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Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center

3910 Napoleon Lane, Iowa City, IA 52240

Contact adoptions staff
Email icanimalcenter@iowa-city.org
Phone (319) 356-5295
cats, dogs, rabbits, reptiles & small animals at Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center
This shelter hasn't posted any pets that match these criteria.

Areas Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center serves

Iowa City Animal Services and Animal Care and Adoption Center provide sheltering services, under contract, to animals from the following communities:
City of Iowa City
Coralville
Unincorporated Johnson County
University Heights
University of Iowa
Citizens from incorporated cities in Johnson County should contact their local city offices to determine who provides service to their community.

Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center's adoption process

1.

Submit Application

Email icanimalcenter@Iowa-City.org

2.

Visit the Facility and Find a Pet

We will email you when your application is approved to set up a time to visit.

3.

Pay Fee

Our adoption fees can be found on our website

4.

Take the Pet Home

Congrats!

Additional adoption info

All animals at the Center go through behavioral and physical evaluations. We feel it is important to assist you in making your adoption decision by providing you as much information as possible about each of our animals. We pride ourselves in offering great animals for adoption and making life long matches between animals and people.

About Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center

The Center offers many types of animals for adoption from dogs and cats to reptiles, birds, small mammals, fish and livestock. Availability depends on actual animal intakes into the facility at any given time.
Iowa City Animal Services operates out of the Iowa City Animal Care and Adoption Center.
Our services include:
Animal Adoption
Animal behavior and training information
Animal related referral services
Barking dog complaints
Bite reporting and quarantine
Community outreach programming
Disaster response
Emergency housing
Facility tours
Food bank
Fostering program
Humane education
Licensing and permits
Lost and found reporting and matching
Low cost spay and neuter referral services
Low cost vaccination referral services
Microchip clinics
Mobile adoption
Neglect and cruelty investigations
Reclaim
Relinquishment
Sheltering services for residence of:
(Iowa City, unincorporated Johnson County, University Heights, Coralville and University of Iowa)
Stray animal pick up
Volunteer Program
Wildlife issues and information

Iowa City Animal Care & Adoption Center's adopted pets

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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.