Animal Control Services are a Public Safety function of the City of New Orleans. The LA/SPCA is contracted by the City of New Orleans to provide Animal Control services as outlined below to Orleans Parish.

• Stray and unlicensed animal collection via trapping and/or sweeps of neighborhood
• Bite case investigation and aggressive animal removal and management
• Rabies quarantine and control includes head removal as part of the Health Code requirement
• Cruelty and neglect investigations in response to citizen complaints
• Respond to animals in distress 24/7
• Support to NOPD, EMS, NOFD and other city agencies
• Enforcement of city animal ordinances
• Revision of ordinances that address animal issues
• Disaster response
• In field animal education, information and referral
• Animal adoptions
• Humane sheltering of homeless, bite, dangerous, and cruelty case animals including food, shelter, and veterinary medicine
• Humane euthanasia and cremation