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No-kill shelter that provides a safe environment for animals in transition. The society serves as an advocate for animals and their companion people, works to end animal overpopulation, and educates the public about compassion and responsibility towards all animals.
Services
Animal Shelters
Animal Adoption
Volunteer Opportunities
Provides a variety of enforcement, educational, and animal disposition services including:
- Dog licensing.
- Cruelty and complaint investigation.
- Pet care presentations.
- Animal adoptions.
For situations in which an animal's welfare may be in jeopardy (such as animal abuse, neglect, injury, or endangerment) or where public health or safety may be impacted (such as a bite, attack, or harassment of a person by an animal), contact the office to report what was seen or heard. An Animal Control Officer will be dispatched to investigate the situation.
Citizens for Animal Rescue and Adoption (CARA) is a no-kill shelter and rescue for homeless, injured, neglected, or surrendered animals. Provides care and rehabilitation for the animals housed at the shelter.
Services include:
- Animal adoptions.
- Low cost spay and neuter program.
Services
Animal Shelters
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Adoption
Neuter/Spay Services
A no-kill facility. Primary goals are to reduce pet overpopulation and find forever loving homes for the sick, injured, abused, neglected, and abandoned animals in Decatur and Macon County that come into the facility.
Offers discount spay/neuter program year round to low income, unemployed pet owners, senior citizens, and qualifying persons in need.
TNR (Trap-Neuter-Return) program for feral cats helps to reduce cat overpopulation.
Services
Animal Shelters
Neuter/Spay Services
Animal Adoption
- Helps find homes for adoptable animals.
- Helps enforce and prosecute animal abuse.
- No animal is ever turned away from the shelter regardless of health, age, breed, or temperament.
All pets for adoption:
- Will be spayed/neutered before leaving the shelter.
- Are current on all age appropriate vaccines.
- Microchipped and tested for heartworms (dogs) or FELV (cats).
Macon County Animal Control has a veterinarian on staff.
Services
Cruelty to Animals Investigation
Animal Control
Animal Adoption
Animal Shelters
- Animal rescue and re-homing.
- Pet Adoption Center.
Services
Animal Adoption
Animal Shelters
Responsible for the enforcement of the state statutes governing rabies control in domestic companion animals. Also enforces the County’s ordinance that prohibits dogs from running at large in unincorporated, residential areas.
Services
Animal Control
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Adoption
A no-kill animal shelter that provides shelter, care, and suitable homes for animals when possible. Other programs include:
- Animal Assisted Therapy: brings pets to residents of nursing facilities, assisted living, Alzheimer's Centers, and residential disability centers.
- Dog Bite Prevention Education: visits schools and other groups to teach children the basics of animal behavior and how to avoid getting bitten by dogs and cats.
- Continuing Care: provides shelter and care for pets if their owners become unavailable to care for them.
- Arm Chair Adoptions: Individuals who are unable to care for a pet in their home can "adopt" a pet that lives at the animal shelter, and the individual receives letters and photos of their pet.
Services
Animal Shelters
Animal Adoption
Volunteer Opportunities
Pet Assisted Therapy
No-kill shelter that cares for up to 30 dogs and 60 cats at any given time.
Services
Volunteer Opportunities
Animal Adoption
Animal Shelters
Adoption of animals available at the shelter, including those that have been rescued or surrendered.
Adoption program for dogs and cats.
Services
Animal Adoption
Jefferson County Animal Control is a county department providing the following services:
- Controlling animals running at large (dogs and cats).
- Protecting the public from dangerous or vicious animals.
- Conducting wellbeing checks including instances of possible neglect, abandonment, and abuse.
- Picking up stray, unwanted, and feral animals running at-large.
- Assisting hospitals with animal bites in order to prevent rabies.
- Removing trapped animals for citizens (domestic or wild).
- Providing shelter for the pets of citizens experiencing emergency situations (i.e., fire, flood, etc.).
- Helping lost pets find their way home.
- Providing all services to all villages in the county to prevent animals from running at-large, except in those locations where the leash law does not apply.
- Working with the State Inspector (ie, chickens and livestock complaints).
- Providing a county-funded animal shelter.
Services
Animal Shelters
Animal Adoption
Animal Control
Provides control of companion animal issues.
Common services include:
- Animals running at large.
- Lost or stray animals.
- Feral cat colonies.
- Dog bites.
- Adoptions and various other animal control issues.
Services
Animal Control
Animal Adoption
Animal Shelters
Services:
- Animal Cruelty investigations on animals residing within the city limits of Aurora.
- Barking dog complaints.
- Investigation of animal bites.
- Provide pet adoptions of pets housed at the facility.
- Removal of road killed animals from the streets of Aurora.
- Removal of stray cats or dogs within city limits.
- Talks to groups about being safe around animals, responsible pet ownership and proper pet care.
Services
Animal Adoption
Cruelty to Animals Investigation
Animal Control
- Provides temporary refuge for lost, stray, or unwanted animals.
- Facilitates adoptions of animals to new owners.
- Offers a variety of behavior training courses, fear free training, and pet education classes for pet owners.
The Foster Program offers animals a temporary home for animals waiting on a forever home.
Types of animals in the program:
- Short-Term Animal Refuge (STAR).
- All-Star Dogs, dogs that are in the behavior program.
- Dogs and Puppies.
- Cats and Kittens.
- Parrots and Other Pet Birds.
- Rabbits, Hamsters, and Gerbils.
Services
Animal Shelters
Foster Care/Temporary Shelter for Animals
Animal Rescue
Animal Adoption
Non-profit, no-kill shelter with cats and dogs. Also provides low-cost spay and neuter services for pets, as well as vaccination services.
Services
Neuter/Spay Services
Animal Adoption
Animal Shelters
Following services are provided:
- Homeless animal shelter.
- Animal adoption.
- Low-cost veterinary care.
- Free pet food pantry.
- Low cost spay/neuter.
Services
Animal Shelters
Animal Adoption
Pet Food
Well Animal Checkups
Animal Food/Supplies Donation Programs
Neuter/Spay Services
Volunteer Opportunities
Promotes the humane treatment of hooved animals through education, legislation, investigation and, if necessary, legal intervention (impoundment). Also provides physical rehabilitation to animals that have endured severe neglect and abuse and then facilitates adoption to compassionate homes. Animals targeted are: horses, sheep, goats, llamas, and pot-belly pigs.
Services
Animal Rescue
Cruelty to Animals Investigation
Animal Adoption
Volunteer Opportunities
Non-profit, no-kill animal rescue and shelter. Also provides spay and neuter services for owned dogs/cats on Wednesdays. In addition, the shelter provides vaccinations for owned dogs/ cats at different locations around the county for the convenience of pet owners.
Services
Neuter/Spay Services
Animal Rescue
Animal Adoption
Animal Shelters
Dog rescue devoted to saving canines in need. Programs include adoption program, foster program, and home to home program, as well as humane investigation (abuse and neglect of dogs). All of the dogs are in foster homes and people must make an appointment and complete the adoption application before adopting. To view available dogs, see the website.
Services
Animal Adoption
Volunteer Opportunities
Foster Care/Temporary Shelter for Animals
Cruelty to Animals Investigation
Animal Rescue
Services include:
- Pet registration.
- Lost/found dog program.
- Adoption program: Dogs that haven't been claimed after their allotted time in the shelter will be evaluated for adoption eligibility.
- Investigates bite incidents: Call animal control in the event there is a bite victim.
- Rabies vaccination for pets.
- Low cost spay/neuter program.
Services
Animal Shelters
Animal Adoption
Animal Control
Neuter/Spay Services
Lee County Animal Control offers the following services:
- Rabies control.
- Emergency medical care for injured animals.
- Animal bite reporting and investigation.
- Tagging and registration.
- Animal shelter facility and adoption program.
Services
Animal Shelters
Animal Control
Animal Adoption
- Provides temporary refuge for lost, stray, or unwanted animals.
- Facilitates adoptions of animals to new owners.
- Offers a variety of behavior training courses, fear free training, and pet education classes for pet owners.
The Foster Program offers animals a temporary home for animals waiting on a forever home.
Types of animals in the program:
- Short-Term Animal Refuge (STAR).
- All-Star Dogs, dogs that are in the behavior program.
- Dogs and Puppies.
- Cats and Kittens.
- Parrots and Other Pet Birds.
- Rabbits, Hamsters, and Gerbils.
Services
Animal Shelters
Foster Care/Temporary Shelter for Animals
Animal Rescue
Animal Adoption
Animal Control is responsible for administering the inoculation of dogs/cats against rabies and issuing inoculation tags for each dog/cat owned and or housed within the county, handling calls for service concerning all animal bites, animal welfare, and problems relating to invasive dogs/cats throughout the county, and handling stray dogs/cats in the unincorporated part of the county.
Services
Animal Control
Animal Shelters
Animal Adoption
- Provides various veterinary services, from vaccinations and wellness care to surgery and diagnostic services.
- Houses city and county stray dogs and cats and offers an adoption program for them.
Please see the website for their services and animals available for adoption.
Services
Well Animal Checkups
Animal Adoption