Lost and found pets in Bartow County, GA

If your dog or cat went missing anywhere in Bartow County, including Cartersville, Adairsville, Emerson, Euharlee and Kingston, this page has the shelter, the phone numbers and the order to do things in. Everything here comes from the county’s own published information.

Do these today

1. Contact Bartow County Animal Control. File a report with Bartow’s online lost pet form.
2. Check the shelter in person, often. Bartow does not publish a stray hold period online. Call and ask. Walk the kennels yourself every couple of days. Staff may not match your description to the animal in front of them.
3. Watch the online list daily. Bartow Animal Control on Petfinder. Online listings can lag behind intake by a day or more.
4. Search close to home first. In a national ASPCA-backed survey, about half of recovered dogs were found by searching the neighborhood, and most recovered cats came home on their own or were found nearby. Walk your streets, look under decks and in garages, and talk to everyone you pass.
5. Post everywhere free. File a report on Petco Love Lost (many metro shelters photo-match against it), post on Nextdoor, and share in local lost-pet Facebook groups.
6. Get the word to neighbors who aren’t looking. Flyers at eye level on main roads near Cartersville still work. A targeted neighborhood alert reaches the people who never check lost-pet groups.

Bartow County shelter and animal control

Good to know in Bartow County

• Bartow Animal Control serves Bartow residents only and visits are by appointment.

Found a pet in Bartow County?

Check for a tag, then take the animal to any vet or to Bartow County Animal Control to scan for a microchip. Scanning is free. Report the animal to the county at 770-387-5153, post a found pet report, and add it to Petco Love Lost. Before you hand a pet over, ask the person to describe something you left out of your post. Our guide to lost pet scams covers the common tricks.