Find animal shelter services.
In California, 52 county departments, 5 public authorities and 1 city government publish 60 official links for this service. Reviewed requirements cover availability notices (10), documents (3), appointments (2) and eligibility (1). 58 counties have a page for it below.
58 guides with reviewed service links · Reviewed local guides
Highlighted counties have a reviewed service guide matching this selection. An agency may serve only a city or part of a county.
U.S. Census boundaries via U.S. Atlas · 2017 edition, simplified for display.
Showing 58 guides as a short list. Choose your county or type a city above to see each guide’s instructions, conditions and sources here.
Official animal care/control provider associated with Alameda County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Animal services
Ask the Sheriff about an impounded animal’s placement, required redemption fees or adoption application. The code does not identify a current public intake facility.
Official information checked October 26, 2026 · Details & sources
The planning report says Alpine has no brick-and-mortar animal shelter. Its Douglas County Fairgrounds references concern previous fires.
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Official animal care/control provider associated with Amador County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Butte County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Calaveras County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Colusa County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Contra Costa County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Del Norte County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with El Dorado County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →County Public Health animal-services program and its linked Fresno Humane shelter referral; this does not make the contractor a county-owned department.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Glenn County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
The county says feral cats will not be impounded and domestic cats are taken only when space is available. Contact Tehama Animal Care Center before transport.
Official information checked October 26, 2026 · Details & sources
Official animal care/control provider associated with Humboldt County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Imperial County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: The Animal Care and Control Program (ACCP) serves Imperial County’s unincorporated areas—over 4,000 square miles of towns, desert, and farmland—with 24/7 rescue and control services. Our shelter is full of lovable pets ready for a second chance!
Official animal care/control provider associated with Inyo County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Kern County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Kings County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: Kings County Animal Services – Animal Services division under the Kings County Sheriff’s Office - houses animals from the unincorporated parts of Kings County and Hanford City. Field Services is responsible for responding to animal calls in the unincorporated areas of the county. Types of calls Animal Services responds to include bite cases, restraint issues, animals running at large, welfare checks (neglect, cruelty cases, animal abuse).
Official animal care/control provider associated with Lake County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Lassen County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Los Angeles County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Madera County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →MGSA manages the Marin Humane contract with the County and cities/towns. Marin Humane is the actual care/control provider.
MGSA manages the Marin Humane animal care/control contract with the county and cities/towns. Marin Humane publishes the admission conditions.
Official information checked October 26, 2026 · Details & sources
Official animal care/control provider associated with Mariposa County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Mendocino County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Merced County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Current county staff-directory contact and official animal-control complaint portal only; no shelter facility, adoption, pet-license workflow or visit hours is verified.
The Animal Control unit provides service to all areas within Modoc County. The Department of Animal Control is responsible for enforcing county codes regarding compliance with vaccinations and pet licensing within Modoc County. The Animal Control Officer works in conjunction with Modoc's Environmental Health Department which issues pet license. The officer focuses on abandoned, stranded, victimized animals at large in Modoc County. Shelter for these animals makes the community safer, and in many cases provides a loving home through High Plateau Humane Society for the animals that are not claimed. California Food and Agriculture Code Section §31108 requires extended holding periods for stray, feral, and relinquished pets. The law allows more time for animal adoption and the results are subsequently, overcrowding at shelters. Modoc residents can help reduce animal overpopulation by spaying or neutering pets. All animals adopted from shelters must be spayed or neutered. Effective January 1, 2000, the law requires an owner whose animals are impounded to pay fines. Additional fees will be charged if the animals are not spayed or neutered. For the current list of fees please see the Fee Schedule (PDF).
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HPHS does not take owner-surrendered dogs. Healthy friendly cats are accepted first-come when possible, with a waiting list when full; owners must care for them until an opening.
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Official animal care/control provider associated with Mono County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Monterey County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Napa County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Nevada County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Orange County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Placer County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Plumas County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Riverside County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Sacramento County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →City of Hollister provider. The source separately limits owner surrenders and after-hours stray intake to animals residing/found in San Benito County; this does not establish every city’s field response or licensing boundaries.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with San Bernardino County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: San Bernardino County Animal Care is an animal welfare agency that operates the Big Bear and Devore Animal Shelters to provide programs and services to all unincorporated areas of San Bernardino County, and the cities of Big Bear Lake, Highland, and Yucaipa. If you live outside of our service areas, please check our list of other animal care agencies that provide service in the County.
Official animal care/control provider associated with San Diego County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: We serve the unincorporated areas of San Diego County.
Official animal care/control provider associated with San Francisco County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →County Sheriff animal services handles county responsibilities; the county explicitly contracts with the City of Stockton for dog/cat sheltering and does not operate its own shelter.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with San Luis Obispo County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: The Animal Services Division is responsible for providing animal care and control services throughout the County of San Luis Obispo and within each of the seven incorporated communities. Animal Services staff serve the community by helping to identify solutions to animal related problems, enforcing local ordinances and state laws relating to animals, providing humane education programs, and performing rabies control and surveillance. The Division also operates the only open-intake animal shelter in the county.
County Health administers the program; Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA is the explicitly named private nonprofit contract provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Santa Barbara County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Adoption availability can change throughout the day. An animal shown online may already have an interested adopter or may no longer be available when you arrive.
Official information checked October 26, 2026 · Details & sources
The county lists Lompoc, Goleta and Santa Maria shelters, with winter hours Tuesday–Sunday10a.m.–5p.m., closed Mondays and holidays. Call before travel.
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Try the county's rehoming resources before surrender. Private listings are animals with current guardians; adoption prices are set by those guardians.
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Official animal care/control provider associated with Santa Clara County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: Our mission is to offer shelter and care for homeless domestic and farm animals, reunite lost pets with their families, facilitate pet adoption, and investigate complaints of animal cruelty and neglect in the community to improve the lives of people and animals in the County. We provide all services to the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County and sheltering services to the cities of Morgan Hill, Gilroy and Sunnyvale. Please join us in our lifesaving mission!
Official animal care/control provider associated with Santa Cruz County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →The Sheriff’s Animal Regulations program serves unincorporated Shasta County. A county-operated animal shelter or dog-license workflow is not established by this page.
General owner-surrender dogs and large animals are not accepted. Cats and small animals have limited space; call about pets adopted from Haven.
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Official animal care/control provider associated with Sierra County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Siskiyou County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Solano County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: Solano County Animal Care Division is responsible for the care of all stray, injured, abandoned, and unwanted animals for the seven surrounding cities: Benicia, Dixon, Fairfield, Rio Vista, Suisun City, Vacaville, and Vallejo.
Official animal care/control provider associated with Sonoma County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Actual Stanislaus Animal Services Agency website. Its current legal government parent has not been independently bound to a registry government identity in this review. Temporary adoption promotions are not published as ongoing fees.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Sutter Animal Services Authority is a JPA of Sutter County, Yuba City and Live Oak; the county page states that Yuba City operates the services.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Tehama County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Trinity County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Tulare County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Tuolumne County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Ventura County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
Service area: VCAS provides contract services to the residents of Camarillo, Fillmore, Moorpark, Ojai, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Simi Valley, Ventura, and all unincorporated areas of Ventura County. VCAS is dedicated to improving the lives of the animals in their care, and to safeguard the community through rabies suppression and the sheltering of stray animals.
Actual Yolo County Animal Services provider site. The menu-only county source was not used as service evidence; current operator/legal government binding needs separate reconciliation.
Full guide, contact details & sources →Official animal care/control provider associated with Yuba County for browsing. Service areas can differ between sheltering, field response and licensing; confirm the specific address, species and service with the provider.
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