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Animal Control
The Animal Control Unit of your Public Works Department:
Animal Control means protecting:
Some of the actions that Animal Control perform include:
- Operates an animal shelter and adoption programs, to protect and find homes for unwanted companion animals
- Licenses animals to help identify and aid in the return of lost companion animals
- Enforces ordinances, such as leash law, cruelty and neglect, laws governing vaccinations and companion animal welfare
- Educates the public, to make citizens aware of the animal control problems and ways to solve them
- Animal Control personnel may also use their skills to protect and control wild animals.
Protection
Animal Control means protecting:
- People and property from the dangers and nuisance of roaming uncontrolled animals.
- Pets and wild animals from the dangers they face in the wild and on city streets.
Department Actions
Some of the actions that Animal Control perform include:
- Cruelty Investigations: Animal Control 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 Control 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 Control personnel use their special knowledge and equipment to help find and rescue lost or trapped animals.
- Animal Ambulance: Animal Control personnel transport injured animals safely and humanely to the appropriate health care facility when found on city streets or when taken from a neglect location.
- Animal Quarantine: Animals that bite are located and captured to make certain they are not carrying any disease.
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Kay LaBorde
SupervisorPhone: 318-741-8496
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Animal Control
Physical Address
3217 Old Shed Road
Bossier City, LA 71111
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 5337
Bossier City, LA 71171-5337
Phone: 318-741-8499Fax: 318-741-8494
Hours
Monday - Friday
8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Adoption Hours
Monday - Friday
10 a.m. - 3 p.m.
After Hours Emergency: 318-741-8610 (Police Department)