Lost Dogs' Home
The Lost Dogs’ Home is an Australian organisation with shelters and pounds in both Victoria and New South Wales. It was established in 1910 to provide a temporary home for Melbourne’s lost and starving dogs. Today The Lost Dogs’ Home cares for more than twenty-one thousand lost, stray, injured and abandoned dogs and cats every year and is Australia’s largest animal shelter. They also host services and initiatives to promote animal welfare and responsible pet ownership.
Function
In its role as a normal animal shelter, The Lost Dogs' Home provides an adoption service and shelter for cats and dogs, accepts unwanted pets for rehoming, and traps and collects stray and feral cats. It also operates a Boarding kennels and boarding cattery.
As an advocacy group, The Lost Dogs’ Home promotes responsible pet ownership and has launched an online pet license program to help prospective owners understand what is required to be a responsible owner.
The Lost Dogs’ Home also owns and operates an Australia-wide pet identification and recovery service called the National Pet Register. The National Pet Register issues free individually numbered identification tags and records microchip numbers on a national database.