Introducing Petco Love Lost
We're reaching out to our adopters, rescue partners, volunteers, foster families, supporters, and lost and found leaders in our community to talk about Petco Love Lost, formerly known as Finding Rover. This free, centralized lost and found tool is a single database that uses patented facial recognition technology to make finding lost pets quicker and easier. It is used by the majority of shelters in our community, including BARCS, to display all lost and found pets. Having all lost and found pets posted in the same place means that distressed pet owners no longer need to check dozens of different sources every day.
Animal shelters are on board, but we need your help to spread the word about this software so that any time a pet is lost or found, we all turn to Petco Love Lost.
Here’s what you need to know:
- Petco Love Lost immediately pulls listings from shelter databases into a centralized place.
- Lost and found pets are both posted on there. Uploaded photos of a missing dog or cat are immediately scanned to determine whether the lost pet is at a participating shelter or with a neighbor in the community.
- Petco Love Lost is not just for shelters to use, but also for citizen-to-citizen matches.
- Petco Love Lost has a smartphone app and their website is mobile-friendly, allowing pet owners and finders to quickly report lost and found pets, even on the go. There is no faster method to alert both the community and all surrounding shelters.
- Petco Love Lost has award-winning pet facial recognition that makes matches, sending alerts of these matches to pet owners, finders and shelters.
Shelters, including BARCS, have helped test the facial recognition software, and we can tell you, it works!
You can register your pets in the database right now so that if they ever go missing, the software will automatically alert you of animals in shelters that look like your pet.
Petco Love Lost is a FREE national database sponsored by Petco Love, formerly known as the Petco Foundation, so that there is never any expense to pet owners, finders or shelters!
BARCS has been a proud partner of Petco Love Lost, a free program of Petco Love, since their launch. We have seen matches made both in our shelter and between community members. However, this program will only work to its full potential if our whole community is on board. Please help us spread the word about this lifesaving program so that we can reunite more animals with the families that love them.
Next time you see a lost/found post either in a group, on a neighborhood page or on a friend’s private account, link them to Petco Love Lost and use this paragraph:
“Baltimore and the Greater DMV area use a centralized lost and found database called Petco Love Lost. It uses award-winning animal facial recognition software to match lost and found pets. Petco Love Lost links directly to the databases of a majority of the shelters in our area and also supports citizen-to-citizen matches. Please post this pet there immediately: https://lost.petcolove.org/”
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