Lost & Found Pets

If you have lost your pet, act quickly! The first 24 hours can make a difference in finding your pet. Please visit the shelter in person to see if your pet is here and put up flyers about your lost pet in your neighborhood.

The Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA can only accept stray animals found in the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County. This allows owners the opportunity to find their animals in the county where they live and lost them. If you find a lost pet please take that pet to the animal control facility in the county where it was found. Other area shelters are listed in the right sidebar.

Search For Lost & Found Pets

If you have lost a pet, click the “Found” button. If you have found a pet, click the “Lost” button.

Because of the high volume of incoming animals and the high volume of lost reports we can not be held responsible for finding your pet. It is recommended that you visit the shelter every three to four days. This will allow you to see every animal that comes through the building. When an animal comes in with no collar or ID it is held for six days prior to being put up for adoption. If it comes in with a collar or ID it is held for eleven days.

Call CASPCA at 434-973-5959 or email info@caspca.org.

Other tips for finding a lost pet:

If you live near other area shelters, you may try contacting some of them, listed at right.

Post signs with a cash reward, description and photo:
With neighbors, at local intersections, veterinary clinics, schools, grocery and convenience stores, and anywhere else you think might make a difference.

Contact and leave a description with your:
mail carrier, newspaper carrier, garbage truck drivers, local gardeners

Notify and place ads in the Lost & Found section of:

The Daily Progress 434-978-7202 x1 fax 978-7228
The Observer 434-295-0124
C-VILLE Weekly 434-817-2759 www.c-ville.com
WINA 434-220-2344