My name is Deborah Welsh, President and avid pet lover. I created AWOLPET.com to make it easier to reunite lost and found pets with their owners quickly.

Each year, animal shelters take in millions of lost pets. Unfortunately, many of them never leave the shelter. Millions more roam neighborhoods looking for their home. I wanted to do something about this sad and troubling situation. As a Veterinarian's daughter and life time pet owner, I know a pet is part of the family. Using the power and access of the Internet, I created a system that matched a registered pet's rabies tag or other pet identifier with its owner's information. The AWOLPET.com system provides a way to quickly and easily reunite lost pets with their owners twenty four hours a day, seven days a week. AWOLPET.com is there when the clinics and shelters are closed.

Growing up my dad stressed the importance of having pets wear their rabies tags. With almost six decades of veterinary experience, he knew the success rate for reuniting a pet with its owner increased significantly if the pet had on its rabies tag or other pet identification.

AWOLPET.com is the first web-based pet protection and registration system to use search engines to match the pet's rabies tag, license tag, microchip and tattoo with the pet owner information. The site provides around the clock access to Veterinarians, animal shelters, finders of lost pets and pet owners. The importance of having pet owners protect their pets through proper identification and registering those identifiers is what AWOLPET.com is all about - getting pets home quickly and safely.

In 2001, AWOLPET.com developed the first "one tag" system. Veterinarians across the country are distributing rabies tags that have the veterinarian's information on the front and an alert to AWOLPET.com on the back. This "one tag" system further increases the likelihood that pet owners will make sure their pets wear their rabies tags and register their pets for protection. AWOLPET.com continues to find creative and helpful ways to make an impact on the lost pet problem. Help us in our mission.

I dedicate AWOLPET.com to the loving memory of my dad and tireless veterinarian who died at the age of 85 this past December 2006. He worked all day in the vet clinic helping animals before he passed.