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Lost and Found
If you are missing a pet, it is important that you check the found pets below on a daily basis as well as call Animal Protection Services at 702-267-4970 and ask if anyone has reported your pet as found. Any animal entering Animal Protection Services as a stray is kept for three business days before being evaluated for adoption. If you don't reclaim your pet within the time given, your pet becomes property of the City of Henderson.
Found Pets
Additional Resources for Locating Lost Pets
If your missing pet is not listed on our website, there are other options available, and the more tools you use, the better your chances of bringing them home safely. In addition to checking our Lost & Found listings, we strongly encourage you to take advantage of the following resources:
Contact Veterinarians
It is a good idea to contact veterinarians in your immediate area to inquire if a client may have found a pet similar to yours and taken it to them. Check the lost and found pet pages on social media and the Nextdoor application. If possible, put up "lost" flyers with pictures of your pet and where you can be reached. Please check the other public animal shelter, The Animal Foundation, to see if the animal was brought there too. You can reach them at (702) 760-PETS.
Petco Love Lost
Petco Love Lost is a free, nationwide pet recovery system that uses facial recognition technology to help reunite lost pets with their families. Simply upload a photo of your lost dog or cat, and the system will scan thousands of found pet listings from shelters, rescues, and the public. Click the button to search on their website.
What to Do If You Find a Pet
If you live in the City of Henderson and find a pet, by law you must contact our facility, at 702-267-4970. You can also submit the information on Contact Henderson. Petco Love Lost also has an option to report a found pet.
If are requesting the lost pet to be picked up by an Animal Protection Officer, please call the Animal Protection Services facility at 702-267-4970, or you may turn the pet into the shelter during normal business hours. All stray and lost animals are held for a minimum of three days for the owner to reclaim.
Keeping a Pet
If you want to keep the pet you have found, you still need to contact our facility, at 702-267-4970 or by Contact Henderson and leave a description of the pet, information on the general vicinity of where you found the pet, and a phone number where you can be reached, so the potential owner that is looking for the pet can call you. The information you give us is logged into a "lost and found" book and cross referenced.
For the next 30 days you need to make (and keep proof of) attempts to locate the pet's owner; such as listing the pet in the found section of the local newspaper(s) or on websites such as Petco Love Lost, reporting the pet being found to Animal Protection Services, having the pet scanned for a microchip and contacting the person associated with the chip and ID tag (if the pet is wearing a tag).
However, an owner of a lost pet is more likely to visit a shelter regularly to look for their pet than coming to your house to look. Therefore, to avoid any confusion, frustration, or annoyance, turning the pet into the shelter is the best way to handle a found pet. If no owner claims the pet within the required hold period of three open business days, and you want it for yourself, then you could possibly adopt the pet which would give you legal ownership.
Types of Pets
There are many types of domesticated pets that you may be lost or found. In addition to dogs and cats, you need to report animals such as ferrets, guinea pigs, snakes, birds, rabbits, iguanas, etc. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have lost or found any of them.