Medlock Animal Lover Creates Missing Pets Website

Missing pets in the Medlock Park neighborhood now have a high-tech way of being reunited with their owners.

Neighborhood animal lover and web developer Andrea Greengard has created a pet registry site where pet owners can register their animals and create free pet profiles. She has worked at local web company WebXperts.com for the last 10 years

The idea sprang from the Medlock Area Neighborhood Association's Facebook page where residents would often post messages seeking missing pets.

“I kept reading posts from people about how they'd lost a dog, found a dog, had anyone seen this dog, etc.,” explained Greengard. “So, I thought it would be nice to have a centrally located area where people could search pets living in Medlock Park."

Area residents can go to the MANA pet registry site, register for free and create unlimited pet profiles, one for each pet. Each pet profile can include two photos.

If you find a stray animal in the neighborhood, you can go to the site and search by from the type of pet, color, weight range and other characteristics.Just clicking on “dogs” would bring up all the registered dogs in the neighborhood, complete with the owner’s name, address, phone, cell and email, all of which an owner can choose to show or not show in the search results.

The site has only been “live” for about a week, but already has 41 registered pet profiles, including a black dachshund named Rocky, a deaf cat named Draco, and a small black dog named Monkey who is so friendly, he “will try to French kiss your pets,” warns his owner.  

Ben Brumfield registered his 13-year-old gray tabby, Feathers, and thinks the registry is a good idea.

“If a cat gets lost, chances are it’s not going to go far,” said Brumfield from his home, with Feathers meowing in the background. “A cat is very territorial. I keep a collar on my cat as it is, and that has telephone number on it. My cat has lost collars and neighbors have found my cat’s collar. This is a very tight-knit community.”

Greengard said she built the site and is hosting it on her personal server “as a favor to my neighborhood.” She describes her home as “an ark,” in which she and her boyfriend share space with three dogs, two cats, an iguana, a leopard gecko, water turtles, a large frog and a huge fish tank.

“As I told someone else, if this site helps just one person be reunited with their lost pet, I’d be satisfied,” Greengard said.