Lost Pet Drone Search in Malibu

Someone answers the phone at (323) 632-1310, any hour, any day.

What to do in the first hours

Start close to home. Do it quietly. Frightened animals hide and often do not come when called. Then use these steps:

1. Search close to home first and quietly.
2. Post where Malibu neighbors will see it. Nextdoor has a Malibu city feed where neighbors post about lost pets.
3. Call or visit the Agoura Animal Care Center, 29525 Agoura Road, Agoura Hills, CA 91301. Phone (818) 991-0071. Open Monday to Saturday, 11:00am to 5:00pm. Animal care and control services in Malibu are provided by the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control under a contract with the City of Malibu.
4. Call Skyecam to arrange a thermal search. Phone (323) 632-1310.

Help me find my cat in Malibu

Research from the Missing Animal Response Network found that 84% of 128 lost outdoor-access cats were found within a five-house radius of their home. It also found that 92% of 158 indoor-only cats who escaped outside were found within a five-house radius.

Frightened cats hide in silence close to home and often do not come when called. A thermal drone search can check nearby brush, canyon ground, and under-deck areas quickly. It works best in the early morning or at night, when the ground is cool.

Help me find my dog in Malibu

Dogs usually travel further than cats. The search area for a lost dog is wider. A drone search from the air can cover more ground than a search on foot.

Lost pet recovery in Malibu

Lost pet recovery is the whole job of getting a missing animal home: working out where it is likely hiding, covering that ground fast, and reaching it before it moves again. Skyecam is the drone half of that work. We fly a thermal camera over the yards, brush and canyon ground around where your pet went missing.

Some owners call a lost pet recovery service directly. Others are already working with a pet detective or a tracking-dog handler and need a drone for ground nobody can walk. Both are normal. Call (323) 632-1310 and say which one you are.

Pet detective in Malibu

A pet detective works the ground: reading the area, setting humane traps, following a scent trail, knocking on doors. A thermal drone covers what they cannot walk. Skyecam takes lost pet recovery work directly from owners, and also flies alongside a pet detective already on a case.

Animal rescue in Malibu — and when to call the shelter instead

If your animal may already have been picked up, the shelter is the first call, not us. The Agoura Animal Care Center takes in found animals from Malibu under the county’s contract with the city. A field search cannot help with an animal that is already in a kennel. Check there first, then call us for the ground nobody has searched.

Searching Malibu

Malibu has canyon ground and thick coastal brush between the houses. That ground is slow to search on foot and quick to cover from the air.

When a thermal search makes sense

A thermal search works best at night and early morning. The ground is cool then, so an animal’s body heat shows more clearly. In midday heat, the ground is warm, and the contrast is poor. A thermal camera cannot see through walls. It will not find an animal inside a building or a car. Searches do not always succeed.