Los Angeles Animal Services promotes and protects the health, safety and welfare of animals and people.

City Wide Cat Program

Learn how to help community cats lead healthier lives.

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LA Animal Services has alternative solutions to surrendering your pet.

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Animal Care

LA Animal Services offers support for pets, wildlife, and the humans who love them. These are just some of our most popular services.

Upcoming Events

Kitten season is HERE and we need kitten fosters to handle the incoming kitties!

All new fosters that are interested in fostering underage kittens/puppies will need to attend an orientation class!

If you are interested in becoming a bottle baby foster, please email ani.foster@lacity.org to RSVP with the subject line EAST VALLEY Bottle Baby Foster Orientation, and let us know the date you will be attending.

Once you have had orientation on feeding you can foster bottle babies. 

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Kitten season is HERE and we need kitten fosters to handle the incoming kitties!

All new fosters that are interested in fostering underage kittens/puppies will need to attend an orientation class!

If you are interested in becoming a bottle baby foster, please email ani.foster@lacity.org to RSVP with the subject line NORTH CENTRAL Bottle Baby Foster Orientation, and let us know the date you will be attending.

Once you have had orientation on feeding you can foster bottle babies. 

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Your new reading buddy awaits!

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LA Animal Services is encouraging anyone that would like to foster, or has fostered in the past, to attend an orientation this Sunday April 21, 2024 at the West LA Animal Services Center.

There will be three different orientations, so please read carefully below to see which you would like to attend.

Bottle Baby Orientation- 10AM-12PM 

We will be going over how to care for underage kittens  we will have kittens for hands on bottle feeding demonstrations.

Dog Orientation-1PM-2PM

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It takes a community of staff, volunteers and donors to make LA the most humane city in the world.
28,922
+17%
Animals Placed in Homes and with Partner Organizations
15,823
+36%
Public Adoptions
2,547
+46%
Pets Fostered
19,980
Spay/Neuter Surgeries Conducted
No Wrong Door

In support of the Mayor's Office initiative to address homelessness in the City of Los Angeles, the Personnel Department has developed resources that outline the support and assistance that is available to address some of the issues being experienced by the homeless.

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