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Need to rehome your pet?
We know times are tough, and want to help! Please contact us if you just need help with food or something else to keep your pet. 318-741-8499
Being over capacity means we often don't have kennels for healthy strays or owner surrender animals. If you are looking to rehome your animal, please use the direct link to the right. This will allow you to quickly and easily create a listing, and credits Bossier City Animal Services with the referral.
- Operates an animal shelter and adoption programs, to protect and find homes for unwanted companion animals.
- Enforces ordinances, such as leash law, cruelty and neglect, laws governing vaccinations and general companion animal welfare.
- Educates the public, to make citizens aware of animal welfare problems, and ways to solve them.
Protection
Animal Protection Officers protect:
- People and property from the dangers and nuisance of roaming, uncontrolled animals.
- Loose pets and unwanted companion animals from the dangers they face in the wild and on city streets.
Department Actions
Some of the actions that Animal Services perform include:
- Cruelty Investigations: Animal Services personnel enforce laws governing humane treatment of animals. If necessary, they may remove animals from unsafe or unhealthy conditions and begin legal action against negligent owners.
- Complaint Investigations: Animal Services personnel may look into complaints of noisy, destructive or threatening animals. If necessary, proper legal action may be taken including citations, fines and impoundment.
- Animal Rescue: Animal Services personnel use their special knowledge and equipment to help find and rescue lost or trapped animals.
- Animal "Ambulance": Animal Services personnel may transport injured animals, as appropriate, safely and humanely to health care facilities when found on city streets or when removed from a neglect or cruelty situation.
- Animal Quarantine: Animals that bite are located and quarantined to make certain they are not carrying any disease.
For animals found in Bossier City: please call the shelter at 318-741-8499 prior to bringing the animal to the building due to the high volume of animals being surrendered. We often do NOT have any kennel space available and need to create space prior to bringing in new animals.
Stray or Feral Cats: Bossier City Animal Services recognizes that stray and feral cats can be distressing and a nuisance to some citizens. Cats allowed outside are supposed to be spayed or neutered. There are feral colonies around the city, and those cats also need to be spayed and neutered so they don't reproduce. We would like to work with citizens to resolve issues involving loose, stray and feral cats. Please contact us at 318-741-8499 and speak with our intake coordinator to find out how and when cats can be trapped and brought in and how best to handle feral colonies in your area. Removing feral and loose cats from a colony is not the proper way to handle this, and will invite new cats instead of getting rid of the problem. The best way to handle a feral colony is to spay/neuter and tip the ear of any cat associated with the colony, and return the cat so as to not leave an opening for new unaltered cats. Eventually the colony will die out on its own.
If you or someone you know can foster and hold a found animal: Contact our intake coordinator at 318-741-8499 and tell us that you have found an animal that you would like to foster. That is best for the animal and leaves kennel space available for another animal to come in. We provide vaccinations and general care as needed for fosters, including food, treats and a kennel if needed. We ask that after the three day stray hold period, the animal be brought in regularly for viewing (on weekends at least), and made available for visits when requested. All fosters are either on a stray hold, or the property of Bossier City and any adoptions or change of location of the animal must be approved and processed by Bossier City Animal Services.