City of Augusta Animal Services

They have a great volunteer program where people can help gives animals a break from the shelter for a few hours every day. The new facility is nice and warm inside which helps in the cold. The ladies that are welcoming everyone are so helpful and truly care about the animals.

I love this place because I work Dog and Cat Networking Agent Rescue, and I am one of many fosters. We all work together here as a family to help save as many as we can. I come here a lot, and it's sad to see how many strays and dumps and surrenders that come here, but we all try our best. Everyone here is amazing, and they truly care for these fur babies.

It's been more than a year since I adopted their "Silver" a grey male Tabby who didn't and still doesn't like being put in a carrier. I walked in, chose him, finished the paperwork and was out within thirty minutes. One may think this would be a hasty adoption, that it would turn out to be a bad fit. But no. He has been the best cat for my situation and I am so grateful to the people and the kennel that let us meet. He will cuddle and play and just be around when I need, he is diplomatic to the dogs and gets affection and play from them, he convinced the local strays close enough for me to get them fixed, and brings me the results of his hunts in the night (even if it is just a leaf). Such an intelligent young man, I love him very much, and he will have a life well lived if I have anything to say about it.

So I just want everyone to be aware of Augusta Animal Services and what I’ve been dealing with for the past few weeks. My animals were removed from my boyfriends home and taken to Augusta Animal Services on 7/28/2023 the animal control people were made aware that I do not live in Augusta where my cats were staying for a short time after having kittens so they told my boyfriend that I had til august the 8th (this past Monday) to go and pick up my cats since I live a hour and a half away and have to use my moms vehicle since I wrecked mine back in December. I went up there on Friday, the forth, and was told they had sent them to a rescue that they would contact the rescue to bring them back, so I went back up there the next day Saturday the fifth only to be told one of my cats wasn’t up there because she had been adopted out, despite Georgia law being that they have to hold them FIVE BUSINESS DAYS. They adopted her out on August the 2nd which was THREE business days after they got her in. So I told them since they illegally adopted out my cat that they needed to get her back from the adopter because she was technically still mine and they hadn’t waited the appropriate amount of time according to Georgia state law and their website. They told me they would have to speak to their legal team to determine if they could get her back despite the director saying it was a “mistake” on their part and she shouldn’t have been adopted out. Well I got a phone call today after they spoke with their legal team stating there was nothing I can do and that it is a civil matter at this point, even though they are they ones that illegally adopted her out. I have security footage from my boyfriends security camera in his home that proves the date that my animals were removed and they still refuse to go get my cat back. It’s insane and they should do something about it. But instead they choose not to. And the bad thing is is this isn’t even the first so called “mistake” they’ve made acc...

On 9/14/23 a random pitbull came up to Anthony at work (he works in Augusta) and he was a very young intact male that was super friendly as soon as he walked up to my husband. He followed him around all morning, he ate lunch with ant and his coworkers, he played in the “shop” while my husband cleaned up and reorganized everything and was overall a super good boy. Anthony had been sending me pictures and videos all morning of the dog playing and following him around and on his lunch break he called me to ask what I thought he should do about the dog, he was completely prepared to simply bring him home but Marlow is VERY dog reactive and adding a dog to our household would be super difficult because of this. I told ant he should call the shelter and have them scan him for a chip, if he didn’t have one they could take him in for vetting and have him rehomed to a forever home - this is what I have always seen happen with any other shelter I have ever worked with and I had to reason to expect different from this one. A coworkers mom took the dog to the shelter and he had no microchip so he was taken to the back to be processed into the shelter. **From the time he was dropped off until 9/22/23 that same amazing lady called at least every other day for updates on him as she wanted to know when he was adopted. My husband and his coworkers were super invested in this good boy finding a forever home.** On 9/22/23 my husbands coworker got a call from his mom that the dog had been put on the euthanasia list. I checked on the shelters website to find he was NEVER EVEN POSTED AS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION. He somehow made it onto the euthanasia list before even having a chance to find a new home. My husband called and explained he knew the dog and was the one to call them when he was found, they told him if he picked him up before they closed Friday he could take him home to stop him from being put down. My husband got permission from his boss to leave work long enough to get th...