11/02/2025
It’s so sad to me that people don’t look for the owners of found cats before offering them up for “adoption” on social media, which can be very scary. Here’s what to do.
🐈⬛Found Cat Protocol
Please follow my advice.
🐾Just remember found animals cannot be re-homed by you. You have to make an effort by law to find the owner and if not turn over to Animal Control who will take to the shelter your town contracts with.
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Please knock on your neighbors door’s within a mile radius of where you found the cat.
It’s the law to report a found pet to the local police department as well as Animal Control and should also be reported to the shelter that Animal Control for the town contracts with.
Owners who have lost their pets will make a LOST pet report and Police and Animal Control work together to reunite the found pets.
Lost cats have patterns and they usually stay within a mile and most are found much closer to home as in a couple houses away or next street over.
Hand out cat flyers, speak to people.
Post flyers up on poles as well.
Please be sure to get proof of ownership before handing the cat over.
Call the local police and Animal Control to see if there was a missing pet report made the matches.
Take to any Vet for the free service of scanning for a microchip.
And thank you for helping this Kitty. Animals choose their rescuers. We cannot let them down.
K.R.