🐾 Here are a few things to try if you've found a lost pet in Arizona.
The NEIGHBORS by Ring app is amazing! 🎉 It has an impressive success rate, helping reunite about 70% of lost pets with their owners—often within hours. Ring and NEIGHBORS by Ring are two different apps, and you do NOT need a Ring device to use NEIGHBORS.
It only takes about 5 minutes to download the app and create a post, making it one of the fastest and most effective ways to help reunite a lost pet with its family.🎉
To quickly reach many people within a three mile radius:
▪️ Post the found pet on NEIGHBORS by Ring.
▪️ Also post on Nextdoor
▪️ Make simple flyers using a piece of paper and a Sharpie. Packing tape works great for hanging them up.
▪️ Place 4–8 flyers at the major intersections closest to where the pet was found.
▪️ Put a box in your front yard and write FOUND DOG or FOUND CAT in big letters so if the owners are driving the neighborhood, hopefully they will see it.🥰
▪️ Your flyers don't have to be fancy. Just write:
FOUND DOG/CAT
BREED
SIZE
COLOR
YOUR PHONE NUMBER
THAT'S IT!
▪️ Take the pet to any veterinary clinic and have them scanned for a microchip. It's free.
▪️ Don't assume the pet was abandoned. Their family may be desperately searching for them. ❤️
Every post, flyer, and microchip scan increases the chances of a happy reunion.
~ Lex Harrison 🐾
13-Year Rescue Advocate in ArizonaRead More
Every lost pet case moves through two phases:
Day-One Response (Upstream Assistance)
This is the early intervention phase—the first hours to first couple of days after a pet goes missing.
This phase focuses on fast action and prevention: getting the owner immediate, correct guidance
increasing local awareness quickly
organizing the first search efforts
improving the lost pet post for clarity and reach
assessing risk and situation early
using nearby resources and eyes on the ground
The purpose of upstream assistance is to recover the pet before the situation expands or becomes harder to trace.
When this phase is done effectively, many cases are resolved before they ever become long-term missing pets.
Long-Term Recovery (Downstream Assistance)
This is the extended search phase—when a pet has already been missing long enough that it may have moved beyond the immediate area or entered systems like shelters or rescues.
This phase focuses on tracking, investigation, and placement:
searching shelters, rescues, and intake systems
reviewing online databases and found-pet listings
identifying matches over wider timeframes and locations
supporting foster placement or rescue intake
piecing together information after time has passed
This becomes necessary when the early response window was missed or the pet was not recovered quickly.Read More
Next door AND Neighbors by ring (you don't need the ring camera for this app- it's not the Ring app)
These #1 way to reach people in the immediate vicinity. Please hurry!
And most likely the owners or the person that found your dog.
Dogs are usually within 1 to 3 mi of their home.
If you are an owner looking for your pet you also should be on these two apps. IMMEDIATELY!
Most people that find a pet post them on their first! You need to be on BOTH!!
THEY HAVE A 75% RETURN RATE.
NOTHING ELSE IS THAT HIGH.
FOR QUICK RESULTS POST THREE TIMES A DAY OR EVERY 4 HOURS.
AND ALSO MAJOR IMPORTANT COMMENT EVERY 20 TO 30 MINUTES ON YOUR POST FOR A DAY OR TWO.
There are rescue workers across the valley working the lost dog cases right now from the 4th of July runaways.
It's the busiest day of the year and it leads on for weeks!!!!!
Many pets will be put to sleep at the County shelter because owners don't find them in time.
It's the owner's responsibility to put clear information in their post so that rescue volunteers can help you find your own pet.
The valley is 10,000 square miles. That's worse than a needle and a haystack.
For this reason you need to put in the VERY 1ST LINE
A reward with the amount (if it's urgent to you that you find your dog safely. )
Then the major cross streets and your city. NOT YOUR LITTLE SIDE NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.
AFTER THAT YOU PUT YOUR INFO ON YOUR DOG.
Then your contact information which is hopefully a phone number because if your dog is running in the street about to get hit by a car you don't want to get an email the next morning. 😕
Any new pet added within 2 miles of your location will be automatically shared to your Nextdoor feed.
The post will automatically update when a pet is reunited.
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