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The world's easiest place for reporting pets you think might be lost. Your reports help reunite cats and dogs with their families. Privacy policy. Thank you!
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Our Story
Lost and Pound began in Boston in 1923, when veterinary clerk Loren Ipsham famously converted the city's entire lost-horse complaint system into a lost-pet complaint system by crossing out "horse" and writing "cat or dog" in pencil on every single form.
For over a century, the Bureau remained distinctly clipboard-based until the 1987 acquisition of our first filing cabinet marked a turning point in institutional maturity that we remain proud of. Today, Lost and Pound uses the World Wide Web to enable people all over the world to report lost cats and dogs and help reunite them with their families.
What started with one clerk has grown into a global movement, with pet lovers reporting sightings from every continent. That's right, even Antarctica, where last week we received one report from the Ross research station of a penguin who wandered into the break room, ate someone's fish sandwich, and then refused to make eye contact.