My Story

FindToto.com is currently at a Find rate of 2 in 5 lost pets. According to our research our Found Rate is the highest in the industry!

My Inspiration to provide a notification service stems from a personal loss of my own. I lost my cat, and best friend, “Cutie McPretty”. I spent hours upon hours, which turned to days, searching. I combed the neighborhood with flyers, knocked on a countless number of doors, contacted shelters and animal hospitals, and exhausted all the tips the internet could provide me to help find my lost pet, and still, no Cutie McPretty. Because I work full-time, I knew it would be impossible for me to contact everyone in my community to notify them of my lost pet. After attempting every obvious method possible (minus hiring “Ace Ventura”), I soon realized that not everything had been done to find Cutie. Yes, I had door knocked as much as possible but more than half of my neighbors weren’t even home. That is when the “not so obvious” method came to me. I thought, “I really wish I COULD call ALL of my neighbors and at least leave a message.”

I found that no such service existed. A service that would allow me instant access to contacting my neighborhood and surrounding communities to alert them of my missing pet. Had my neighbors been notified of my missing pet, Cutie McPretty may be home with me today. I would have had the peace of mind knowing that I did EVERYTHING possible to find my beloved friend. So, I’m here to give you that peace of mind. The peace of mind that you DID do everything possible to find your beloved pet. We are the “Amber Alerts” for pets.

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Ten Commandments for Pet Owners

1. My life is likely to last 10 to 15 years. Any separation from you will be very painful.
   
   
2. Give me time to understand what you want from me. Do not break my spirit with your temper, though I will always forgive you. Your patience and understanding will teach me more quickly those things you want me to learn.
   
   
3. Have me spayed or neutered.
   
   
4. Treat me kindly, my beloved friend, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for your kindness than mine. Don't be angry with me for long, and don't lock me up as punishment. After all, you have your job, your friends, your entertainment. I have only you.
   
   
5. Speak to me often. Even if I don't understand all your words, I understand your voice when it's speaking to me. Your voice is the sweetest sound I ever hear, as you must know by my enthusiastic excitement when your footsteps fall upon my waiting ear.
   
   
6. Please take me inside when it's cold and wet. I'm a domestic animal and am no longer accustomed to the bitter elements. I ask for little more than your gentle hands petting me. Keep my bowl filled with clean water; I cannot tell you when I'm thirsty. Feed me good food so that I may stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to be by your side, and stand ready, willing and able to share with you my life, for that is what I live for. However you treat me, I'll never forget it.
   
   
7. Don't hit me. Remember, I have teeth that could easily crush the bones in you hand, but I choose not to bite you.
   
   
8. Before you scold me for being lazy or uncooperative, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I am not getting the right food, I've been out in the sun too long, or my heart may be getting old and weak.
   
   
9. Take care of me when I get old. You will grow old too.
   
   
10. When I am very old, when I no longer enjoy good health, please do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having fun. Just see to it that my trusting life is taken gently. And be with me on that difficult journey when it is time to say goodbye. Never say, "I can't bear to watch". Everything is easier for me when you are there. I will leave this earth knowing with my last breath that my fate was always safest in your hands. I love you.