Riverside County Department of Animal Services

Riverside County's Homeless Animals Awareness- Green Ribbon Month

Our Homeless Animals Need You!!

Cat and dog over population continues to be a significant problem within Riverside County. In 2009, 52,645 animals came through our county shelters.

The Department of Animal Services is asking you to promote awareness by spaying and neutering, micro-chipping, adopting into "life-long' homes and volunteering at your local animal shelter.

Poster Contest!! 1st - 2nd - 3rd place prizes

Special Adoption Events

...they depend on us to make good decisions for them!

"Be the Solution, Not the Cause!"

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Animal Services Offers Special Adoption Rate

Temporary Offer for Some Animals: Dogs for $20, Cats for $15

RIVERSIDE, July 19, 2010 – The Department of Animal Services is now offering a special adoption rate for homeless pets that have reached a seventh day of availability.

The special temporary rate – $20 for dogs and $15 for cats – applies to those stray pets that have been at the shelter at least seven days without being adopted. The fee includes spay & neuter surgeries, vaccinations and microchip.

Shots & Microchips Offered Every Third Saturday at New Shelter

The Department of Animal Services is offering low-cost vaccinations and microchipping on the third Saturday of every month at the new Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter.

The shelter is located at 6851 Van Buren Blvd., Riverside, Calif. 92509 – where Clay Street intersects with Van Buren Boulevard, just north of the Santa Ana River.

New Shelter Readies for Grand Opening/Adopt-a-Thon

Celebration Includes Homeless Pets at Special Rates

Tuesday, May 4, 2010, RIVERSIDE – Approximately 2,852 paws will greet the public during Animal Services’ new shelter Grand Opening/”Adopt-a-Thon” Celebration on Saturday, May 8th.

With more than 67,000 square feet of structures and kennels on a 12-acre site, the Western Riverside County/City Animal Shelter is now one of the biggest in Southern California.

On Saturday, the celebration includes free hot dogs, animal-shaped jumpers for the kids, live music, and, most importantly, more than 700 animals ready for adoption into lifelong, loving homes.

Every adopted animal goes home nice and fresh, thanks to Four Paws Inn of Banning. Four Paws Inn is sending its mobile grooming team out to spruce up all the adopted pets at no extra charge to the adopting families. And, while the parents – or fellow family members – of such pets are waiting for that free grooming, they can get their own ’do coifed by a friendly John Paul Mitchell professional hair stylist. It’ll be like a Groom-a-Palooza of sorts.