Lost & Found Animals
Lost Pets
Dogs and cats that the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office comes into contact with are usually taken to a local Humane Society in Bend or Redmond if no owner can be immediately located due to lack of collar, tags or other identification. There, the animal may be eventually reunited with its owner, or if no one claims it, eventually adopted out to a new home.
If you've lost a pet, please contact (541) 923-0882 ext. 200 for a current list of incoming strays or look for the stray report listed in the Bulletin.
If your pet isn't on our list of stray animals, try contacting the below organization:
Humane Society of Central Oregon
61170 S.E. 27th Street
Bend, OR 97702
(541) 382-3537
Monday–Friday 10 am to 5:30 pm
Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
Animal Receiving closes at 4:30
Animal Adoptions close ½ hour prior to the shelter closing
1355 NE Hemlock Ave.
Redmond, Oregon
(541) 923-0882
Mon-Fri. 10 am to 5 pm
Sat. 10 am to 4 pm
Lost Stock Animals
If you have lost or are missing a stock animal, please call the non-emergency telephone at (541) 693-6911 as soon as possible. A dispatcher can either take the information, or have someone from the Sheriff's Office call you for a more complete description.
Just as we ask people who have lost a cat or dog to check with and notify their local animal shelter, we ask that those who may have lost a stock animal to notify the Deschutes County Sheriff's Office and a local animal shelter as soon as possible. Many times, we may already have possession of such an animal that has yet to be reported missing. Since these types of animals rarely have any kind of identification other than a brand, we may not know who to contact as far as ownership. An owner's prompt notification of any lost or missing livestock animals avoids "wear and tear" on an animal, from transporting it to various locations instead of simply getting it back where it belongs.
Under Deschutes County's found/abandoned property policies, the Sheriff's Office can seek ownership of these unclaimed animals by first having such animals in their physical possession for sixty (60) days. After the first 30 days of that period, "Public Notices" are posted in three public buildings in Deschutes County and on this website. These notices, which are left in place for a period of thirty (30) days from the first date of posting, are usually placed in the front lobby at the main Sheriff's Office in Bend, downstairs at the Deschutes Services Center administration building at 1300 NW Wall Street in Bend, and downstairs at the Deschutes County courthouse on the public notices bulletin board. If no one claims such listed animals at the end of that 30-day posting period, the Sheriff's Office can then consider the animals as Sheriff's Office property, and the animals will usually then be put up for adoption.
