Animal Control – a service that is provided through the Police Department.
Responsibilities
Animal Services delivers effective, courteous, and responsive animal care and control services to the residents of Cottonwood Shores. Animal Services accomplishes the goals of protecting public safety and ensuring animal welfare through compassionate, responsive, professional enforcement of the laws and public policy.
Some concerns that Animal Services addresses are:
Rabies control and other zoonotic diseases
Enforcement of city, state, and federal laws
Public education
Vaccination requirements
Stray and/or abandoned animals
Neglected / abused animals
Unsanitary conditions
Increase awareness of the necessity to spay / neuter
Ownership limitation requirement
The Animal Control staff are responsible to pick up all stray dogs within the City Limits of Cottonwood Shores