LostBlack dog, playful, no collar
Riverside Park · yesterday
PawtrailMake a report
The dog three streets over might be the one you’re looking for.
Pawtrail turns scattered Facebook posts, Nextdoor threads, and paper flyers into structured reports a computer can actually compare — by species, color, size, and location — so a match doesn’t depend on luck.
No account needed — just a report and a phone number so we can reach you if there’s a match.
Right now, finding your dog depends on luck.
A “found a brown dog near Elm St” post and a “lost my brown lab mix near Elm St two days ago” post are, in every way that matters, the same report. But they’re sitting in different Facebook groups, on different Nextdoor threads, or stapled to different phone poles — and nobody is comparing them.
Pawtrail gives Lost and Found reports one shared, structured format, so the comparison can actually happen — automatically, and fast.
From a paragraph of memory to a match, in four steps.
1
Report what you saw
Photo, species, color, size, last known location, and whatever you remember, in your own words.
2
AI reads the description
“Brown lab mix, white patch on chest” becomes fields a computer can compare: species, color, size, markings.
3
Pawtrail checks the feed
Found reports are filtered against Lost reports by species and by a rough location and date window, then ranked by similarity.
4
Claim it, prove it's yours
A private detail only the finder knows is checked against your answer before you two ever meet.
One paragraph in, a comparable record out.
People don’t describe pets in structured data — they describe them the way they’d tell a neighbor. Pawtrail reads that free text once and turns it into the fields the matching engine needs, plus a caption ready to drop on a flyer.
What someone typed
“Medium-sized brown lab mix, kind of skittish, has a small white patch on his chest and a limp in his back left leg. Last seen near the Elm St dog park around 6pm Tuesday.”
What Pawtrail extracts
- Species
- Dog
- Breed guess
- Labrador mix
- Size
- Medium
- Color
- Brown
- Markings
- White chest patch
- Behavior
- Skittish, slight limp
- Location
- Elm St dog park
- Last seen
- Tue, ~6:00 PM
See what’s been lost and found nearby.
Post a reportLost
FoundTabby cat, very friendly
Oak Avenue · today
LostBrown and white spaniel mix
5th St Market · 3 days ago
We don’t verify ownership. We reduce blind trust.
No app can cryptographically prove a pet is yours. So instead of pretending to, Pawtrail asks the finder to privately record one or two identifying details — a marking, a collar detail, a scar, a behavior quirk — that never appear in the public post.
When someone submits a claim, they describe that hidden detail and share an older photo. Pawtrail compares the two and gives the finder a plain signal:
2 of 2 details match · photo similarity: high
The finder still makes the final call — always. For the real gold standard, a microchip registry lookup like AAHA’s universal chip search remains the next step we’d point people to.
Ready to bring a pet home?
A report takes a few minutes. Matching starts the moment you submit it.