Lost and found pets in Fayette County, GA

If your dog or cat went missing anywhere in Fayette County, including Fayetteville, Peachtree City, Tyrone, Brooks and Woolsey, 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 Fayette County Animal Shelter. There is no online form. Call the shelter and email photos to animalshelter@fayettecountyga.gov.
2. Check the shelter in person, often. Fayette holds strays before adoption but does not publish the exact number of days, so ask when you call. 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. Fayette new arrivals and available animals. 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 Fayetteville still work. A targeted neighborhood alert reaches the people who never check lost-pet groups.

Fayette County shelter and animal control

Good to know in Fayette County

• The shelter is in Peachtree City, not Fayetteville. The Fayetteville address on some county pages is the administrative office.
• The county says its arrivals page shows all new arrivals and is updated daily.

Found a pet in Fayette County?

Check for a tag, then take the animal to any vet or to Fayette County Animal Shelter to scan for a microchip. Scanning is free. Report the animal to the county at 770-631-7210 (option 0), 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.