Flyers, shelters, vets, councils, and lost dog groups still matter. Paid social adds another layer: thousands of nearby people can see your dog while they are scrolling Facebook and Instagram.
Lost dog. Please look out locally.
Last seen around the last-seen area. Do not chase if nervous. Send the nearest location, time, and photo if safe.
Radius is set from the closest address, road, park, suburb, or landmark you give us.
This started with a real missing dog, a family trying everything, and years of digital marketing experience being used for one urgent job: get more local people to recognise Frank.
"He ended up at a house downhill from where he went missing. People started saying they had seen him after the advert was running."
From the Frank voice note, after he was foundFrank was injured and frightened. The people who found him could not safely check his collar. The missing poster mattered, but the paid local advert helped more people nearby connect the dog they were seeing with the dog who was missing.
Read the Frank example
People needed the photos, the place, and the instructions in front of them.
The advert gave people a simple way to send the time and location.
When a frightened dog cannot be approached, public awareness matters.
The page copy is built around the language owners use in the first hours: please look out, do not chase, tell me exactly where, and help me reach people who are not already in the groups I posted in.
"I have posted everywhere, but I do not know if the people near the last place he was seen have actually seen it."
"If someone sees her, I need the time, the place, and a photo if they can take one safely."
"Do not promise me a miracle. Just show me the alert ran and help more local people look."
Someone scrolling in your local area should understand the situation in seconds: who is missing, where they were last seen, what not to do, and how to send a useful sighting.
Missing dog near your local area
Last seen around where your dog was last seen. Please do not chase. If seen, send the closest location, time, and photo if safe.
The offer is deliberately plain: take the details, run a local sponsored alert, watch for useful replies, and show the owner what happened.
We are not replacing shelters, vets, councils, flyers, or search groups. We add paid local reach for people who would otherwise never see the post.
The ad radius starts from the closest place you can give us, then gets reviewed before launch.
You can keep your phone private and let suspicious replies be filtered before they reach you.
The report shows delivery, engagement, comments, shares, and message activity where available.
You can give us a closest address, road, park, woodland, beach, shop, suburb, or landmark. We use that to shape the first radius around your local area, the last-seen radius.
Each package is based on campaign duration, radius, creative work, and the level of manual monitoring.
For urgent searches where you need more nearby people to recognise your dog quickly.
Estimated reach varies by location, ad cost, and audience size. The report shows actual delivery.
Best when your dog slipped out recently and the likely search area is still tight.
For longer searches, bigger areas, nervous dogs, or cases where the travel direction is unclear.
For searches that need a bigger plan than one fixed area or one week of ads.
Owners should be able to see what ran, where it ran, and what people did with the alert. Sample numbers are illustrative; real delivery comes from the campaign report.
After years working in digital marketing, the Frank search made the gap obvious. Owners can do the right things and still miss thousands of nearby people who are not in the right Facebook group, did not see the flyer, or were simply scrolling past.
Face, full body, collar, markings, and anything that helps recognition.
The last-seen place sets the first audience, then we review it by hand.
Useful sightings matter. Suspicious messages should not waste search time.
We sell local visibility, setup, monitoring, and reporting. We do not sell a guaranteed reunion, and the website should be honest about that before anyone submits a form.
A clear photo or two, roughly where and when your dog went missing, and a few basic details like breed and any standout markings. That's enough for us to write the alert and start setting up the targeting.
Face, full body, collar, and any distinctive markings. A clear phone photo is fine, it doesn't need to be a professional shot, it just needs to be sharp enough that a stranger scrolling past recognises your dog.
We run alerts in the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand, anywhere Facebook and Instagram serve ads. Tell us the last-seen spot and we build the targeting around it.
Yes, and you should. Free posts rely on friends, groups and shares. A Find Dogs Fast alert is different: we create a paid Facebook and Instagram advert so your dog's photo can be shown to people near the last-seen area, including people who may never see your own post.
People in and around the last-seen area on Facebook and Instagram. Depending on the package, that can be a tight neighbourhood radius, a wider local area, or broader city-wide coverage.
It starts from the closest spot you can give us and widens from there depending on the package you choose. If the search area changes, message us and we can adjust the radius while the alert is running.
We write it. You send the photos and the details of where and when your dog went missing, and we turn that into the ad copy and creative, then get it live for you.
We keep an eye on comments and messages coming in and flag anything that looks like a genuine sighting. At the end you get a report of what happened, so you're not left guessing whether it actually worked.
No. You can keep your number private and have replies come through us first, which is worth doing since lost dog posts can attract scam messages from people with nothing useful to say.
Pricing depends on the package, area and duration you choose. Part of what you pay covers setup, writing and monitoring, and part is Facebook and Instagram ad budget used to show your dog's photo to people nearby.
Yes. If the search widens or you want more reach, message us and we can move you up to a bigger package or extend the run without starting over.
Full refund if you find your dog or change your mind before the ad goes live, no questions asked. Once it's live and has started being shown, we can't refund it, because the ad budget is already being spent and our setup work is done. Refunds are never based on whether your dog is found.
No. You pay once per alert. There's no auto-renewal and nothing running in the background you'll need to remember to cancel.
No. No honest lost dog service can promise that. What the ad does is get more nearby people aware quickly, so a genuine sighting is more likely to reach you while it still matters.
You get a report showing how many people the alert reached, along with comments, shares, and any messages that came in, so you can see exactly what happened rather than taking our word for it.
Yes, definitely keep doing that alongside the alert. Contact shelters, vets, local animal control or council services, update your microchip register, put up flyers, and keep checking local lost dog groups.
You'll have the full report waiting: reach, engagement, and any sightings worth following up. If your dog is found before then, just message us and we'll stop the alert straight away.