Santa Rosa County Animal Services

10/08/2025

🐾 September’s Animal Control Numbers 📊
Join us in thanking our dedicated Animal Control Officers for their hard work at keeping both animals and people safe. Their impact is felt every day in our community! 🐈🐕

10/07/2025

✨ New Faces at the Shelter! ✨
We’ve got some adorable new arrivals who are ready to find their furever homes! 🐕
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Stop by during our office hours or check out their profiles on our website to learn more.
Let’s help these sweet critters start their next chapter! 🏡🐾

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➡️ Appointments: [email protected]/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://outlook.office365.com/book/[email protected]/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true
💙 Adopt from us: https://www.santarosa.fl.gov/990/Adopt

10/07/2025

📊 Monthly Outcomes Update 🐾
We’re proud to share with you successful year-to-date outcome numbers thanks to the tremendous work our from staff members!

At least 1,181 animals have found their furever homes and 324 were transferred or serviced out. Your support helps us maintain a positive outcome rate of over 90% while ensuring that every animal gets the second chance they deserve. 🐶🐱
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To maintain a “No-Kill” status, first awarded in 2019, our shelter must ensure a 90% positive outcome for all animals in its care. Therefore, only 10% or less of all outcomes are negative, meaning animals 'crossing the rainbow bridge.' This accounts for passing due to illness, injury, complications during or after surgery, and humane euthanasia.

Dogs that are humanely euthanized due to behavioral issues or bite history have been through a series of rigorous behavioral testing and are deemed not safe to be adopted for the general public.
Animals who have spent an extensive amount of time in a shelter begin to exhibit behavioral issues due to environmental stress. This is why we highly encourage fostering and removing animals from this environment.

In order to be transparent and show our cooperation, we will regularly post information aimed at educating our community about the difficult reality of maintaining a “No-Kill” shelter.

As always, we prioritize the safety of our community and its most vulnerable animals.
If you have any more questions please contact Animal Services Chief Randy Lambert at [email protected].

10/06/2025

Look who’s been adopted/ fostered-to-adopt! 📸
Thank you for opening your hearts and homes to these amazing animals. 💙
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➡️ Appointments: [email protected]/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://outlook.office365.com/book/[email protected]/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true
🏡 Adopt from us: https://www.santarosa.fl.gov/990/Adopt

10/06/2025

🐶🥜 We’re in a Sticky Situation and we need your help! 🥜🐶
Our pups love their peanut butter. We use it for enrichment and helping with meds but our shelves are running low and our dogs are giving us puppy eyes… 👀
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We’re asking the community for donations of dog-safe peanut butter (no xylitol) to help keep our pups happy and healthy. 💙
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You can drop off donations at our shelter during our office hours!
Thank you for your support! 🥜

10/05/2025

🐾 Weekend Volunteers Needed! 🐾
Looking for a way to make a difference? We’re in need of extra hands on the weekends to help care for our furry friends! Every bit helps. 💙
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Contact us via
Phone: 850-981-8878
Email: [email protected]
Web: santarosa.fl.gov/761/Volunteer-Program

10/04/2025

🐾 Meet Cocoa! 🐶
Cocoa is around 3-4 years old and she is such a sweetheart. She can seem a little timid at first but she really just has a gentle soul. Cocoa has been patiently waiting to meet her adoptive parents… could it be you?

Come meet Cocoa at our shelter and see if she’d be a good fit for your family! 🏡
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➡️ Appointments: [email protected]/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://outlook.office365.com/book/[email protected]/?ismsaljsauthenabled=true
🐕 Adoptable dogs: https://www.santarosa.fl.gov/776/Adoptable-Dogs

10/04/2025

10/04/2025

Catch us at Petco Pensacola from 2 - 4 p.m. for an offsite adoption event. Stop by in store and meet your furever friend! 🐾
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We’ll see you there! 🐶
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From Oct. 1 - 15, all adoption fees are $10 here at SRCAS thanks to the BISSELL Pet Foundation. Let’s together! 🐾

10/03/2025

📢 We’re bringing Community Cat Day to you, Tiger Point! 📢
Our next Community Cat Day will be on Thursday, October 16! You wanted us to come to South End, now we’re coming! 🚐
🐾 30 cat limit this time 🐾

📍Tiger Point Community Center, 1370 Tiger Park Lane in Tiger Point

► Traps will be handed out at Tiger Point Community Center on October 13, 8 - 9 a.m.
► Cats must be dropped off at Tiger Point Community Center on October 16 at 8 a.m.
► Cat pickup will be from 8 - 9 a.m. the following day, October 17.
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👉 Cats will be selected based on health, size, and priority in line so we encourage participants to arrive earlier than 8 a.m. to secure your spot.
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👉 Cats will be accepted in humane cat traps only (no carriers or kennels allowed).
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⚠️ Please do not trap cats more than 24 hours prior to the event.
⚠️ Malnourishment and higher stress levels can greatly impact their health and resilience during surgery and recovery.
⚠️ Use only appropriately sized traps and please ensure all traps are covered to further reduce the cat’s stress levels.
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Thank you for supporting TNR! 🐈