Promoting animal kindness within our community with a positive and safe impact.

The Animal Services Department is responsible for protecting both the public and animals’ health and safety through the enforcement of county codes and rules and regulations; to promote and enforce the law, ordinances and regulations pertaining to Animal Control; to promote pet ownership and kindness to animals; instill in the public through education and by example, respect and compassion for animals; and, to protect the interest of animals, owners, and non-owners alike in such a way that the pet ownership is a simultaneous benefit to the owners and to pets without becoming a burden on the community.