Steps to take if you have lost an animal:
- Go to the McLean County Animal Control Center daily to look for your pet. Your
description of your pet may not be the same as someone else's.
- Call the Humane Society of Central Illinois to report your pet lost in our lost and
found files.
- Visit the WJBC Pet Hotline Webpage
of the WJBC website and list your pet as lost.
- ALWAYS KEEP TAGS ON YOUR PETS! This is the easiest way to identify your pet if it does
get lost.
The Lost Pet Behavior article provides some very helpful recommendations
on how to search effectively for a lost pet.
Steps to take when finding an animal:
- If you wish to hold an animal that has tags until the owner can retrieve it, call the
McLean County Animal Control Center or the on-call officer to get owner information.
- If the animal does not have tags or you can not hold on to a pet that does, you must
call Animal Control at (309)888-5060 between the hours of 9:30 and 4:00, after hours
call your local police non-emergency number and they will page the on-call officer to
pick up the animal. Cats without tags may be accepted at both facilities. Please call
us first for availability at our facility.
This is the best thing for the animal! People know to look at animal control for their lost
pets! Also, an animal control officer may very well recognize an animal even if it doesn't
have tags. They are completely computerized and can find an owner very easily!
Lost and Found - What To Do
