What to do if you have lost your pet!

Call us as soon as you find your pet is missing. We also highly recommend visiting our facility every two days while your animal is missing! We also highly recommend hanging posters with your contact information and a picture of your pet in the community in which your pet was lost.

If you live in Newton, and your pet is picked up by animal control it will be brought to Caring Hands Humane Society. If you live in another city within Harvey County it is important to contact your local animal control department as well as Caring Hands Humane Society. Often, kind individuals who find stray pets will bring them here to CHHS as well, both from Newton and from other locations in Harvey County.

Once you call us, we will check the animals here and also fill out a lost pet report, and if a pet matching the description you provide comes in, you should get a call. IT IS STILL YOUR RESPONSIBILITY TO CHECK FOR YOUR ANIMAL IN PERSON. Although we do our best, Caring Hands Humane Society CANNOT guarantee matching every lost report with animals who come into our care. This is for many reasons, including difficulties in accurately typing mixed breed dogs and limitations of our software. The bottom line is the only 100% accurate method to determine if your lost animal is here is for you to identify it in person.

If this is impossible, then at a minimum you will need to call every two days or 48 hours to follow up!

This is because there is a three day stray period. During this time the animal is still legally yours, and you can reclaim it as long as you pay any fees that are due including city fines, boarding and other fees. After three days, the animal becomes the property of CHHS, and the animal may or may not be available for adoption. We work in the reality of too little resources to save all the animals (yet!). Please call us as soon as your pet is missing and continue to check back every two days!

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