THE NUMBERS ARE IN!We are excited to share our progress so far for 2019. Check out our Mid-Year Report linked below. Thank you to our community for your ongoing support!Visit our Stats Page for more information on how data included is calculated.

As the 4th of July rapidly approaches, OC Animal Care would like to remind our community pet owners about some safety tips to keep in mind during this holiday. Loud noises from fireworks and other celebrations can cause our pets to become very frightened and lose control. It is important to pay extra attention to the safety and comfort of their pets before, during and after any 4th of July celebrations. In the event your pet does manage to escape, check your animal care center and the shelters in the surrounding areas. Remember your pet was frightened and may have fled beyond its normal, familiar territory. July 5th is the busiest day of the year at animal shelters nationwide and we want to ensure that your furry friends do not become a statistic. Share this information to help pets in your area! read more

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Pet Tag Awareness Month at OC Animal Care was a huge success! During our month-long promotion throughout June, we encouraged community members to make sure their pets are properly tagged with up-to-date information. In 2016, only 9% of the 17,389 animals impounded at OC Animal Care had some form of proper identification (i.e. Pet License, Microchip, Name Tag). Every Saturday in June we offered Free Pet Tags to help identify local pets -- for the entire duration of the event we made 302 pet tags! (That’s over 78 more than last year’s total of 215!) Thank you to our wonderful staff and volunteers for making sure that these pets have proper ID! Remember: Proper identification can be your pet’s ticket home!

OC Animal Care’s Movie Magic Pet Fair 2019 was a star-studded success! 72 of our shelter animals found their fur-ever homes (43 cats, 22 dogs, 4 exotics, and 3 rabbits) on Saturday June 29th! Our new location featured booths hosting local animal rescues and pet vendors in our community. We had wonderful pet demonstrations by Courteous Canines and Teens4Training, featuring positive reinforcement training. The OC Zoo brought in beautiful, exotic animals and taught audiences about wildlife. Adoptable dogs were showcased in the kennels’ “VIP room”, creatively decorated by kennel staff, and we had a cavalcade of kittens in a community room. Kona Shaved Ice, Drizzle Funnel Cakes, and Piaggio on Wheels provided food and tasty treats throughout the day! Many thanks to the staff and volunteers that helped make this event a success, as well as everyone within our community that stopped by and chose to adopt a shelter pet! We could not have done it without you! Special thank you to 3rd District Supervisor, Donald Wagner, for sponsoring the animal spay/neuters!

TUSTIN, Calif. (June 25, 2019) - The Orange County Board of Supervisors announced that at noon today OC Animal Care will begin accepting adoption applications for the dogs that were taken into their care from a suspected hoarding situation in the City of Orange.Check out the link to our press release below or visit our website for details and how to submit your application!

Animal Control Officer Holladay has been voted Employee of the Year by his peers! ACO Holladay has been working with OC Animal Care since December 2015, and he currently holds Bachelor degrees in Criminal Justice and Political Science from Cal State Fullerton. Before ACO Holladay started working at the shelter, he wasn’t too fond of cats… and now he LOVES them! He is a tremendous asset to our team and we are very proud and lucky to have him. Way to go Officer Holladay!

Introducing this month's Volunteer of the Month, Barbara Greschner! Barbara is a rock here at OCAC and is always ready to jump in and lend a hand to any department that needs her. No task is too big or small for her and we all know we can count on her! Her dedication to helping animals is truly admirable and embodies our mission here at OC Animal Care. Thank you for everything you do, Barbara!

 

To the wonderfully compassionate residents of Orange County,

Let me start by saying thank you. You saw over 140 dogs in immediate need, and you jumped to action. You have warmed our hearts with the outpouring of generous donations we have received ever since this case broke last Friday. You have responded SO generously that we are no longer in need of supplies at this time, which is truly incredible!

We still need you, though. More than ever, OC.

As many of you know, this case has occurred at a time when we are already well over our capacity for animals. The sudden need to accommodate and care for an additional ~140 dogs is truly testing our limits, and it has created an unsustainable and urgent situation for all of our animals. We need your help. We need adopters. We need our amazing community to open up their homes to any of the hundreds of loving pets currently in our care waiting for their forever homes. The dogs involved in this case will not be ready for adoption while the investigation continues and they will need continuous care throughout, but hundreds and hundreds of incredible pets are ready to go home with you now and adoption fees are still being waived. Every single adoption will allow us to keep to our high standards of care and our high standards for the opportunities we strive to give every life.

If you’ve followed our organization’s recent progress, you’ve seen us grow into a shelter that gives the pets in our care every available chance for a forever home. From dogs like Fenway, who has been waiting for his forever home for 492 days and counting, cats like 15 year old Smokey who is in the golden years of his life, or the thousands of vulnerable newborn kittens that we have committed to trying to save. We know you support us in these efforts, Orange County, and we need you NOW to help us continue to give animals like this the chances they all deserve.

We can’t wait to find you your next family member. See you soon, Orange County!

Mike Kaviani
Director, OC Animal Care
(714) 222-0041 (cell)

7/1/2019 UPDATE: THE FEE WAIVER IS NO LONGER IN EFFECTOC Animal Care is currently at 112% capacity! We are having a temporary fee waiver until the shelter population is below 60%.Please see the flyer for additional details. read more

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Memorial Day weekend was a huge success for us as we honored service men and women with our Animals for Armed Forces. From May 24-26 a total of 15 military adoptions took place, as well as 83 public adoptions – totaling to 98 adoptions for the whole weekend! We’re greatly appreciative of our partnership with Animals for Armed Forces Foundation for their support, and to everyone that came out to adopt a new furry friend!