Lost animals often wander onto farms in FarmVille. This gives the farmer the choice to either help the animal or turn it away. If a farmer chooses not to help the animal, a notification will be sent to the farmer's neighbor. They have the chance to adopt the animal onto their farm. Contrary to many other claimable items, a lost animal can be adopted by everyone who stumbles upon it on a wall: even when they are not a neighbor of the farmer who sent it along. There are several different animals that find themselves lost and lonely.