City
of Hamilton community pet recovery system
Lost
or found a pet?
The City of Hamilton Animal Services Staff care about the pets in our community
and we are proud to announce our new partnership with
www.helpinglostpets.com.
We are introducing this new technology in efforts to increase the pet recovery rate in our community.
All pets that are found as strays by Animal Services will be posted on this system
as Found animals within a few hours of the animal entering our database.
All residents and businesses in the community can use this system to post FREE lost or found reports.
You can pre-register with the site and set up and add your pet information with a picture,
any medical information and care instructions just in case your pet goes missing.
Users can subscribe to receive automatic notifications of pets lost or found in their area.
While searching for their lost pet in the community they may be able to help another owner find their pet.
This website is user friendly and has many capabilities, such as FREE lost & found posters,
map-based searches, pre-registration for pets and owners,
and connections to animal related organizations and businesses - just to name a few.
What does Helping Lost Pets allow me to do?
Post FREE Lost & Found reports
Automatically search stray animals in our shelter and in the community
Print FREE Lost & Found posters
Automatically receive e-mails of potential pet matches
Register yourself and your pets for FREE on Helping Lost Pets to be ready just in case your pet goes missing
Upload a picture of your pet
Easily update your profile and provide care instructions for your pet
Connects members in a community to help search for missing pets
Suggestions from AWA to help you search for a missing pet:
Make
a poster and get at least 100 photocopies.
Tip:
make some full page posters and also make
some
small flyers to put in mailboxes.
Include
description of pet, photo if possible, sex,
date
lost, area lost, and your phone number.
Put
them in every mailbox on your street and for
several
blocks around. Talk to as many people in your
area
as possible and ask them to check their property,
under
porches and decks and in garden sheds.
Put
posters in local stores, vet clinics, etc.
Put
an ad in the Spectator Classifieds Lost and Found
905-527-5555
Give
a basic description of your pet (sex, colour)
area where
and when it was lost and your phone number.
The Kijiji website also has a lost and found category where you can post
a photo and information about lost (or found) pets for free.