*Our mission is to balance the health, safety and welfare needs of the people and animals in our City:
*To provide education to promote responsible pet ownership;
*To protect animals and citizens by actively enforcing state and local laws;
*Reduce pet overpopulation through education regarding spaying and neutering;
*Strengthening the human-animal bond to reduce the number of animals surrendered to overcrowded shelters;
*Reuniting lost and missing pets with the rightful owners;
*Adoption of unwanted, abused, special needs and neglected animals into loving, permanent homes;
*Work closely with respectable rescues;
*To ensure that all animals are spayed or neutered prior to adoption in an effort to reduce the number of homeless pets;
*To provide a loving, temporary shelter while maintaining a vigorous relocation program.