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Animal Services
Animal Services

Report animal issues

Field Service Division provides animal control services to the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County including the Stanford Campus.

Female officer with a leashed cow at a nursery (cow is standing on nursery plants)

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What we do

Santa Clara County Animal Services Officers can assist in the following:

  • Pick up lost or displaced domestic animals
  • Patrol for stray, roaming, or aggressive domestic animals
  • Investigate animal bites
  • Investigate dangerous dog complaints
  • Investigate animal abuse and neglect, including livestock and exotic animals
  • Pick up injured or sick domestic animals
  • Assist with injured wildlife
  • Pick up deceased animals within County jurisdiction and all expressways within Santa Clara County

Officers handle roughly 3,000 calls for service a year and cover close to 1,300 square miles of the county!

For "nuisance" wildlife concerns

For nuisance wildlife concerns please visit the County of Santa Clara Vector Control website, visit vector.santaclaracounty.gov

For injured or endangered wildlife

California Department of Fish & Wildlife at (707) 944-5500 or visit wildlife.ca.gov
Peninsula Humane Society & SPCA at (408) 929-9453 or visit phs-spca.org/found-a-wild-animal/
Education and Rehabilitation Center at (408) 779-9372 or visit werc-ca.org
 

A Day in the Life of an Animal Control Officer