This bulletin board features just a few of the many animals successfully adopted through the county’s animal shelter. WEATHER NOTICE: The Chatham County Animal Shelter will be CLOSED on Saturday, January 30, due to the forecasted wintry weather. The Animal Shelter plans to resume regular hours on Monday, February 1, at this time.
Animal emergencies may be reported to Chatham County Communications at 542-2911.
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The Animal Control Office is part of the Chatham County Public Health Department.
Please assure that your pet receives proper veterinary care, including the one year and three year rabies vaccinations when they are due. Talk to your veterinarian.
New Animal Control Shelter Hours
Starting on Monday, November 2nd, the Animal Control Shelter hours will be the following:
- Monday through Friday, 11 am until 4 pm.
- Saturday, 10 am until 2 pm. Adoptions only. No animal drop offs.
Click here for the newspaper article on volunteer animal cruelty investigators that recently appeared in the Chatham News.
Click here to learn how to prepare your pets for a disaster.
MISSION: To make available these services to everyone in Chatham County:
- Provide comprehensive and humane animal control and sheltering services to everyone in Chatham County, using ‘best practices'.
- Protect the public against rabies and other animal-related diseases, dangerous and vicious dogs, and damage and loss caused by dogs and cats
- Protect animals from neglect and abuse
- Provide free pickup and impoundment of stray and surrendered dogs and cats
- Provide humane sheltering, adoption, rescue and euthanasia programs for impounded dogs and cats
- Provide emergency and disaster response for animals
- Provide educational programs for the public.
MAJOR SERVICES & PROGRAMS:
- Dog and cat bite management
- Wildlife rabies incident investigation and follow-through
- Free pickup of stray and homeless dogs and cats
- Quarterly low-cost rabies vaccination clinics
- Protection against “dangerous” and “vicious” dogs, based on reports
- Animal nuisance investigation and reduction
- Investigation and remediation of neglect and abuse
- Humane sheltering of homeless and other dogs and cats
- Animal adoption and rescue programs, including partnerships with community rescue and adoption groups
- Humane euthanasia when necessary
- Veterinary care for shelter animals through contracted services
- After-hours emergency response
- Animal disaster response (natural and man-made disasters)
- Educational programs for school-aged children and the general public on animal care, the need for spaying and neutering, and related topics
SHELTER LOCATION: 725 County Landfill Road, west of Pittsboro off of US 64
SHELTER HOURS: Shelter open to the public from noon to 5 pm, Monday through Friday and 10 am to 2 pm on Saturday
PHONE: Shelter phone, 919-542-7203; Director’s phone, 919-542-3881
MAILING ADDRESS: Animal Control, Chatham County Health Department, P. O. Box 130, Pittsboro, NC 27312
DIRECTOR: John Sauls
EMAIL: john.sauls@chathamnc.org
I cannot receive and process animal control calls for service by way of email. Please call 542-7203 for service. You may ask for me or give your request or complaint to the person who answers the phone. We have three phone lines and we try very hard to answer every call that comes in “in person”. If you are switched to voicemail and leave a message, we will call you back asap. Or call back in five minutes.
“E-mail correspondence to and from this address is subject to the North Carolina Public Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties.”
SPAY/NEUTER PROGRAM
IMPORTANT LINKS:
ABOUT COYOTES:
HEALTH DEPARTMENT OFFERS WEB-BASED CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEY
The Chatham County Public Health Department wants to hear from you! The health department now has a customer satisfaction survey available online. Click here to give us feedback.
Last updated date: 1/29/2010 3:53:24 PM