If you find a lost dog or cat, you can bring him or her to our Pet Adoption and Protection Center. While at the Center, we will check the pet for a pet identification microchip in hopes of reuniting the pet with its owner. According to County ordinance, anyone who finds a lost dog or cat must notify the County's Animal Services Department and have the dog or cat scanned for a microchip within 72 hours to find out if it's registered to an owner. Please click on this link to properly notify Miami-Dade County Animal Services. Failure to do so may result in civil penalty.

Finding Rover and Pet Harbor are additional sites that can help you to reunite your found pet with his or her owner.

Register and post photos of found pets on Finding Rover.

Register your found dog (Found DOG Registration), found cat (Found CAT Registration) or found pet - other than a dog or a cat - (Found OTHER Registration) with Pet Harbor.

To place a free found pet ad in The Miami Herald, call 305-350-2222 or fax the information to 305-995-8110. To place an ad in El Nuevo Herald, call 305-350-2345.