Tips for Lost & Found Pets

Fill out a lost report with CHS online. This will also display your pet on our Lost & Found Pet Map (the photo will display after approval by a CHS staff member). We also want you to come into the Admissions & Assessment Center at 2320 Park Boulevard to see if your pet is here. You know your pet better than we do!

Contact Animal Control at 402-441-7900, a division of the City-County Health Department, to see if they have picked up your pet or have any reports.

Make posters including a picture and description. Post them in your neighborhood and make sure all your neighbors know your pet is missing.

Search for your lost dog or cat on Petco Love Lost. We have partnered with Petco Love Lost to easily help search the national lost and found database and create a searchable/shareable alert for your missing pet. Upload a  a picture of your pet or searching by location. Powered by facial recognition technology, Petco Love Lost helps match found animals to reported lost pets nationwide.

You know your pet better than anyone and the ultimate responsibility for finding it is yours.

Check and see if the animal has a collar and identification tags. Most owners put a telephone number to call if their pet is ever lost. Micro-chipping pets is becoming more and more common; these chips can be found with a special scanner that we have along with most veterinary clinics. You can always bring the animal in to be checked for a microchip. 

Search online lost pet pages, like our Lost & Found Pet Map, to see if the animal has been reported missing.

If you wish to keep the animal at your house until the owner is found, you can file a found animal report online at this link.

If you are unable to keep the pet you can bring the animal to the Capital Humane Society at 2320 Park Boulevard in Lincoln.

Call Animal Control and they will come and get the animal from your location. Animal Control can be reached at 402-441-7900. Since we are the only housing facility for Lincoln and Lancaster County, most owners will check our building first. We will hold the found animal through its stray holding period. If unclaimed, the animal’s temperament and health will be assessed for entry into our adoption program.

If you have filed a found report and you are successful in locating the pets owner, please give us a call so that we can close their report!