I found a pet

How a report works

You do not need an account. Take a photo on the spot, or upload a screenshot of a post from a Facebook or WhatsApp group. If you upload a screenshot, we read what the notice says. We never keep the names or phone numbers in that image.

Then you say where and when you saw the animal. You can use your location, or type the neighborhood, the street, or a landmark. Only the family sees that location, and only if they confirm it is their pet. We never show it publicly. If the browser cannot read your location, you type the place yourself.

The time can be now, an hour ago, today, or yesterday. You can add a detail that helps them recognize the pet, such as the collar color, whether it looked scared, or which way it went. Your name is optional.

When you send it, we use AI to compare the photo with pets reported lost within a few kilometers. A match is never certain: the family looks at the photo and confirms. If the photo does not clearly show an animal, we ask for another. If there is no similar lost pet nearby yet, the report stays, and we compare it if someone reports their pet in the next few days. This page shows how many families are checking.

Keep the private link. It is how you see whether they confirm, and how you write to them. When they confirm, the message names the pet and the person to arrange the handoff with. Never ask for or send money upfront. Meet in a public place. When the pet is home, the report says so.

If you arrived from a QR tag, the report is compared with the pet on that tag as well as other lost pets nearby. Someone who scans an active tag sees the photo and only the details the family chose to share, and can alert them with one button. The family gets the place it was scanned. The same comparison applies when someone posts in the community that their pet is lost: photos from the person who found it are compared with that notice, and the family is the one who confirms.

The form has two modes. Take a photo uses your camera or a picture already on your phone. Upload a screenshot of a post is for a notice you saw in a group. While it uploads, the button says so. If it fails, you can try again. Before you send, it needs the photo and a place: your location, or text with the neighborhood, street, or a landmark. Without that, the form asks for it.

The report page is private. While we look at the photo, it says we are searching for lost pets nearby. If a family confirms, you can write to them from that page and refresh it to see the latest status. When the pet is home, the message says thank you. This does not replace taking an injured animal to a vet. A tag that is not linked to a pet yet asks you to take the animal to a nearby vet.