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Our adoptions are available for people in the DuPage County and surrounding Illinois area. All dogs, cats, and rabbits are spayed or neutered, current on their vaccinations (if applicable) and have a PetLink microchip for identification.
Our adoptions are available for people in the DuPage County and surrounding Illinois area. All dogs, cats, and rabbits are spayed or neutered, current on their vaccinations (if applicable) and have a PetLink microchip for identification.
About Dupage County Animal Services
DuPage County Animal Services is a self-supporting county department designed to:
Prevent and control rabies through bite investigation and rabies registration.
Enforce state and county animal control and welfare laws.
Protecting animals from improper use, abuse, neglect, inhumane treatment and health hazards.
Operate a shelter for stray and owner-relinquished non-native animals.
Promote responsible pet-ownership and animal welfare through counseling and law enforcement.
Rescue animals that are lost, diseased, injured, or in peril.
Provide public education programs for adults and children.
Preventing the birth of unwanted animals.
Reuniting lost pets and their families.
Adopting animals into loving, responsible homes.
Protecting the residents of DuPage County from hazards or nuisances caused by animals.
DuPage County Animal Services is a self-supporting county department designed to:
Prevent and control rabies through bite investigation and rabies registration.
Enforce state and county animal control and welfare laws.
Protecting animals from improper use, abuse, neglect, inhumane treatment and health hazards.
Operate a shelter for stray and owner-relinquished non-native animals.
Promote responsible pet-ownership and animal welfare through counseling and law enforcement.
Rescue animals that are lost, diseased, injured, or in peril.
Provide public education programs for adults and children.
Preventing the birth of unwanted animals.
Reuniting lost pets and their families.
Adopting animals into loving, responsible homes.
Protecting the residents of DuPage County from hazards or nuisances caused by animals.
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Support adoption and rescue. Why go to a dog breeder, cat breeder or pet store to buy a dog or buy a cat when you can adopt?
Why should you adopt?
Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life.
What is the difference between adopting a dog, adopting a cat, adopting a kitten or adopting a puppy versus getting dogs for sale, cats for sale, puppies for sale or kittens for sale from a dog breeder or a cat breeder?
When someone is breeding puppies or breeding kittens, they are creating new dogs and cats who need homes. Some people are interested in a very specific breed of dog, cat, puppy or kitten and they think the only way to find that specific breed is to buy a dog for sale or buy a cat for sale from a puppy breeder or a kitten breeder. Yet animal shelters are filled with dogs and cats who must find homes.
So rather than buying a dog or puppy for sale from a dog breeder or buying a cat or kitten for sale from a cat breeder, we encourage people to adopt a dog, adopt a cat, adopt a puppy or adopt a kitten at their local animal shelter, SPCA, humane society or pet rescue group.
