Find a lost pet, the steps to take right away, and animal foundations across Thailand.
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Pet missing? What to do first
8 stepsTap each step to see what to do and its sources
1Search your home and around it right away
Do not wait for 24 hours to pass. Look under beds, behind cabinets and in storerooms, then walk slowly around your home, under cars and in bushes. Shake a treat bag or tap the food bowl, then stop and listen. Carry a recent photo of your pet to ask people in your neighbourhood.
Indoor cats that get out are usually found less than 3 houses from home, and they hide quietly during the day. Search late at night or before dawn, when the lanes are quiet. Shine a torch under cars and bushes to look for light reflecting from their eyes, then call their name in a normal voice, without shouting.
3Tell neighbours, security guards and nearby shops
Show the photo to neighbours, the security guards at your housing estate or condo, convenience stores, motorbike taxi stands and delivery riders in the area. Ask them to check garages, storerooms and CCTV from the time your pet went missing. Ask them, if they see your pet, not to chase it but to take a photo and let you know.
Within the first 24 hours, call the vet clinics and animal hospitals near your home, and the animal shelters and animal rescue groups in neighbouring districts. Send them a photo, then check back with them every day, because someone may already have picked up your pet and left it with them.
5Post in community groups, naming only the district
Post in the Facebook groups for your housing estate or district, lost dog and lost cat groups, and community LINE groups. Use a recent photo that shows the face and markings clearly. Give the date, the time and the district or neighbourhood where your pet was last seen. Do not post your home address or personal details.
Use a big headline that can be read from far away, such as LOST DOG or LOST CAT. Include a recent photo, colour, sex, age, collar, distinguishing marks, and the date, time and area where your pet was last seen. Put them up at the entrance to your housing estate, the security booth, convenience stores, markets, grooming shops and vet clinics.
A microchip only helps if the details on record are up to date. If you move house or change your phone number, update them right away, and tell whoever keeps the chip records that your pet is missing. For dogs and cats in Bangkok, you can check chip details or register at petregis.bangkok.go.th, where the registration period has been extended to 10 Jan 2027.
The cyber police warn that scammers claim to have found your pet and ask for delivery or fuel money, using photos of similar animals. Ask for a photo or video taken right then, ask about a marking you did not put in your notice, and if in doubt, call the 1441 hotline, open 24 hours.
These notices are samples of how the board looks. They are not real lost pets.
SampleDog
Thuadaeng
Bang Na DistrictLast seen 3 Oct 2026
Mixed-breed dog with a reddish-brown coat and a curled tail, about knee high, wearing a green collar with a bell.
SampleCat
Somjeed
Lat Phrao DistrictLast seen 5 Oct 2026
Orange tabby cat, male, with a short tail bent at the tip, wearing a light blue fabric collar. Afraid of strangers.
SampleDog
Cocoa
Bang Kapi DistrictLast seen 7 Oct 2026
Chocolate-coloured Chihuahua, small, about 3 kg, wearing a pink collar with a name tag.
Animal foundations
Gathered from each organisation's own website and news that names it. Every entry has a source you can check.
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26 foundations
Soi Dog Foundation
Phuket
Dogs
Cats
Sterilisation
Animal rescue
Adoption
Rescues, treats, sterilises and vaccinates stray dogs and cats. It has a shelter in Phuket and mobile sterilisation units that work 7 days a week. THE STANDARD reported that Phuket's stray dogs fell from about 80,000 in 2003 to 4,000 to 6,000 in 2018.
Rescues and rehabilitates injured, abandoned or elderly elephants, and since 2003 has run an elephant sanctuary in the Mae Taeng valley, Chiang Mai. Elephants at the sanctuary do not work, do not perform in shows and are not ridden, and the foundation also cares for other animals such as dogs, cats, cows and buffaloes.
Runs the FAE Elephant Hospital in Hang Chat District, Lampang, which the foundation says is the world's first elephant hospital, and has a mobile veterinary unit. From 1993 to June 2021 it treated 908 elephant inpatients and 1,637 outpatients, and handled 3,125 cases on mobile unit visits.
A foundation and member of Worldwide Veterinary Service (formerly Care For Dogs), with its centre in Chiang Mai. It looks after the welfare of community animals, mostly dogs and cats, through sterilisation, treatment and finding homes for dogs.
Helps injured, disabled and sick dogs and cats at its shelter in Chiang Mai, and looks after more than 100 other stray dogs and cats in Pai District, Mae Hong Son. It runs mobile sterilisation units with municipalities, for example 112 animals in Ban Dong Subdistrict, Mae Mo District, Lampang.
Thai Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (TSPCA)
Bangkok
Dogs
Animal rescue
Officially founded on 31 Jan 1994. It campaigns to end cruelty to animals, spreads knowledge and pushes for animal welfare protection laws. Its foster home project helps with food and medicine.
Began by helping stray animals during the 2011 floods and became a foundation in 2013. It treats stray animals that are injured or abused, sterilises them and finds adopters. Its website shows 1,805 animals sterilised (as of 10 Oct 2026).
Started as a project in 2006 and registered as a foundation in 2017. It helps with medical costs, sterilisation and finding homes for stray cats at temples and in communities, and has held a mobile sterilisation event every year since 2020.
Cares for more than 800 disabled or bedridden stray dogs and cats at 2 branches: Pak Kret, Nonthaburi, and Bang Len, Nakhon Pathom. Open for visits and donations every day, 11:00 to 17:00.
Works to protect forests and wildlife, following the ideals of Seub Nakhasathien, former head of the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, and has a forest ranger fund that people can support.
Uses animal protection laws and works with the police and government agencies to take legal action against people who abuse animals and against the dog trade. Registered as a foundation on 4 Oct 2019 and takes no government subsidies.
A shelter in Khon Kaen that takes in stray dogs, disabled dogs and cats that other shelters turn away. It currently cares for 350 dogs and 32 cats. Paralysed dogs receive swimming therapy and use wheelchairs.
Founded in 2001 in Phetchaburi. It rescues and rehabilitates wild animals that were kept captive or used in the tourism business. It has an elephant refuge, Thailand's first specialist wildlife hospital, and a clinic that sterilises and vaccinates homeless dogs and cats.
A non-profit organisation on Koh Lanta, Krabi, registered as a foundation in Thailand. It treats sick or injured dogs and cats, runs a mobile clinic and sterilisation work, and finds homes for the dogs and cats it has rescued.
A hospital for stray animals on Koh Phangan since 2001. It treats, sterilises and vaccinates stray and temple animals for free, with about 80 sterilisations and about 100 rabies vaccinations a month. It is a hospital, not a drop-off centre for animals.
Treats stray dogs and cats on Koh Samui free of charge. It runs programmes for sterilisation, vaccination, deworming and caring for dogs at temples, with 2 service points at Chaweng and Baan Taling Ngam.
A Thai registered animal welfare organisation that has cared for community cats in central Bangkok since 2019 through rescue, sterilisation, medical care and community education, working with temples, businesses and government agencies. In Dec 2024, with FOUR PAWS and Lanta Animal Welfare, it sterilised and vaccinated nearly 200 cats in 2 days at Wat Klong Toei Nok.
A foundation registered in Thailand that has helped dogs and cats in Chiang Mai since 2009. It runs mobile spay days on 3 to 4 weekends a month, has sterilised more than 15,000 animals in 8 years, and cares for over 150 animals at 15 temples, as well as treating sick animals and finding them homes.
An elephant sanctuary in Sukhothai Province, founded by Katherine Connor in memory of the baby elephant Boon Lott, where rescued elephants live safely and naturally. Visitors are not encouraged to approach or touch the elephants, there is no feeding or bathing of the elephants, and the sanctuary also cares for rescued dogs and cats.
A dog charity on a farm in the foothills of Khao Yai in Nakhon Nayok Province, started in 2017. Its main focus is sterilisation at the farm clinic and by mobile teams; it takes over 60 emergency rescue cases a month and rehomes dogs locally. GARC reported in Aug 2026 that it has 5 catch, neuter, vaccinate and return teams in Nakhon Nayok and Prachin Buri, with 15,370 animals sterilised.
A foundation in Bang Saen, Chon Buri, caring for 1,100 dogs: 700 at its centre and 400 fed on the streets. It runs a low cost clinic, sterilises dogs and cats at temples, its shelter and government sites in Bang Saen, and has a special care centre for sick, old, paralysed and disabled dogs.
A nonprofit organisation in Klaeng District, Rayong, founded in 2007, which built its shelter in May 2013. It feeds more than 300 street dogs every day, cares for about 300 dogs at its shelter, sterilises about 450 dogs a year using TNR, and finds homes for about 50 dogs a year.
A stray dog shelter at Ubon Ratchathani University, run under the name Hong Kuea Ma Club, that cares for stray dogs on campus, and the university takes the dogs for sterilisation and vaccination. On 19 Nov 2025 Ubon Ratchathani City Municipality visited the shelter to develop it into a model, the Ubon Model.
A nonprofit organisation in Khao Tao, Hua Hin District, officially formed in May 2014. It reduces the number of stray dogs and cats through sterilisation, vaccination and education, and arranges adoptions in Thailand and abroad. In Jan 2025 it carried out 371 sterilisations and surgeries and gave 401 vaccinations.
A sanctuary for dogs and cats in Sangkhla Buri District near the Myanmar border, formerly called Baan Unrak Animal Sanctuary and first founded in 2007. It runs a free veterinary hospital and regular spay and neuter clinics, finds homes for animals in Thailand and abroad, and its clinic has performed nearly 13,000 sterilisations.
Has rescued, trained and returned wild animals to nature since 1992. It runs the Gibbon Rehabilitation Project in the Khao Phra Thaeo Non Hunting Area, Phuket, which restores gibbons in body and mind before release into the forest, and it has released white handed gibbons into the Baan Pang Jam Pee community forest in Chiang Mai.
