A SOCIAL media site, dubbed Facebark, which helps dog owners find their lost pets, has won a national award from the RSPCA.
Middlesbrough Council’s Dog Warden Service set up a page on Facebook earlier this year where it posts pictures of dogs that have been found.
It also shares photos of animals it wants to rehouse, as well as using the site to send out messages about microchipping pets.
The page – thought to be the first of its kind in the UK and dubbed Facebark by council bosses – has won one of the RSPCA’s Community Animal Welfare Footprints (CAWF) Innovator Awards.
The judges praised the entry as an example of a simple but extremely effective and well-managed idea.
The page now has more than 1,400 followers, with around 20,000 hits every month, and has helped to reunite and rehouse many dogs.
