder, The Center for Lost Pets, America’s National Lost & Found Database, PawBoost, TabbyTracker, Petkey
Petco Love Lost - Helps reunite missing pets with their people by using a photo of the pet.
MARN Directory of Pet Detectives listed by state to help find your lost pet
What You Don't Know About Lost Pets Can Hurt Them, tips from Maddie’s Fund
Below are a few specific resources for those in the Central Texas area.
Austin CraigsList - Be sure to check both lost & found and pets under “Community”
Austin Animal Center - Lost/found pets
Cedar Park Lost and Found Pets
Central Texas Lost & Found Pets
City of Leander - Lost/found pets
Cleveland and North Cleveland TX Lost & Found Pets
Lost and Found Cats - Austin, TX & surrounding areas
Lost and Found Pets of Hays County, TX
Lost and Found Pets of San Marcos, TX
Reddit - Austin
Round Rock Lost and Found Pets
Wells Branch Lost and Found Pets
Williamson County Animal Shelter - Lost/stray pets at shelter
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AND in the Houston area: Houston Save-a-Pet and Pet Support - This Facebook page is for rehoming animals, soliciting for fosters/rescues, posting adoptable animals, asking questions…etc.
If searching for a lost cat, we highly recommend you check out the Lost Cat Finder (aka The Lost Cat Pet Detective or Kim Freeman)
Click here to find other Lost Pet Detectives (for cats and dogs) by state.
We know that a tipped ear means that the cat was previously TNR’d. However, it does not always mean that it is a free-roaming, outdoors only community cat. Many of us live with cats and kittens with tipped ears. When these cats somehow get out, we pray that the person who finds him/her will take a bit of time to check the lost cat listings for the area and check for a microchip. And we hope that the person realizes that this cat who may not have lived outside for a very long time might be very afraid and appear feral.
Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter offers these tips for finding a lost pet:
Make an Effective Flyer for your area and local vets – Use the 5+5+55 Rule
At any typical intersection, you only have five seconds and five words to get your message across to drivers who are passing through the area where your pet is missing. So:
Make them GIANT so that people driving by cannot miss them.
Make them FLUORESCENT so that the color attracts the attention of everyone.
Put them in your yard, major intersections near where you lost your pet, and in areas of sightings.
Keep them BRIEF and to the point.
Let them convey a VISUAL IMAGE of what you have lost.
Click here for more tips and links to local animal shelters.
The Missing Animal Response Network offers online training that includes:
Lost Dog Behavior
Lost Cat Behavior
How to Make Large Neon Posters
Why We Say Don’t Call Your Dog!
How to Tag Your Car Like a Mobile Billboard and so much more!!!