BIG NEWS! Pet FBI Lost and Found Pet Database Enhancement

AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT FROM PET FBI's DIRECTOR: ​

Starting today, August 5, we are instituting a huge new time-saving feature for our database users. We are confident this enhancement will result in many more reunions. From now on, when you submit a lost or found pet report to the Pet FBI database, you will automatically receive information on any new potentially matching reports.

Here's how it works: Suppose you submit a lost cat report. If a "found cat report" is submitted with a zip code within 25 miles of the zip you used in your report, you will be notified. New Report Alerts will be emailed daily, unless there is nothing new, and they will continue for 90 days from the day you submit your report or until you "unsubscribe". Here's a sample:

Found Dogs for 7/29/2015 within 25 miles of Zip Code 43002

The new reports will not be filtered by sex or color since people so often make mistakes about these characteristics. So you may get some extra information but that is better than missing that one critical report because someone thought your neutered male cat was a female. In any case, the New Report Alerts will be easy to skim and you will be saved the bother of having to do a manual search every day to see if there is anything new.

It will still be possible of course to do a manual search. If your report has not resulted in a reunion after 90 days, you can continue to look and even extend the search radius to 250 miles.

We would love to hear back from you if you have any suggestions about the New Report Alert or about anything else on Pet FBI.

Thanks to Glen, our ace volunteer database programmer who put a lot of work and thought into this!

With best wishes for a happy reunion,

Maresa, Pet FBI Director/Volunteer