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LOST AND FOUND
If you have LOST a pet . . .
More than 60,000 pets
are lost or stolen each year. Even the most responsible pet owner can
experience circumstances, which allow a pet to stray or become lost.
If your pet becomes lost, please utilize the following guidelines to
assist you in locating your lost pet:
- Search the immediate area around
your residence and your neighborhood. Did you know that statistics
show a majority of lost pets are not recovered by veterinarians,
animal shelters, or humane societies, but by your neighbors. Most
pets have no form of identification, thus owners cannot be
located.
- Talk to your neighbors and ask
them to be on the lookout for your pet. Provide them a flyer with
a description or picture of your pet and a telephone number where
you may be contacted.
- Each day, contact the Animal
Services Center automated telephone system at 817-459-5898 and
select the option which allows you to listen to a posting of
animals impounded the previous business day. Stray animals are
held for 72 hours, and animals with traceable identification are
held for 7 business days, prior to becoming available for adoption
or euthanized.
- Please visit the Center each day
to determine if your pet has been impounded. Each year
approximately 11,000 animals are placed in our care. Due to the
high volume of animals we receive, and the possibility of your
animal being categorized as a different breed, we will not attempt
to identify your pet over the phone.
- Distribute and post flyers
throughout your neighborhood, veterinarian offices, pet stores,
mail carrier and other individuals who spend considerable amounts
of time in your neighborhood. Please be aware that the posting of
flyers, signs, or posters in a public right-of-way, median, or on
a telephone pole, is a violation of city ordinance. Please contact
817-459-6777 for further information regarding the posting of
flyers, posters and signs.
- Run ads in your local papers under
the lost and found section. Also, check ads daily for found pets.
- File a lost animal report.
Arlington Animal Services utilizes www.lostandfound.com
to allow residents to report and search for lost pets online.
Please click on the applicable link below:
- Protect your pet from getting lost
again. Take the necessary precautions to prevent escape in the
future-fence repairs, etc. Always keep a collar and an
identification tag on your pet, such as a City license and rabies
vaccination tag. A tag is a lost pet’s ticket home. Consult with
your veterinarian regarding permanent methods of pet
identification, such as a microchip. Other important steps include
keeping your pets supervised at all times and having them spayed
or neutered. Finally, keep a photo of your pet on file in the
event he or she strays again.
- Occasionally, citizens will take
found pets to the Humane Society of North Texas. They are located
at 1840 E. Lancaster in Fort Worth. Their phone number is
817-332-4768.
Good luck in
locating your pet. Please don’t hesitate to ask any of our staff
members for assistance. If you do not have access to the internet,
allows us to report a lost or found animal on the internet for you.
Also, don’t give up looking after a few days. We have helped
residents locate their pets weeks after they have disappeared.
If you have FOUND a pet . . .
If you have found a
stray animal, you have several options to choose from. You must
decide to hold the animal until you can locate the owner or you may
decide to request that the animal be held at the Arlington Animal
Services Center.
If you would like
to hold the animal while attempting to locate the owners, please
utilize the following guidelines in attempting to locate the owners:
- File a found animal
report. Arlington Animal Services utilizes www.lostandfound.com
to allow residents to report and search for found pets online.
- Notify local veterinarians
- Check with your neighbors and post
signs and/or hand out flyers in the area where the animal was
found. Please be aware that the posting of flyers, signs, or
posters in a public right-of-way, median , or telephone pole, is a
violation of city ordinance. Please contact 817-459-6777 for
further information regarding the posting of flyers, posters ands
signs.
- Attempt to trace any
identification the animal may be wearing. Take the animal to a
veterinarian or to the Animal Services Center to have it scanned
for a microchip.
- Run ads in your local papers under
the lost and found section. Also, check ads daily for lost pets.
Please remember if
the animals owner is found, please contact any agencies,
organizations, or www.lostandfound.com
where you have filed "found" reports so the reports can be
cancelled and removed.
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