Information about the Coos County Animal Shelter

Recently, Capt. J. Patterson emailed local law enforcement agencies to indicate that the Coos County Animal Shelter is well over capacity and cannot currently accept dogs or cats. The e-mail was sent to ensure that our law enforcement partners throughout Coos County were aware of the shelter’s status.

The Coos County Animal Shelter is the only shelter in Coos County and is operated by staff from the Coos County Sheriff’s Office. It is important to note that the shelter currently houses over (30) dogs and (80) cats. The Coos County Animal Shelter is a “No Kill” shelter, meaning it falls between less than 7% of euthanasia of sick or injured animals. It is our hope and desire to adopt ALL animals to safe and happy homes.

The rate of canines received into the shelter before exceeding capacity was (3) for every (1) canine adopted.

Our Shelter Staff are working diligently to get these animals to their forever homes, please be patient with us.

The public has inquired about the status of the shelter after seeing posts on Facebook, so we wanted to let you know what we are doing to make things better for Coos County, one animal at a time.