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New York City Animal Care and Control
Featured Success Story
Tiny finds home after four years

Jonathan Lora had just turned six when his father brought Tiny home from the pet store. Jonathan had always wanted a puppy, especially a rottweiler, and Tiny became an instant playmate for him and his friends. For ten months, as Tiny grew to be not-so-tiny, he played with Jonathan and the neighborhood kids. Playing fetch was his favorite.

 

Then, one summer night, someone broke the lock in the backyard gate, and Tiny was gone. Four years later, thanks to the AC&C and a microchip implanted when Tiny was a puppy, the now 80-pound dog has come home again.

 

Lost and Found

AC&C's online lost-and-found search is hosted by Petharbor.com where it is updated 5 times a day.

Click Here For Instructions On How To Fill Out A Lost And Found Report


If you wish to register a lost pet then please click here. If you register a lost pet your personal information will not be displayed to the public.

Click here to look for your lost pet .


If you wish to register a found pet then please click here. If you register a found pet, your personal information will not be displayed to the public.

Click here to look for a pet that you found .

 

What to do if I lost my pet

The first thing to do is call the shelter in the borough where you live or where your pet was lost. An AC&C staff person will access our Chameleon computer database to determine if any animal fitting the description of your pet has entered the shelter. If your animal does not turn up immediately, file a 'lost animal' report.

The next thing to do is visit the shelter to check for your animal. This is imperative because an animal's description is subjective, and one person's description of an animal may not necessarily match yours. We recommend that you check with the shelter in person every 48 hours or preferably more often. Meanwhile, the shelter staff will check the network and the 'found animal' reports as they come in.

Even though you are visiting the shelter, you should also:

Post flyers (see below) within a 1-mile radius of where your pet was last seen and around your neighborhood and in as many of the following locations as possible:

- Pet shops
- Veterinarian offices
- Shelters and Humane Societies
- Supermarkets
- Police precincts
- Newspapers
- Bulletin boards
- Distribute flyers to delivery people in your area.

If someone responds to your flyer, having possibly found your animal, check it out even if it seems too far away to possibly be your animal. Animals have been found miles from where they were originally lost.

Contact as many vets and shelters as possible.

Most important, even before your pet is lost, consider the benefit of your pet being microchipped, and have one implanted immediately.

Even with a microchip, every companion animal should wear a collar with ID tags at all times.

Please remember to remove all flyers once your pet has been found.

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