Lost and Found
The best prevention against losing your animal is to place a license AND identification tag on your pet. Keep these tags on your pet at all times, even if the animal “ never leaves your house”. You would be surprised at the number of customers who tell us, as they reclaim their pet which somehow ended up at the shelter, that 'Fido' doesn't wear ID tags because he is never outside.
Lost
If you have lost an animal, you MUST come down to the shelter in person as soon as possible (go to Hours of operation).
To access a list of all animals in our kennel, go to the Online Kennel Inventory cat page or the Online Kennel Inventory dog page
Why must you look in person? No one knows your animal as well as you, and you may provide a description that differs from a kennel person's observations. If the animal is not here on your first attempt, don't give up! Someone may be holding the animal at their residence to try to find the owner, only to bring it here days, weeks, even months later. Be sure to post signs in your neighborhood, at local veterinary clinics and pet supply outlets and place an ad in your local newspaper. Go door to door in your neighborhood, talk to service personnel (mail, trash, meter readers etc.). It is important that you visit the Shelter at least every other day! Check at neighboring shelters such as the Humane Society of Ventura County, the Agoura Shelter, and Santa Barbara Co. Animal Services.
It is a sad fact that we may have found your animal dead on the roadway or in your neighborhood. Please check the list of the deceased animals that have been picked up or turned in.
Found
If you have found an animal, bring it to your local shelter or call us. If you do call for an officer to pick it up, be advised that we may not be able to respond immediately. Once the animal is here, we will hold it for at least the state-mandated period of time while looking for the owner. If the owner does not reclaim the animal, you may be able to adopt it yourself. However, we do not, have not, and will not promise, reserve, or hold any animal for a specific person except the actual owner.
If you opt to hold onto the animal while attempting to locate the owner you must make a concerted effort to locate that person. You cannot legally give the animal to a "rescue" or other party until you have attempted to locate the owner for at least 30 days. Place a “Found” ad in the local newspaper, fill out a Found report at either or both of our facilities, notify the Humane Society of Ventura County and post signs in the neighborhood where you found the animal. Since microchips cannot be seen by the naked eye, it is important that you have the animal scanned at a Shelter or Veterinary hospital for possible microchip identification.
Helpful Links
PETS 911
License information
Microchip identification information
Camarillo shelter... general information
Simi shelter.. general information
Pet Harbor
