{"id":8511,"date":"2026-10-07T16:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T20:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T18:00:41","slug":"lost-found-pet-report-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/lost-found-pet-report-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"PawBoost 2026 Annual Report: Lost &amp; Found Pet Data"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ede3cdaa60eb0ae3354b70e86716ebb8\" style=\"color:#2f7d32\"><strong>PawBoost 2026 Annual Report<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report is published by PawBoost, based on data from the lost and found pet reports processed on its platform between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026. PawBoost is a pet reunification platform used by millions of pet owners, finders, and shelters across the U.S. and internationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Each year, PawBoost intakes hundreds of thousands of lost and found pet reports directly from pet owners and finders, making it the largest public database of lost and found pets in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Definitions for the terms and metrics used throughout this report, including how we count a &#8220;report,&#8221; a &#8220;reunion,&#8221; and the difference between &#8220;lost&#8221; and &#8220;found&#8221; reports, are provided in the Methodology &amp; Definitions section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Key Takeaways<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>PawBoost processed <strong>644,798<\/strong> lost and found pet reports between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026. <strong>264,508<\/strong> resulted in a confirmed reunion, an overall reunited rate of <strong>41.2%<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Lost pets reunite at a much higher rate than found pets<\/strong> (49.0% vs. 27.1%), and the gap holds across species.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fireworks produce the biggest spikes in lost dog reports.<\/strong> Dog reports jumped 230% the day after July 4th in the U.S., while cat reports were essentially flat.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Cats show a much bigger summer-vs-winter seasonal swing than dogs<\/strong> (+19.6% vs. +1.3%), and that swing is sharpest in cold weather regions like the Northeast.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nearly half of all reunions happen within 24 hours of being reported<\/strong>, and more than three-quarters happen within the first week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Nearly 3 in 10 users said PawBoost played a role in reuniting the pet. <\/strong>During the year, PawBoost also generated nearly 1.3 billion Facebook impressions, sent more than 304 million email alerts, and recorded 36.7 million Lost &amp; Found database impressions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-abb21a43db862a293392ddb3506d1b53\" style=\"color:#2f7d32\"><strong>The Year at a Glance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#2f7d32;color:#2f7d32\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PawBoost took in <strong>644,798<\/strong> lost &amp; found pet reports from the public during the reporting period, August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>264,508<\/strong> pets were reunited with their families, an overall reunited rate* across all species of <strong>41.2%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table is-style-regular has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Category<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Total<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost Pets<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">413,592<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Found Pets<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">231,206<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A breakdown of reunited rates by status and species can be found in &#8220;How Pets Get Home&#8221; below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*<strong>Reunited rate.<\/strong> Share of lost and found pet reports, across all species, that resulted in a confirmed reunion. Of the 644,798 total reports, 2,810 are excluded from this calculation because the outcome is unknown or not a live reunion \u2013 pets found deceased, and reports from removed or deleted accounts with no confirmed reunion \u2013 leaving a base of 641,988. Reports marked rehomed, surrendered, or deceased are always counted as not reunited. Reports were filed between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026; reunions recorded through October 1, 2026 are included.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-84d7892f78429feb92db3ab20b1e8642\" style=\"color:#2f7d32\"><strong>The State of Lost &amp; Found Pets<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background is-style-default\" style=\"background-color:#2f7d32;color:#2f7d32\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026, lost and found pet reports followed clear, consistent patterns tied to holidays, the season, and the day of the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>What&#8217;s being reported<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dogs and cats make up <strong>97.9%<\/strong> of all lost and found pet reports: dogs <strong>56.8%<\/strong>, cats <strong>41.2%<\/strong>. The rest includes birds (<strong>1.3%<\/strong>), reptiles, rabbits, and \u201cother\u201d (<strong>0.2%<\/strong> each), as well as a small number of ferrets and horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Holiday spikes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holiday figures in this section cover U.S. reports only, using each report&#8217;s local date. The biggest spike in lost pet reports during the reporting period occurred around July 4th. Reports peaked on July 5th, up <strong>138%<\/strong> over baseline*, as pets that went missing over the holiday were reported the next day. July 4th itself saw a smaller, still meaningful increase of <strong>62%<\/strong>. The same pattern appears around New Year&#8217;s: reports rose <strong>88%<\/strong> on January 1st.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Labor Day (+12%) and Memorial Day (+9%) saw more modest increases, spread fairly evenly across species. Halloween (-13%) and Thanksgiving (-11%) actually saw fewer reports than a typical day. Christmas saw a small increase overall (+9%), with dog reports up 22% and cat reports down 12%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The impact of fireworks: dogs vs. cats<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Holidays with fireworks produced the sharpest difference between dogs and cats in the entire dataset. On July 5th, dog reports were up <strong>230%<\/strong> over baseline while cat reports were essentially flat (<strong>+6%<\/strong>). The same pattern held around New Year&#8217;s Day (dogs <strong>+139%<\/strong>, cats <strong>+3%<\/strong>). Noise sensitivity to fireworks and other loud sounds is well documented in dogs, and the data reflects it: Cats don\u2019t show the same large increase as dogs on these dates.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"\n  background-color: #f1f8f2;\n  border-left: 4px solid #5b9e68;\n  padding: 10px 14px;\n  margin: 15px 0;\n  font-size: 15px;\n  line-height: 1.5;\n\"><br \/>\n  <strong>If you have a dog:<\/strong> July 4th and New Year&#8217;s are the two highest-risk days of the year for a dog to go missing, driven by noise sensitivity to fireworks. Keep dogs in a secure, quiet indoor space during fireworks and celebrations, and make sure their ID tag and microchip registration are current beforehand. More tips on July 4th preparedness can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/be-prepared-this-fourth-of-july\/\">here<\/a>.\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Summer vs. winter<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Report volume is generally higher in the summer than the winter, but the size of that swing varies by region. Across all countries, reports averaged <strong>1,865<\/strong> per day across the summer months (August, June, July) compared to <strong>1,702<\/strong> per day across the winter months (December\u2013February), a <strong>9.6%<\/strong> increase. The differences are more telling when broken out by U.S. Census region (U.S. reports only):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Region<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Summer avg\/day<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Winter avg\/day<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Difference<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Northeast<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">120.5<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">72.2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">+66.8%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Midwest<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">225.0<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">161.3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">+39.5%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">West<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">616.6<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">568.5<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">+8.5%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">South<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">757.3<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">813.2<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">-6.9%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Northeast saw reports increase <strong>67%<\/strong> in the summer relative to winter, while the South actually saw a small decrease (<strong>-7%<\/strong>). The summer increase that shows up overall is therefore largely a colder-climate phenomenon. The dog, cat, and bird figures that follow also cover all countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"594\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart2_seasonal_swing-1024x594.png\" alt=\"Bar chart of average lost and found pet reports per day in summer (June\u2013August) vs. winter (December\u2013February) by U.S. Census region: Northeast 121 vs. 72, Midwest 225 vs. 161, West 617 vs. 569, South 757 vs. 813. The South is the only region with more reports in winter.\" class=\"wp-image-8517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart2_seasonal_swing-1024x594.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart2_seasonal_swing-300x174.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart2_seasonal_swing-768x446.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart2_seasonal_swing-129x75.png 129w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart2_seasonal_swing.png 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Dog vs. cat differences<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outside of fireworks-driven spikes, the seasonal increase is driven almost entirely by cats. Cat reports averaged <strong>774<\/strong> per day in the summer versus <strong>647<\/strong> per day in the winter, a <strong>19.6%<\/strong> increase. Dog reports stayed relatively flat across seasons: <strong>1,044<\/strong> per day in the summer versus <strong>1,030<\/strong> per day in the winter, a difference of just <strong>1.3%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Birds<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Birds show a sharper seasonal swing than cats or dogs. Bird reports averaged <strong>30.7<\/strong> per day in the summer versus <strong>14.3<\/strong> per day in the winter. This represents a <strong>114.7%<\/strong> increase, more than double the winter rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Day-of-week trends<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports also followed a weekly pattern. Monday was the highest-volume day, averaging <strong>1,864<\/strong> reports, and Friday the lowest, averaging <strong>1,686<\/strong> \u2013 a difference of <strong>10.6%<\/strong>. Sunday was nearly as high as Monday, averaging <strong>1,861<\/strong> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*<strong>Baseline.<\/strong> Unless noted otherwise, &#8220;baseline&#8221; is the average number of daily reports across the three weeks before and three weeks after a given date, excluding that date itself.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9b1e62ddcd4cfcfa7ee6d9ba2a90ded3\" style=\"color:#2f7d32\"><strong>How Pets Get Home<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#2f7d32;color:#2f7d32\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>264,508<\/strong> pets were reunited, an overall reunited rate* across all species of <strong>41.2%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reunited rate breakdown<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Category<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Reunited Rate<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost (all species)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">49.0%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Found (all species)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">27.1%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost Dogs<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">52.5%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Found Dogs<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">31.6%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost Cats<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">46.3%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Found Cats<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">16.3%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lost pets are reunited at a significantly higher rate than found pets, and the gap holds for both dogs and cats individually. Dogs reunite at a higher rate than cats overall (<strong>43.2%<\/strong> vs. <strong>39.1%<\/strong>). Reunited rates are substantially lower for birds at <strong>19.8%<\/strong>, less than half the rate for dogs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Part of the gap between Found Dogs (<strong>31.6%<\/strong>) and Found Cats (<strong>16.3%<\/strong>) is explained by the type of report submitted. Found reports can indicate that the finder has physically secured the pet or has only spotted it without catching it (a &#8220;sighting&#8221;)<sup>\u2020<\/sup>. For dogs, a sighting report reunites at roughly 40% the rate of a secured report (<strong>14.1%<\/strong> vs. <strong>34.7%<\/strong>). For cats, the gap between the two is narrower: A sighting reunites at <strong>12.9%<\/strong> versus <strong>19.8%<\/strong> secured, about 65% as often. Cats are reported as sightings far more often than dogs (<strong>29.4%<\/strong> of found cat reports vs. <strong>12.3%<\/strong> of found dog reports), which pulls the overall reunited rate for found cats down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the higher share of sighting reports among cats explains only part of the species gap. If found cat reports had the same secured\/sighting mix as dogs, their reunited rate would rise from <strong>16.3%<\/strong> to roughly <strong>19.0%<\/strong>, still well below the <strong>31.6% <\/strong>rate for found dogs. The main reason for the species gap is the difference in reunited rates among found pets that have been secured (secured cats vs. secured dogs: <strong>19.8%<\/strong> vs. <strong>34.7%<\/strong>). Interestingly, that species gap nearly disappears for sighting-only reports (<strong>12.9%<\/strong> vs. <strong>14.1%<\/strong>): Sighted dogs and cats are reunited at close to the same rate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2020&#8221;In my possession&#8221; and &#8220;Sighting (still roaming)&#8221; are sub-classifications of Found reports, captured separately from initial and final status. An &#8220;In my possession&#8221; report means the finder has the pet secured in their possession; a &#8220;Sighting (still roaming)&#8221; report means the finder has spotted but not caught the pet. A small remaining share of Found reports either carry no such sub-classification or are classified as \u201cFound deceased\u201d; the latter are excluded from reunited-rate calculations.<\/em><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reunited rate by geography<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reunited rates vary substantially by state. There is a roughly 21-point difference between the highest and lowest states with meaningful sample size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Top 10 States<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Rate<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Bottom 10 States<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Rate<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Colorado<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">52.5%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Indiana<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">39.0%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Wisconsin<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">51.0%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Kentucky<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">39.0%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Virginia<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">49.9%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">California<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">38.8%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">North Dakota<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">48.8%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Oklahoma<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">38.8%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Idaho<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">48.7%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Texas<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">37.5%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">New Jersey<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">48.0%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Georgia<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">36.9%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Delaware<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">47.8%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Louisiana<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">36.1%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Utah<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">47.8%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Arkansas<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">36.0%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Iowa<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">47.7%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Alabama<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">34.8%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">New Hampshire<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">47.5%<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Mississippi<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">31.8%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"796\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart3b_map-1024x796.png\" alt=\"Map of U.S. states shaded by reunited rate, from Mississippi lowest at 31.8% to Colorado highest at 52.5%, with a U.S. average of 41.1%. States with fewer than 500 reports are gray.\" class=\"wp-image-8522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart3b_map-1024x796.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart3b_map-300x233.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart3b_map-768x597.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart3b_map-96x75.png 96w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart3b_map.png 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reunited rates differ not just by state but by region. The Northeast has the highest reunited rate at <strong>46.3%<\/strong>, followed by the Midwest at<strong> 44.1%<\/strong>, while the South has the lowest rate at <strong>39.3%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>International<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reunited rates also vary substantially by country:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Country<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Reunited Rate<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">United Kingdom<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">49.1%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Australia<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">46.8%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Canada<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">46.1%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">United States<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">41.1%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">South Africa<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">39.6%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Brazil<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">20.0%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Mexico<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">16.9%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At <strong>49.1%<\/strong>, the UK has the highest reunited rate among the countries compared (19.5% higher than the U.S. rate). Australia and Canada also reunite pets at a notably higher rate than the U.S. South Africa lands just below the U.S., while Brazil and Mexico sit well below all of them. PawBoost&#8217;s site and alerts are currently English-first, which could play a role in the lower rates in non-English-speaking countries, though this data can&#8217;t tell us why those differences exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Time-to-reunited<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among pets that were reunited, the typical case moved fast: the median time to reunion was <strong>1.48 days<\/strong>. The average was much higher at <strong>6.43 days<\/strong>, pulled up by a relatively small number of long-running cases. Dogs reunite roughly twice as fast as cats: a median of <strong>0.99 days<\/strong> versus <strong>2.04 days<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Category<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Median<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Average<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost (all species)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1.78 days<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">6.93 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Found (all species)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">0.91 days<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">4.79 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost Dogs<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1.16 days<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">5.58 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Found Dogs<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">0.73 days<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">3.94 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost Cats<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">2.03 days<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">8.44 days<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Found Cats<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">2.10 days<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">8.99 days<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Found dogs reunite faster than lost dogs, but the same pattern doesn&#8217;t hold for cats. Found dogs reunite <strong>37% faster<\/strong> than lost dogs (0.73 vs. 1.16 days median). Found cats show very little difference from lost cats (2.10 vs. 2.03 days median).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Likelihood of reunion by time missing<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Time Since Report<\/strong><\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\"><strong>Share of All Reunions<\/strong><\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Within 24 hours<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">43.9%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Within 3 days<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">68.9%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Within 1 week<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">77.3%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Within 2 weeks<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">87.1%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Within 1 month<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">96.0%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Within 3 months<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">99.2%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Within 6 months<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">99.8%<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"556\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart1_within24hrs-1024x556.png\" alt=\"Line chart of the cumulative share of confirmed reunions by time since the report was filed: 43.9% within 24 hours, more than three-quarters within a week, and 99.8% by six months.\" class=\"wp-image-8524\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart1_within24hrs-1024x556.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart1_within24hrs-300x163.png 300w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart1_within24hrs-768x417.png 768w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart1_within24hrs-138x75.png 138w, https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/chart1_within24hrs.png 1520w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The first 24 hours matter most: Nearly half of confirmed reunions happen within 24 hours of the report being filed, and more than three-quarters happen within the first week. Reunions do still happen well past that point, though: <strong>0.8%<\/strong> of all confirmed reunions occurred more than three months after the pet was first reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>*<strong>Reunited rate. <\/strong>Share of lost and found pet reports, across all species, that resulted in a confirmed reunion. Of the 644,798 total reports, 2,810 are excluded from this calculation because the outcome is unknown or not a live reunion \u2013 pets found deceased, and reports from removed or deleted accounts with no confirmed reunion \u2013 leaving a base of 641,988. Reports marked rehomed, surrendered, or deceased are always counted as not reunited. Reports were filed between August 1, 2025 and July 31, 2026; reunions recorded through October 1, 2026 are included.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-33300add126d5464c5b44ca19084a5d2\" style=\"color:#2f7d32\"><strong>PawBoost&#8217;s Role in the Ecosystem<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#2f7d32;color:#2f7d32\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PawBoost&#8217;s role in a reunion is to get a lost or found pet in front of the people most likely to help: neighbors, shelters, pet owners, and finders. Not every reunion is facilitated by PawBoost. The numbers below reflect the reach and activity generated directly through PawBoost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reach<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the reporting period (August 1, 2025 \u2013 July 31, 2026), PawBoost generated the following reach across its channels. This does not capture every channel PawBoost operates in. The platform also reaches a significant audience through its <a href=\"https:\/\/krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/nextdoor-app-teams-up-with-pawboost-to-implement-animal-amber-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">partnership with Nextdoor<\/a><sup>\u2021<\/sup>, but reliable figures for that channel weren&#8217;t available for this reporting period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table has-small-font-size\"><table class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color has-fixed-layout\"><thead><tr><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Metric<\/th><th class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Total<\/th><\/tr><\/thead><tbody><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Email Alerts Sent<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">304,820,875<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Facebook Impressions<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">1,292,938,277<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Facebook Comments<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">3,068,110<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Lost &amp; Found Database (LFDB) Impressions<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">36,657,077<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Direct Messages Sent (to pet owners\/finders)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">258,214<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Direct Messages Sent (to shelters)<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">7,823<\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">Mobile App Installs<\/td><td class=\"has-text-align-left\" data-align=\"left\">110,282<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Email Alerts Sent counts every alert email sent to a user about a lost, found, or reunited pet near them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Facebook Impressions and Comments reflect activity across PawBoost&#8217;s network of local Facebook Pages, where lost and found pet alerts are shared directly into local communities.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>LFDB Impressions counts page views of the lost &amp; found pet feed (one per page view, not per pet shown) plus individual pet listing page views on pawboost.com.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Direct Messages counts messages sent through PawBoost connecting pet owners\/finders to each other, and connecting them to partner shelters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Mobile App Installs counts new installs of PawBoost&#8217;s app during the reporting period (74,144 iOS \/ 36,138 Android); it does not capture in-app engagement or usage beyond the initial install.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><sup>\u2021<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/nextdoor-app-teams-up-with-pawboost-to-implement-animal-amber-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>KRCR News, May 2022<\/em><\/a><em> (<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260407045402\/https:\/\/krcrtv.com\/news\/local\/nextdoor-app-teams-up-with-pawboost-to-implement-animal-amber-alerts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>archived<\/em><\/a><em>)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These numbers span different kinds of reach. For example, a Facebook impression is not the same unit as a database page view or an email notification, so we report them separately rather than combining them into a single &#8220;total reach&#8221; figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Global Reach<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While PawBoost&#8217;s core user base resides in the United States, it is used internationally as well. Of the <strong>644,798<\/strong> lost &amp; found pet reports filed during the reporting period, <strong>93.6%<\/strong> originated in the United States and <strong>6.4%<\/strong> came from outside it, most commonly Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and Brazil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Shelter Partnerships<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">PawBoost added <strong>60 new <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pawboost.com\/blog\/pawboost-for-shelters\/\"><strong>shelter partners<\/strong><\/a> during the reporting period. Each partner&#8217;s stray intakes get added to PawBoost&#8217;s lost &amp; found database, and a daily post featuring a sample of recent stray intakes gets shared to the local Facebook Page for their area. The partnership puts shelter animals in front of PawBoost&#8217;s existing audience rather than requiring the shelter to build one of its own. The largest shelter added by annual intake volume was San Antonio Animal Care Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reunions Attributed to PawBoost<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When users report that a pet has been reunited, PawBoost asks pet owners and finders a simple follow-up question: Did PawBoost directly help reunite the pet? Among users who answered, <strong>29.4%<\/strong> said yes.<sup>\u2020<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Given how many ways a lost pet can make it home \u2013 finding its own way back, a tag or microchip scan, or word of mouth from a neighbor \u2013 nearly 3 in 10 respondents directly attributing their reunion to PawBoost suggests the platform plays a meaningful role in many reunions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u2020Of pet owners and finders surveyed after a confirmed reunion, 63.3% answered the question (42,671 &#8220;Yes,&#8221; 102,661 &#8220;No&#8221;); users who did not answer are excluded from this rate.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-46fdebc447ad618bdeff4ab0643a10af\" style=\"color:#2f7d32\"><strong>Methodology &amp; Definitions<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-alpha-channel-opacity has-background\" style=\"background-color:#2f7d32;color:#2f7d32\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This section contains the definitions and methodology used throughout this report, both for readers who want the full picture and for anyone looking to verify how a specific figure was calculated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Data Source &amp; Scope<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All pet-level statistics in this report (Sections 1\u20133) are drawn from PawBoost&#8217;s internal lost &amp; found pet report database. A report is included in this dataset only if it was submitted with a photo. Reports without a photo are typically incomplete or abandoned submissions and were excluded from the analysis. Within the reporting period, this yielded <strong>644,798<\/strong> qualifying reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reach metrics in Section 4 (email alerts, impressions, comments, messages, app installs, shelter partnerships, and the attributed-reunion survey) are drawn separately from PawBoost&#8217;s platform and marketing analytics, not from the pet report database itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reporting Period<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report covers August 1, 2025 through July 31, 2026. This window refers to when reports were filed. Reunion outcomes for those reports are tracked through October 1, 2026, so a small share of the reunions counted here (about 1.6%) occurred after July 31, 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Report Types: Lost vs. Found<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Lost&#8221; and &#8220;Found&#8221; refer to who filed the report, not the outcome. A &#8220;Lost&#8221; report is filed by an owner reporting their own pet missing. A &#8220;Found&#8221; report is filed by someone who found a pet belonging to someone else. Neither term implies the pet was reunited; that outcome is tracked separately and described below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Reunited Rate Methodology<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A pet is counted as reunited if it has a recorded reunited timestamp and its final status is not &#8220;rehomed,&#8221; &#8220;surrendered,&#8221; or &#8220;deceased.&#8221; A small number of reports are marked as removed by the user or associated with a deleted account; these are counted as reunited only if a reunited timestamp was recorded, and are otherwise excluded entirely from both the reunited and not-reunited counts, since their outcome is genuinely unknown rather than a non-reunion. This rule is applied consistently to every reunited-rate figure in this report, including the overall rate, species-level rates, and geographic breakdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Found reports sub-classified as &#8220;deceased&#8221; are also excluded entirely from reunited-rate calculations. Regardless of what their top-level status shows, this outcome doesn&#8217;t reflect a live reunion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Median, rather than mean, is used as the primary measure of time-to-reunited throughout this report, because a small number of long-duration cases pull the average upward in a way that isn&#8217;t representative of a typical reunion. Mean figures are noted alongside the median for context where relevant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Time-to-reunited is measured from a report&#8217;s creation timestamp to its reunited timestamp, rather than from the pet&#8217;s last-seen date; last-seen date is recorded only to the day rather than the exact time, which adds meaningful imprecision at this scale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Time Zone Note<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All timestamps in the underlying dataset are recorded in UTC. Seasonal and day-of-week findings, which cover all countries, use UTC dates. Holiday comparisons cover U.S. reports only and convert each timestamp to the local date for the report&#8217;s state, using the state&#8217;s primary time zone (approximate for states spanning two time zones; Eastern for the small number of U.S. reports with no state recorded). 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