| |  |  |  | | | |  Welcome to the Village: Home of Long Beach Animal Care Services
The Bureau of Animal Care Services is charged with protecting the animals that share our city. We ensure the welfare of all pets, companion animals and wild animals. We provide adoption services, return animals to their owners whenever possible and provide animal owners with good advice on how best to care for their animal throughout the year. Here are some of the highlights of our web site. If you can't readily find the information you seek, please click the "contact us" tab on the menu at the left of page for a full list of contacts by phone, email and U. S. Mail. We are still adding content to the site. Please bear with us. If you don't find what you need, please email us. Suggestions and comments are always welcome. | | 
If you have lost your animal we will make every effort to reunite you with your pet. The Animal Care Services Bureau has teamed with the largest pet adoption and recovery provider on the Internet: Petfinder.com. View the animals currently being held in our kennel that have been rescued from the streets. | | 
Animal related permits Report animal welfare problems. For barking, mistreatment of pets or other difficulties, please contact Animal Care Services to begin the complaint process. In a life threatening emergency ONLY, dial 9-1-1. | | 
Information on getting a license for your animal. Download the application and mail it in with payment to get started protecting your pet! | | 
P.D. Pitchford Companion Animal Village
7700 East Spring Street (MAP)
Long Beach, CA 90808
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On behalf of animals abandoned by their owners due to the foreclosure crisis, an important new law will take effect on January 1, 2009. The law provides animal control officers with significant new powers to act quickly and effectively to assure the welfare of abandoned pets.
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Canvassing will be conducted across the City of Long Beach over the next six months. The Animal Care Services Bureau of the Department of Health and Human Services will be working with Los Angeles County Animal Care and Control to update license records. The canvassing will commence in early December 2008 and continue throughout the city until it is completed. License inspectors will be going door to door to check on delinquent licenses, initiate a license for a new pet or to ask for proof of rabies certification.
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HOW YOU CAN HELP. The City of Long Beach Animal Care Services has implemented a new program for collecting all sizes of the classic red, rubber KONG toys for shelter dogs in the Animal Village facility.
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