How do I use Find my ipad if I haven't set up an icloud account

I can't find my iPad. I know that I have "find my ipad" enabled on my device but I don't have an iCloud account and looking at Apple support, that appears to preclude me from using the "Find My iPad" app. Any way around this?
Thanks.

This article contains a couple of other options as well. You can ask the person that found it to email you as well. I'm not sure that you can do that once the iPad is locked but take a look here.
http://www.imore.com/find-lost-stolen-ipad
It certainly can't hurt to call the police that's for sure. I'm not sure what they can do, but I would give it a try. If they can't do anything, you will want to consider changing all of the private information that the thief could have access to on the iPad - like your email addresses, credit cards - things like that.
Start with the police and see what they say. Good luck!

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Sign into your iCloud account.
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Create a new iCloud account.
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Settings > iCloud and turn everything on.
BAM!
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