Mascotafind

Lost Animals

Community of Valencia

Benitatxell

Boadilla del Monte/Comunidad Madrid

Porto Cristo/Sa Marineta

Why should you register your animal with MASCOTAFIND?

Time and time again animals go missing, leaving owners desperately searching for them. Our ambition is to help find these animals. Our nationally managed database for Spain is the ideal tool for this. If your beloved pet should ever get lost, registering it with MASCOTAFIND multiplies the probability of finding it again many times over. In this way, you contribute to the protection of your animal with a one-time registration fee of only 10 euro.

There are possibilities on social media to search for your pet. Generally, though, this is a time-consuming, nerve-racking task. All the sites must be searched manually every day as they are not linked to each other. And before you even can start searching the internet, you must find out what sites exist which could lead to success.Outside Spain there are various registers, but in Spain, up to now, there is not even one.

Ideally, your pet should be registered in a pet registry such as MASCOTAFIND and have a microchip implanted under the skin by a vet. The combination of these two measures are the best possible prerequisites to find your pet at all in case of loss. When registering with MASCOTAFIND all-important data about the animal, including photos, are recorded. In the event of a loss, they will be transmitted within the shortest possible time to all relevant, channels like for example animal welfare institutions, veterinary practices, authorities and private organisations such as rescue centers, feeding colonies etc. The microchip alone does not necessarily lead to success in an emergency. In many cases a lost animal is sighted but cannot be caught. Or else there is no way for the finder to take the animal to a vet or to the police to have the chip read. Even though most cats and many dogs are not microchipped, most missing animals can still be traced based on their description and indication where they were lost or found. With this information our database tries to find matches. This is the main task of the register. The system automatically compares reports of lost or missing animals we receive in all of Spain. In case of a “hit” the searcher will be contacted by e-mail and at the same time the finder will be contacted as well. On the MASCOTAFIND website everyone can quickly and easily view all animals that have been searched for and found. With the 24-hour emergency call service it is possible to exchange information in the fastest possible way.

Found Animals

Andalusia

Almayate

Community of Valencia

Alcossebre

All Animals Found Or Sighted

Register your pet!

Here you can directly and easily register your pet for a one-time fee of 10 euro. Please remember, the more accurate your pet’s details are, the easier it will be to find it again in the event of its loss.

Thanks to you, MASCOTAFIND can continue to track down lost animals.

Thanks to your support, we can continue to offer our database for reports very economically and our work for the welfare of animals and the happiness of people. We are a group of enthusiastic animal lovers. Most of us work on a voluntary basis and by agreement. We do not receive any subsidies from the government.

Thank you

Donation

Quotes of Interest

Scent carriers for lost pet emergencies

The head of the dog search organisation "Sniffer Dogs Mallorca" has an effective tip for being prepared in the case of an emergency when a pet goes missing. A great idea that every pet owner can and should use, in addition to microchipping and registration in our pet register "Mascotafind". It is very simple: Using disposable gloves, take a sterile cotton bandage (fleece dressing) from your first aid kit and rub it over the animal. Then store this scent carrier in a jar with a screw top. Label the jar with the name of the pet and the date of the sample. Store in a dark place. The odour sample will be good for up to 2 years and should then be replaced. This provides a clear "scent image" for the trailer / search dog when it has to go into action to find your lost pet. If you use this method together with microchipping and registration with Mascotafind, you can be sure that you will be well prepared for any emergency.

Pettrailling in Mallorca

The Pérez family recently had a new family member - a cat called Leila. The family lives in a finca in the countryside in Arta. The owner, Maria, had already heard about Mascotafind from friends and immediately registered her new pet there. Luckily for her - the plan to keep the cat within the house during the acclimatisation period went wrong. She escaped through a door that had been left open by mistake and disappeared. Completely distraught, Maria ran outside and tried to lure the cat by calling its name. Unfortunately in vain. Leila was not yet used to the surroundings, her new name or her new family - so she remained missing. Cats rarely respond to their own name; in fact, calling them frequently more often tends to scare them away. Especially in new environments cats are very jumpy and shy. As Leila had still not turned up after five days, Maria reported the cat as missing to Mascotafind. Our team reacted immediately and first looked at the area around the finca on Google Earth. The area looked easily accessible and open, which led the Mascotafind team to decide to contact the colleagues from Sniffer Dog Mallorca and, with their help, to start searching for Leila. On the same day, the helpers set off with Sniffer Dog manager Sabine Feicht and two search dogs to the Pérez family's finca. The dogs are trained to concentrate on the scent of the animal they are looking for. So, in spite of there being numerous other cats on the property, the search dogs were able to pick up her scent thanks to a cushion on which Leila had been sleeping for the past few days. However, after two and a half hours of intensive searching, Leila could not be found. But Sabine was still hopeful. Through her many years of experience and her ability to understand her dogs without words, she understood that the search dogs were reacting more intensively in several places in the garden. So it was clear to her: Leila was still there in the garden. So now it was a matter of finding her and bringing her home again. With Sabine’s help Maria set up a trap to catch the cat. One day later the plan worked and Leila was in the trap! Maria was overjoyed to have her new family member back with her after a week of stress and anxiety. Sabine and the Mascotafind team were also overjoyed to have another pet back with its owner. Through our partnership with Sniffer Dogs Mallorca, it was possible to ensure that the cat was indeed still on the premises. Fortunately, cats generally tend to stay in the area first, rather than run away. So a search with search dogs makes sense! However, one should not wait too long before starting the search - especially in the case of missing dogs, action must be taken quickly. Also, not every area is always suitable for working with search dogs. In Maria's and Leila's case, thank God, they had the right conditions and a Happy End.

5 years missing

With the permission of Kiki Drexler from Germany, we are allowed to publish her wonderful story on our site. This story, experienced on 16.4.2022, should encourage all those who have been missing their beloved animal for a long time: Already last autumn this beautiful longhaired cat visited friends of mine in their garden. Now the gardening season opened again a few days ago - and the cat was back. Because her fur was in a terrible state, I was called in for a chip reading. The whole coat is just clumps of fur and mats. Luckily, the sweetie is chipped AND registered, so the owner could be found today. The cat had been missing for 5 YEARS and is now returning home.

Bus travel in Mallorca

Since 17 January 2022, pets are allowed on all bus lines of the Municipal Transport Company (Emt) of Palma de Mallorca. For an amount of 30 cents per trip for an animal, the owners of pets are allowed to take them either with a leash and muzzle or, in the case of smaller animals, in a basket or cage. With this measure, Emt (Empresa Municipal De Transports De Palma De Mallorca) wants to show more commitment to animal welfare.