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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

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3910 Napoleon Lane,
Iowa City, IA, 52240

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Shelter FAQs

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.

  • 1. Submit Application
  • 2. Visit the Facility and Find a Pet
  • 3. Pay Fee
  • 4. Take the Pet Home

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.

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