Lost & Found

    Before leaving a Shelter

    Reclaiming Your Pet - Impound Fees

    Report a Lost or Found Pet

If you lost your pet!

First, make sure you drive around the neighborhood. If

you know of any other pet owners check with them, your pet may
go there to socialize. Second, contact your local animal shelter or better yet go there and look around. Any animals found that we pick up are taken to our animal shelter. Third, make sure you keep your animal license tag updated with home and alternate telephone numbers. If someone finds your pet and calls in the license number we can look it up and give them your information and help reunite you with your pet much faster.

Call the Animal Services Lost or Found Pets Hotline at (727) 582-2604, or visit the shelter at 12450 Ulmerton Road, Largo, to see if your pet is there. Also check other local shelters. If your pet has not been turned into Animal Services or any local shelter, visit the CARES (County Animal Rescue & Entry System) website to post your lost pet’s description and photo.

Reunited at Last!

We re-united a long lost loved one with their owner today.  On 7/23/08, Impound Card #217678 a Chow/Lab Mix was picked up and brought into our facility by one of our ACO’s.  On 7/29/08, during our Examination of the dog a microchip was found.  This chip went back to Athens Clark Animal Control in Georgia.    The owners had lost the dog when they were down here in May of 2007, at which time they had visited our shelter looking for the dog; at that time they had not found their dog.  We contacted the owners, and Mr. James Ziegler traveled all the way from Athens Georgia and picked up his dog today.  He was so surprised and grateful!    Another good story about microchipping!

Animal Services provides lost and found services to the public. If Lost and Found personnel are unavailable when you visit the shelter, the front desk personnel will be happy to assist you.

Even with the best preparation, there’s always that chance that your pet may get away.  Concerned residents, Animal Control officers and law enforcement personnel bring recovered pets to Pinellas County Animal Services daily.  We will check the pet for any identification and hold the pet according to county ordinance.

Your best bet is to visit Animal Services daily to check if someone brought your pet in.  Please bring your pet’s license number, a current photo and any other information that can help us locate your pet.

Report a lost or found pet:

Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office Lost or Found Pet Site

The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office provides a wonderful site for citizens to post a lost or found report on its website. This is a wonderful service and Pinellas County Animal Services wants the citizens in Pinellas County to know that they can turn to this site for assistance. Unfortunately, Animal Services does not have the dedicated staff or resources to maintain a module such as this in our website. Therefore, we are providing the link for our citizens.

• Report a lost or found pet to the Pinellas County Sheriff Office
  

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office "CARES" - is controlled and operated by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office located at 10750 Ulmerton Road., Largo, FL 33778. Those who choose to access this site do so on their own initiative and are responsible for complying with all local laws, rules and regulations.

Posting or listing a lost or found pet at PCSO CARES does not guarantee that you will find your lost pet or the original owners. PCSO CARES is a tool to help expand the scope of your search. We take no responsibility for errors created when posting a lost pet or found pet.

Before leaving the shelter:

• Bring three "Lost Pet" color flyers with your contact information and the description and color photo of your lost pet to the lost and found office in the lobby. These will be placed throughout the shelter. Do not depend on the flyers. It is your responsibility to visit the shelter and website daily. It’s also recommended that you search other lost and found websites, such as Craig's List, www.pets911.com , www.dogdetective.com, www.petfinder.com/classifiedhop.html , Pinellas County Sheriff Office and more.

There is nothing more heart wrenching that loosing your pet! If you are a responsible pet owner and have a required Pet License, or you have had your pet microchipped you should be able to be reunited with your pet within a 48hr period. All pets that come into the Pinellas County Animal Shelter are examined carefully for both a county license, and/or a microchip. If the pet has a county license we will have your personal information in our database and will contact you the very next working day to inform you that we have your pet. In addition, the same would hold true if your pet has a microchip. Please remember, if you are moving or have moved to a new location you as the owner of the pet should ensure that you keep this information current at all times so that we can reunite you with your lost pet.

If your pet has no form of identification on them, you should immediately begin a physical search at all the local shelters (See list of local shelters) for your lost pet. Animal Services may have on any given day approximately 800 pets in our care, and it is very difficult for us to positively search out your pet for you as many dogs and cats look alike. If you have a recent photograph of your pet you can e-mail us through our website and provide us with the address or area the pet was last seen and we will attempt to look in our shelter for you, however, this does not guarantee we will be able to positively identify your pet.

Impoundment fee:
There will be charges assessed for reclaiming your lost pet

• Sterilized pet = $50
• Intact pet = $80
• Board per day = $10

If your pet does not have a current county pet license or rabies vaccination, they will be required at the time of reclaiming your pet:

• License = $20
• Rabies vaccination = $10

When unaltered animals are impounded and reclaimed by the owner, an incentive will be offered at that time to have the animal spayed/neutered at a low cost and, in addition, the impound fees will be waived. The boarding fees will still be assessed per each day the animal was in the shelter.

• Spay – Dog = $45
• Spay – Cat =$35
• Neuter – Dog =$35
• Neuter – Cat =$25

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