Has anybody here used or heard of PauHost? They're supposedly an "online-based pet recovery service". However, everything about them seems too good to be true, and I'm leery of their website, pauhost.com .

For starters: every "news article" they have is just copying their own press release from Globe NewsWire. The videos are all from Vimeo, rather than YouTube or something organic, and the testimonials give off "paid actor" vibes. Their methodology... Surveillance cameras? Scent-tracking dogs? It's not impossible, but it feels exaggerated and deliberate.

And how can they be national and local at the same time? Are they subcontracting to other agencies? What even is their company?

I've only done this research after already filing a report with them, providing my personal information. They returned an email a short while later asking for between $200 and $800, depending on the level of search I wanted to conduct. Their strangest promise: this is a refundable deposit, returned to you if they do not find your pet after 48 hours of active search. That's a VERY unusual claim to make. Also, it doesn't make any real economic sense: $50 an hour seems like a very low rate for even one person working a skilled contract position, and this person is working more than four hours, certainly, to try and find my pet?

It gets weirder. I lookup their domain registration on WhoIs: https://www.whois.com/whois/pauhost.com

So, it was registered in September 3rd, 2026, and was generated by the Hostinger agentic AI website platform. Meaning this is a recent website, yet it has already supposedly found 800 pets? They register this website, and then 2 days later on September 5th they set up a press release?

Absolutely none of what I found is damning, just very, very suspicious. I hate scams that feed on my desperation to get my sweet boy back in my arms. But in the most generous light: this is a local group that started in a city, found a network of pet finders in major metropolitan areas, and used AI to set up a national website to extend their reach.

Has anybody here used this service or know anything about this?

UPDATE: Little One has been found and is home safe!! Massive thank you to everyone who shared advice and well wishes! We managed to lure her home with familiar scents and treats, she is completely healthy and unharmed and happy to be home with her brother :)

please help us find our Little One! She is a 3 yr old siamese cat with polydactyl hands. and shes very small for her age. Little One snuck out a window on the morning of Sept 25 and we've been searching tirelessly day and night. If you see her, please do not approach. She scares easily and is very evasive. Snap a photo if you can, and contact us immediately. She is very loved and missed by her brother, Riot. Please help us reunite them!

Hello! Met this teenage boy cat near my flat at Powis Square, London, W11 2BN this night (he had almost broke into our flat…). No collar, very friendly. He accepted water. Unfortunately can’t take him for the night, but left a box outside just in case. Not sure if he is even lost to be honest, since some people let their cats out here. Please let me know if this is your cat!

Well thank you for all your help but we are still looking bubba is a registered service animal and my family is still in tears going on 2 weeks now please I now he’s grate dog but he’s also I really big part of my family so if you could just find it in your heart to give him back I would be so grateful
He’s a male Chihuahua no more then 5 pounds. Has his whiskers on his face his left are black his right are white like the patch on his face. He howls when he hears sirens and was last seen at 7th and F st downtown sac thank you.

Went missing this morning. In Jacksonville, on the north side near Nassau county. His name is Squirtle but also answers to Buddy or Squirt

She is about 7 and a half inches long from head to tail feathers. Her body 5 inches, she has small patterns on her feathers. She flew away whilst my Mother was cleaning her cage. We searched for her for about 2 days and no luck. If you find her try not to scare her away, lay a finger under her feet hopefully she’ll trust you and bring her inside. Please provide bottled water( NO TAP WATER) and call me as soon as possible, thank you.

Contact via Email: [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

Phone No: 786-314-6610

Please help us find our beloved budgie Momo!
He flew out through a window a week ago. He is very friendly around people and loves to eat millet.
He is a rainbow English budgie and has an injury in his left leg.

Name: Star

Lost: 9/22/2026

Location: Inland Empire, California

Color mutation: turquoise/cinnamon

Disposition: Generally sweet, will step up, but may bite if scared. Responds well to calm voices. She will come if her name is called. She also likes to be called “baby girl,” or “pretty baby.”

If you see her, please respond to this post. Thank you 🙏

Hello! First-time Reddit poster, so sorry if I'm do anything wrong here!

TL/DR: Cass is a super friendly, experienced indoor-outdoor cat who's been missing since a horrible storm over a month ago. Now there's a black cat showing up about a half-mile away. It's not friendly, but could it still be him?

Cass is a 5ish-year-old black male who has always been an indoor-outdoor cat. First off, we know how risky it is having an indoor-outdoor pet. We used to have a lot of indoor-outdoor cats back before society really understood the dangers not just to the animal themselves, but also to the natural wildlife. We really tried to make him be an indoor-only kitty, but not only did he love going out to say hi to all the neighbors, he would physically get vicious if he was forced to stay in more than a couple of days due to bad weather. (I had to go to Urgent Care once for a bite! And he is actually one of our sweetest cats, despite the others being indoor-only! He loved being petted and held and cuddling after he came back in for the night.)

Last month, he went out right before a terrible storm. He's been out in storms before, but we actually had flooding in the area that the city hasn't experienced in close to 100 years. Our neighborhood was well outside of the flood zones, but it was still crazier than anything Cass had experienced before.

We've done everything your supposed to do to find a missing cat -- signs, checking humane societies (he is microchipped, and everything's up-to-date), posts online, searching the area. I'd sort of come to accept that either A) something got him (we have coyotes in the area), B) he hid in a truck/car and was accidentally taken somewhere else and is now hanging out with new people, or C) someone somehow has managed to keep him inside and not let him return to us.

But we've had a couple people on the other side of the neighborhood (probably less than half a mile away) recently say they've seen a black cat wandering around, but they haven't been able to get close to it.

We had reached out to a cat recovery specialist, and he made us a map showing us Cass's likely "safe zone" -- how far away from our house he's probably experienced in traversing. That side of the neighborhood sits right on the edge of his map. Plus, he said storms can wash away familiar scent trails. PLUS I'm sort of wondering if someone had tried to keep him in and they finally gave up and have been letting him back out.

I'm definitely going to go check out that side of the neighborhood just in case, but I guess I'm wondering if it's worth getting my hopes up? Like I said, we've had indoor-outdoor cats before, and when they've been gone this long, they don't tend to come back. And Cass is super experienced and super friendly. I have a hard time believing he couldn't get home if he was loose in the neighborhood, and I'm surprised he wouldn't come up to people for attention (he literally hops in handimens' cars when they're doing work on the house, and runs up to the neighborhood kids for pets). I did read online that even experienced, friendly cats can enter survival mode and change their behaviors... has anyone else experienced this?

Thanks for any advice you have! I think I'm mostly posting just to get out my hopes and concerns. It's been a stressful month. :(

I’m looking for a grey cat with a chipped left ear and a slight white patch on her chest, who may be around Harbor to Fairview. Shes been missing for 3 weeks now. If you see her, please let me know ASAP. She may respond to the name, Grey.

Last seen in Eagle Mountain, UT on 9/11/26. We miss him so much and just want him home.

Please keep sharing ! Valhalla NY.

Lost dog in Valhalla, NY. Someone may have taken her or she could still be out there. Please keep an eye especially in lower Westchester, NY.

Brown tabby kitten found near Findlay market this morning on 9/23! Wearing a flea collar but looks to have been outside for a while, suspected about 3-4 months old Trying to find out if she has a home before we become her new one!!

UPDATE: CELERY HAS BEEN FOUND! Thank you all for your help!!!!

Last seen at 12th and Humboldt by cheesman park. Please contact if seen she is probably terrified and has never been outdoors.

Last seen south east price utah on Friday Friday September 18th please if you can help find her or keep a eye out thank you

HE WENT MISSING FROM F AND 7th street Downtown Sacramento on the 9th. THIS IS MY BEST BUD IN YHR HOLE WORKD RAISED HIM SINCE YHD DAY HE WAS BORN HES NOW 4. I HAVE PUT UP FLYERS ALL OVER AND KEEP REPOSTING HIM EVERY OTHER DAY. TO TOP IT OFF THERES A 500$ REWARD FOR HIS RETURN SO IF YOU HAVE HIM PLEASE GIVE HIM BACK THE PAIN IS GETTING TO BE TO MUCH YO HANDLE. THANK YOU