Find All Lost / Found / Stray Animals Currently at the City of Henderson Animal Care and Control Facility

It is important that you check the website above on a daily basis as well as call the shelter at 702-267-4970 and ask if anyone has reported your pet as found. Any animal entering the shelter as a stray is kept for 3 business days before being evaluated for adoption. If you don't reclaim your pet within the time given your pet becomes property of the City of Henderson.

24PetConnect

You can also go directly to 24PetConnect to view lost our found animals. We update the information several times daily. 

Contact Veterinarians

It is also a good idea to contact veterinarians in your immediate area to inquire if a client may have found a pet similar to yours and taken it to them. Check the lost and found pet pages on social media and the next-door application. If possible, put up "lost" flyers with pictures of your pet and where you can be reached. Please check the other public animal shelter, The Animal Foundation, to see if the animal was brought there too.

What to Do If You Find a Pet

If you live in the City of Henderson and find a pet, by law you must contact our facility, at 702-267-4970. You can also submit the information on Contact Henderson. If are requesting the lost pet to be picked up by an Animal Control Officer please call Henderson Police non-emergency at 702-267-5000 or you may turn the pet into the shelter during normal business hours. All stray and lost animals are held for a minimum of 3 days for the owner to reclaim.

Keeping a Pet

If you want to keep the pet you have found, you still need to contact our facility, at 702-267-4970 or by Contact Henderson and leave a description of the pet, information on the general vicinity of where you found the pet, and a phone number where you can be reached, so the potential owner that is looking for the pet can call you. The information you give us is logged into a "lost and found" book and cross referenced.

For the next 30 days you need to make (and keep proof of) attempts to locate the pet's owner; such as listing the pet in the found section of the local newspaper(s), reporting the pet being found to Animal Control, having the pet scanned for a microchip and contacting the person associated with the chip and ID tag (if the pet is wearing a tag).

However, an owner of a lost pet is more likely to visit a shelter regularly to look for their pet than coming to your house to look. Therefore, to avoid any confusion, frustration, or annoyance, turning the pet into the shelter is the best way to handle a found pet. If no owner claims the pet within the required hold period of three open business days, and you want it for yourself, then you could possibly adopt the pet which would give you legal ownership.

Types of Pets

There are many types of domesticated pets that you may be lost or found. In addition to dogs and cats, you need to report animals such as: ferrets, guinea pigs, snakes, birds, rabbits, iguanas, etc. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have lost or found any of them.