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Offers affordable spay and neuter services for cats, dogs, and rabbits. Our Love for Pets program provides individuals in under-served neighborhoods with resources to keep their pets, safe, healthy, and in their homes. Our ITRAP program assists individuals and municipalities with trap/neuter/return resources and policies to humanely manage community cat populations.

Animal shelter and adoption services.
Requires residents with dogs and cats 6 months of age or older to have a pet license. Annual pet licenses may be obtained at (515) 223-6220 or www.westpet.org.
Animal welfare services- foster homes, no euthanasia, adoption, education and advocacy.
Seeks to assist all animals in need through a variety of programs including: adoptions, spay and neuter, community outreach, and humane education.
Responsible for all animal control needs and problems within city limits.
Domestic animal services including pet licensing, cattery and kennel licenses, farm animal permit inspections, trapping and hunting, bite investigations, cruelty investigations, enforcement of animal control codes.
Investigates animal cruelty and neglect. Provides shelter for unwanted animals, educational programs, pet facilitated programs, tours, pet cemetery, cremation, and more. Investigates and assists with lost and found animals. The volunteer group promotes animal education, welfare, and adoptions.

Provides an Animal Welfare Intervention Coordinator to assist law enforcement agencies throughout the state. If there is an animal welfare concern outside of the city limits of Des Moines, citizens are encouraged to contact local law enforcement in their community to report first. Citizens can then email or call Animal Welfare Intervention Coordinator for more information and follow up.

Animal welfare services, including animal shelter, adoption program for homeless animals, advocacy for enforcement of county ordinances through the Lancaster County Sheriff's Department, pet therapy programs, development of legislation and ordinances, cremation, euthanasia, presentations to community groups, volunteer and education programs.

Provides a Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) program. Humanely and effectively reducing Des Moines' outdoor community cat population by altering, vaccinating, ear-tipping and returning cats to the areas where they are already living and thriving. The program is free to community cat caregivers in Des Moines.

Financial assistance for dog/cat spay or neutering (when available) and finding temporary or permanent homes for pets.
Supervises Election and Voter Information, Tax Levies, Maps and Census Information, CAFR and Animal Licenses. Also helps residents living in a unincorporated part of Polk County to register their pets and receive an animal license.

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County Government Departments/Offices
Domestic Animal Services
Tax Forms

Provides testing for residential wells and water quality, radon and lead, home/facility and food inspections, and a spay/neuter program for pets, as well as health education. Also manages an injury surveillance and prevention program including instruction on Tai Chi and Yoga.

Visit the website to download the Pet Information Form or Application To Operate a Temporary Food Establishment, or to view the Requirements for Food Establishment Operations.

Categories

Water Well Construction/Maintenance/Abandonment Regulation
Radon Testing
Lead Testing
Restaurant/Food Sanitation Enforcement
Home Sanitation Enforcement
Domestic Animal Services
General Health Education Programs
Provides a safe and humane place for the care of homeless, unwanted, lost, injured and many other animals, while owners are sought.
Offers a special needs, no-kill animal shelter that rescues cats and dogs that are injured, handicapped, have a serious medical condition, abused, pregnant and nursing moms, or orphans that require bottle feeding. All animals are rehabilitated and then put up for adoption.
AKC affiliated dog training club offers training for dogs and owners at several levels, entertainment programs for local groups, educational programs for children on care of dogs, and reduced-rate coupons for classes for dogs adopted from local shelters.
Addresses the root causes of animal homelessness in Lincoln and the surrounding area. Assists pets and their people through a voucher-based low cost spay/neuter program, a temporary assistance pet food bank, a low-cost vaccination clinic, and teaching people about being responsible pet guardians at community events.
Domestic animal services including adoption and city animal control.
A self-choice or drive-through pantry. After becoming registered, neighbors can choose from canned and dry goods, bread, meat, dairy and fresh produce based on availability. Neighbors may also choose to drive-through and receive prepackaged food.
Offers a low-cost clinic offering spay and neuter services to pet owners with a financial hardship that prevents them from altering their animal.

Offers boarding for companion animals at a reasonable cost.

Pet adoptions.

Shelters pets when owners are in a homeless shelter or otherwise temporarily unable to care for them.

Pet food pantry for Douglas and Sarpy County Residents

Animal rescue and re-homing Pet Adoption Center.

After submitting an application, an adoption counselor will review and follow-up with any questions. Typically, applications are processed within a few business days. Please allow at least 2 business days before contacting about the status of application.

Provides shelter for pets during a disaster.
Provides shelter, food, and veterinarian care to stray cats and dogs in Charles City and place them in adoptive homes.