How it works
Six steps.
About four minutes.
No account, no fees. The report is saved on your device as you go, so a dropped connection won't lose it.
- 1
Tell us about your pet
Species, name, colors, size. Thirty seconds. The flyer on the right fills in as you type.
- 2
Drop the pin
We ask for your location first — if you're standing where your pet went missing, that's the most accurate pin. Or type a ZIP, an address, or cross streets and drag the pin.
- 3
Add photos
Up to five. We strip location data from every file and resize them for the web and the printer.
- 4
Details that confirm it's yours
Marks, collar, microchip, how your pet reacts to strangers. Optional reward. We warn you about the common scams right there.
- 5
Post — and get your links
A public page, a letter-size flyer with tear-off tabs and a scan code, share buttons, and a private manage link by email.
- 6
Messages come to you
Anyone can send a sighting from the page. It reaches your email; you decide whether to reply. Mark the report “home” when your pet is back.
How one report travels
From one pin
to the whole
block.
- 1
Public page + flyer
A page for your pet with photos and an approximate area — and a letter-size flyer with tear-off tabs and a scan code.
- 2
Neighbor alert queue
Your report is queued for people who signed up for alerts within 2 miles (cats) to 5 miles (dogs) of the pin.
- 3
Sightings come back to you
Anyone can tap “Seen this pet?”. Messages are forwarded to your email — your phone stays private unless you choose.
- 4
Links travel further
Share buttons for group chats, Facebook and Nextdoor groups carry the page past the circle.
What stays private
- Your exact pin. The public page shows a quarter-mile area around a point moved slightly from it.
- Your email. Used for your manage link and forwarded messages. Never displayed.
- Your phone, unless you tick “show my phone”.
- Photo metadata. GPS and camera data are removed on upload.
Details in our Privacy Policy.
Never pay before you see your pet.
People who post lost pets get calls from “finders” who want money first — a transport fee, a vet bill, gift cards, or a “verification code” sent to your phone. A real finder can prove it: ask for a detail you never published, or a live photo with today's date. Meet in public. Bring someone. FoundRadar never charges and never asks for money.
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