Lost & Found Pets in Tampa Bay

Shelter Services

Lost & Found Pets

Whether you’ve lost a beloved pet or found a stray animal, we’re here to help reunite pets with their families through resources, reporting tools, and community support.

What to Expect

Helping pets find their way home

Losing a pet can be stressful and emotional. Our team encourages pet owners to act quickly by filing reports, checking local shelters, and sharing information throughout the community.

If you’ve found a pet, scanning for a microchip and submitting a found pet report can help reconnect them with their family faster. Together, our community can help keep pets safe and reunited.

Report Quickly

Submitting a lost or found pet report increases the chances of a safe reunion.

Check Daily Listings

Browse local lost and found pet databases regularly to look for matches.

Identification Matters

Microchips, collars, and updated tags are some of the best tools for helping pets get home safely.

Stray hold policy update

Compassion, for animals and for the people and families who love them, is at the heart of the Humane Society of Tampa Bay’s mission. In recent days, we recognize that this guiding value was overshadowed by decisions that felt inflexible and harsh, rather than rooted in understanding and care. We are deeply saddened by the situation and the pain it’s caused. While we are grateful that reunification ultimately occurred, we feel it is important to acknowledge the experience and thoughtfully address our stray hold policy.

Through many meaningful conversations and after carefully listening to the comments, emails, and feedback shared by our community, the Humane Society of Tampa Bay has made the decision to update our “dead-end” microchip policy. Moving forward, even if a microchip is unregistered or does not immediately connect us with a pet’s owner, that animal will be held for a full seven-day stray hold period.

Additionally, we will continue encouraging and educating the public on the importance of microchipping and keeping the microchip current and registered. We are proud that 715 pets have been reunited with their families in the last year, and we will continue to work hard to reunite pets with their families. Although our policy has followed the current county ordinance of a 3-day stray hold, this change is intended to give families more time to search for their beloved pets and to better support the possibility of reunification.

Lost & Found Pets

Stray animals we currently have on hold are viewable below.
These animals are NOT available for adoption.

If you recognize your pet, please contact us immediately at 813.876.7138 or intake@hstb.org.