In a new parliamentary question, MP Claire Delcourt of the Luxembourg Socialist Workers' Party (LSAP) has returned to the issue of missing pets, after raising similar concerns with the government in 2025.
Back then, Delcourt's parliamentary question received the response that the police were primarily responsible for the safety of people, and the Grand Ducal Fire and Rescue Corps (CGDIS) for their rescue.
Any intervention in connection with a missing animal would therefore only come into play in exceptional cases, in particular where there was a concrete danger stemming from the animal. According to MP Claire Delcourt, that leaves a situation in which "many affected people are left without clear guidance or support".
Even though the police are not formally responsible in these cases, missing animals are regularly reported to them all the same. When that happens, officers refer members of the public to associations such as Sichhënn ('search dogs'), which are active in the field, according to the new response from Home Affairs Minister Léon Gloden and Agriculture Minister Martine Hansen.
Over the past five years, a total of 1,667 missing animals have been reported to police, the ministers explained in their parliamentary response. In the first seven months of this year alone, there were already 217 cases. Calls to 112, however, are not recorded, they added.
There is currently no national strategy or coordinated approach in the area of missing pets. The ministers stress in that context that "a number of existing actors" are already active in the field, meaning that owners can turn to "various points of contact" for support in searching for their pet or in identifying a lost animal.
