The best way you can protect you pet is to make sure your pet is microchipped and wearing a collar with tags containing current contact information! Concho Valley PAWS can assist with microchips and pet tags! Come visit us!
Please remember! Concho Valley PAWS is an animal advocacy organization offering adoption services, low cost spay and neuter programs and a variety of support programs for pets and their people. We do not provide animal control services such as lost or stray pet impound for San Angelo and we do not operate the San Angelo Animal Shelter. This information is provided to help you locate your lost pet or assist you in helping get a found pet back home.
About lost pets at the San Angelo Animal Shelter: When a stray pet arrives at San Angelo Animal Shelter, the shelter allows for a 3 day stray hold for identification by owners. If a pet is not identified, the animal becomes the property of the City of San Angelo per city ordinance and is made available for adoption, rescue placement or euthanized.
The city’s animal shelter euthanizes pets regularly for space. It is NOT a "no kill" shelter. Therefore, it is important that you act quickly when you have lost a pet!
Things To Do if You’ve Lost Your Pet:
- List your lost pet on national lost and found pet on Petco's Love Lost website. Report and Search Lost and Found Pets | Petco Love Lost
- Visit your local animal shelter every day and ask to see the animals in processing, as well as in the kennels. Do not call and ask about a pet. Chances are the staff working the phones have no idea what has been brought in and they will not walk the kennels to look. In addition, the shelter may identify the pet as a different breed from what you refer to it as. No one can identify a pet like it’s owner.
- Print flyers and post them in the area where the pet was lost. Make sure to include a photo of your pet and phone number where they can reach you.
- Search your neighborhood thoroughly and often. Ask neighbors if they have seen your pet.
- Share the Petco Love Lost link on all of your social media accounts and to local rescue groups.
Things To Do if You’ve Found a Pet:
- Do not approach a dog that is growling or acting aggressively. Contact animal control.
- If the pet is friendly and there are no safety concerns, you can take the pet to the nearest veterinary clinic or rescue to have the pet scanned for a microchip. Hopefully, the pet is chipped and it will go home from there! If not you can also do the following:
- List the found pet on national lost and found pet on Petco's Love Lost website. Report and Search Lost and Found Pets | Petco Love Lost and share that link on your social media pages
- Print flyers and post them in the area where the pet was found with a phone number where they can reach you.
- Ask neighbors if they recognize the pet.
- If you cannot find the pet's owner, you can participate in a good Samaritan rehoming program by contacting Concho Valley PAWS to help keep the pet out of the shelter. You can learn more by calling us at 325-656-7387 Ext. 5.
- As a last resort, the pet can be taken to the San Angelo Animal Shelter. Just remember, if it is not claimed in three days, it may not be given an opportunity at adoption.