Lost pet & animal search · South Okanagan
When a pet goes missing,get eyes in the sky.
The first hours are the hardest, and the worst of it is feeling like there's nothing you can do. Kendal Ventures flies a calm visual search over open and rural land, in daylight and into the evening, covering ground a search party on foot can't, in a fraction of the time, and flags anything that looks like your animal for you to go to. It's another set of eyes when you need them most.
- Dogs & cats
- Horses & livestock
- Strays on rural land
- Day & evening · open terrain
How it works
You call, and we get eyes over the search area.
It's simple, and it moves fast, because when an animal is out, the clock is what matters. You call Kendal Ventures and tell us where your pet was last seen and what the land is like. We bring a drone up over the search area (your own property, and neighbouring land where we have the owner's permission) and give you a live downward view and clear stills as we go. You watch with us and help direct where to look, because you know your animal and the lay of the land better than anyone. From above, we can sweep open ground in minutes that would take a search party on foot the better part of a day, so the places your pet is likely to be get covered quickly, while the trail is still fresh.
Where it works best, and the honest limits
Open ground, where an animal can be seen from above.
An aerial search earns its keep where there's open sightline and room to cover. It does have real limits, and we'd rather you hear them up front than be let down.
It works best over open fields, orchards, acreage, rural edges, and large yards, anywhere an animal is visible from above. Pasture, field margins, fence lines, sparse bush, and the open corners of a property are exactly the kind of ground a drone covers quickly and a person on foot covers slowly. If your pet tends to head for open country, this is where the view from the air pays off most.
It is not a search of dense bush or thick tree canopy. This is a visual search: searches run in daylight and into the evening, where the aircraft's mounted spotlight lets us keep looking after the sun drops. The spotlight is a light, not a sensor, so what we find is what we can see, and where an animal is tucked in tight under heavy cover the view from above thins out fast. Thermal and heat detection are on our roadmap once we add the thermal camera, but that is not a capability we offer today, and we won't pretend otherwise.
What to expect
Honest about what a flight can, and can't, do.
We want you to call with clear eyes, not false hope. Here's the straight version.
No honest search can promise a find, and we don't. What we can promise is that we get up fast, cover open ground quickly, and share what we see as we see it. A flight is at its best in open terrain with a clear sightline, and even then, an animal can be hidden, moving, or somewhere we simply can't get a clear look. We'll tell you honestly, before we fly, whether the land and the conditions give a search a fair chance of helping.
Think of this as aerial search assistance: another fast set of eyes that works alongside everything else you're already doing. It does not replace your own ground search, your neighbours knocking on doors, calls to local shelters and rescues, or animal control and the proper authorities. Keep all of that going. We're one more tool in the search, used early while the hours still count, not a substitute for any of it.
Also for livestock & strays
Out on rural land, too: herds, strays, and fence lines.
If you run cattle or horses, or you're out on acreage and a stray has turned up or wandered off, the same view from above does the rounds across the whole spread, finding strays in the open and broken ground, locating the herd, and walking the fence line for the gate or the down stretch that let an animal out in the first place.
When the hours count
A pet is missing. Let's get eyes in the sky.
Call and tell us where your animal was last seen and what the land is like, and we'll tell you honestly whether a flight over open ground is likely to help. We fly with your permission, best in open terrain, with no guarantee of a find, alongside the ground search you keep going.
Every inquiry gets a reply within one business day.