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Reuniting Pets With Their People
Rob Goddard
Helping Lost Pets (HeLP)
Kathy Pobloskie Lost Dogs of
America (LDA)
HeLP Partners With Volunteer Groups Across The US And Canada
Our Mission Is To Provide One Website Where Every Lost/Found Pet Is Listed
HeLP includes listings from the public
Shelters, Humane Societies, Animal Control Agencies
Veterinarian Clinics
It’s FREE and it’s National
Why a National Website?
Pets don’t know where county or state borders are and often end up in the wrong shelter.
Pet Owners face a massive task of trying to find where they should list and worry that they may have missed one.
When travelling with your pet, having volunteers that can help you to spread the word if your pet went missing, is invaluable.
We Believe Every Pet Should Be Microchipped And Tagged, BUT:
You can’t scan a pets microchip if you can’t catch them
The scan of the pet may miss the microchip
People are less likely to take a cat that is wandering to get their microchip scanned
HeLP Makes a Difference When Widely Used In The Community
“I have to give you a compliment on how well this has worked for us. The majority of lost and
found reports are now coming through your site. There have been several days I come in, get the email alerts, and then see that dog come in
the shelter later in the day.
It has helped us more quickly get the dogs out of the shelter and back into homes”.
William Wise, Director Walton Co. Animal Control
Monroe GA. USA
Pet Businesses & Other Organizations Can Also Join
Pet Stores
Groomers
Trainers
Rescues
Hotels
Daycares
Dog Walkers
Pet Sitters
Hats Off To Volunteers That Make The Real Difference!
Giving volunteers the
means to better match
pets, means more pets
will get back home!
When A Pet is Listed With HeLP You Can Create Flyers With Different Templates
When A Pet Is Listed With HeLP
Tweeted on
Email Alerts Are Sent To Our Members In The Area
On the Way!
Buttons That Allow You To Quickly Share
Our Partner Volunteer Groups Are Networking Using Their Facebook and
Twitter Pages
Lost Dogs of Texas has over 54,000 Likes
A Key Feature Of HeLP Is The Map
Search the entire country by breed, size, age or other parameters
Remember to click anytime you move the map or change your search parameters
Chihuahua’s 1,536 Adoptable, 541 Lost, 237 Found How many of those 1,500 Adoptable Chihuahua’s have families searching for them?
A Key Feature Of HeLP Is The Map
Why not create a flyer
for an adoptable pet, you can post
to your Facebook
page
Search the entire country or a neighbourhood
A Key Feature Of HeLP Is The Map
Most cats are found within a few blocks of their home. You can see how easy this would be for this cats family to find her.
Finding Cats Is Much Easier when the Lost and Found is Listed
Let’s get thousands of eyes
E-Matching Lost and Found Pets
The map also HeLPS you locate Animal Services, Shelters, Humane Societies and other organizations
Organizations are Visible too
Shelters can use HeLP for FREE to manage their Public Lost Reports.
No more need for Binders.
Shelters can easily list their
pets with us and we have other tools for them,
like our plugin for their own website
Location Based Alerts
Receive all Lost/Found Alerts for your neighborhood:
www.HelpingLostPets.com/ALERTS
Create A Subscription To Receive Targeted Alerts
By Status
By Area (Radius or Region)
Other Filters
Shelters can receive all Lost and Found Listings for their county
People not updating or removing their pet’s listing when they do
get back home, creates thousands of stale listings that make it more difficult to help
pets that are truly in need
YTD 2016, over 25,000 Pets listed with us got Back Home
Improving your Return to Owner Rate will Save More Lives
FACT: Reuniting pets with their family is the most cost-effective way to increase your shelter’s live release rate.
Can HelpingLostPets.com and Lost Dogs of America
make a Difference?
Since joining and using HelpingLostPets, our
RTO rate has gone from about 20% to over 80%
Chip Moore, Director/Manager Gwinnet County Animal Control
