Most Animal Control Departments are government agencies. As such, they are mandated to provide services within their jurisdiction. These services may include handling and providing care for sick or injured stay animals, dealing with animal-related complaints, surrender of stray animals, licensing, code enforcement, and quality of life issues.
 
Each department has different policies in terms of pick-up vs drop-off, hours, and eventual outcomes for surrendered animals (including euthanasia). Most of them also contract with established shelters to provide the bulk of their services, but excluding those activities that require a degree of enforcement authority (complaints, code enforcement, cruelty seizures/investigations, etc.).
 
If your city is not listed and you live in Santa Clara County, you may not have an animal control agency. Contact your police non-emergency line for assistance.
 
Click for Full list of S. Bay Shelters and Animal Control Depts.

 

            City

Animal Control

 

San Jose

Cupertino

Los Gatos

Milpitas

Saratoga

 

San Jose Animal Control (SJAC):

2750 Monterey Road
San Jose, CA 95111

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(408) 578-PAWS (7297)

 

http://www.sanjoseanimals.com/

 

 

Santa Clara

Monte Sereno

Campbell

 

 

Silicon Valley Animal Control Authority (SVACA)

3370 Thomas Road,

Santa Clara, CA 95054 - Interactive Map

Phone: (408) 764-0344
Fax: (408) 988-5411
Contact Us via
E-mail

 http://www.svaca.com/index.html

 

 

 Sunnyvale

 

 

Humane Society Silicon Valley (HSSV)  (Map)
2530 Lafayette Street
Santa Clara, CA
95050


408-
262-2133

http://hssv.org/

 

 

Palo Alto

Mountain View

Los Altos

Los Altos Hills

 

 

Palo Alto Animal Services 

3281 E. Bayshore Road,

Palo Alto, CA 91303

 

650-496-5971

 http://www.cityofpaloalto.org/depts/pol/animal_services.asp

 

 

 

Unincorporated

Santa Clara County

 

Santa Clara County Animal Shelter

12370 Murphy Avenue in

San Martin, California 95046 

 

(408) 465-2920.

  www.southcountypets.com

http://www.sccgov.org/portal/site/acc

 

 

 Hollister

 

Animal Control

375 Fifth St

Hollister, CA 95023

 

(831) 636-4320

 

http://www.hollinet.com/~shelter/cat.html