Santa Cruz County Animal Services Authority
Who We Are
Santa Cruz County Animal Services Authority is a full scale animal shelter and animal control facility. We are an open door shelter, which means we accept any domestic animal whether stray or owner surrender.
Adopting a friend
Thank you for considering Santa Cruz County Animal Services in your search for a new companion animal! We regularly adopt out dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, rats, mice, and from time to time we have birds and exotics. The fee to adopt a dog is $110 and cats are $90. This fee includes the spay or neuter of the animal, the first set of vaccinations, microchipping and chip registration, a collar and leash, and a license for dogs. Adopters must be over 18 and renters must provide landlord approval. Please contact a Client Services Representative with any further questions at (831) 454-7303. Thank you again for including our shelter in your search for a new companion animal!
News
As of July 1st, 2007, we have new open hours and many of our fees have changed. The Scotts Valley branch is now open Tuesday-Sunday from 10am-5:30pm with animal viewing and adoption hours from noon-5:30pm and will be closed on Mondays. Our Watsonville branch is closed on Sundays with the same business and animal viewing hours Monday-Saturday.
Call for more information on which fee increases may affect you.
Spay and Neuter those Pets! Free!
The Friends of Santa Cruz County Animals (FOSCCA) finally has a free spay/neuter program in place for low income County residents! Bring proof of income and proof of residency within the County to either branch of the shelter and we'll give you a voucher that will cover the entire cost of spaying or neutering your dog, cat, or rabbit. Give your companion animal all the health benefits of being altered and help put us (part way) out of business. (Not to mention that the County of Santa Cruz has a mandatory spay/neuter ordinance in effect that requires that all dogs and cats over the age of 6 months must be spayed or neutered.) Spay or neuter today.
A microchip is your animal's ticket home.
A microchip is a small chip the size of a grain of rice which is implanted under the skin between the shoulder blades. Time and again, we see animals that have lost their collars and/or tags, animals that could have been safely and quickly reunited with their owners if they'd had a microchip. A microchip is not GPS but a permanent form of ID, a dog or cat's personal bar code that can be scanned by a shelter or vet clinic and then linked to the chip manufacturer's national database that will have your contact information on file. Both the Scotts Valley and Watsonville branches of the shelter will microchip your dog or cat AND register the microchip for $15. This is a steal, folks! No appointment necessary. Just drop in during our open hours.
Come Visit Us!
For a complete list of the stray and adoptable animals in our shelter please visit our online shelter.
Also visit our Watsonville sister shelter's Petfinder page.
Santa Cruz County Animal Services
27 Janis Way
Scotts Valley, CA 95066
Phone: (831)454-7303
Email:
jennifur001@comcast.net
Click here for a list of pets at this shelter
Map to our shelter
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