09 Jan Inclement Weather Operations for January 10, 2025

Dallas Animal Services will be closed to the public on Friday, January 10th, due to the continuing inclement weather. We will reopen at 11 a.m. on Saturday, January 11th (weather permitting).

LOST PETS

If you are missing your lost pet, you are welcome to come walk through our shelter to see if they are here – staff will be on site and happy to assist you. If you need to reach our pet support team, please email daspetsupport@dallas.gov.

FIELD SERVICES

Our Animal Services Officers will continue to operate 24/7. If you see an owned pet left in the cold with no access to shelter, please call 311. Our priority will be weather-related calls. When submitting a report online for pets left in the cold, select Animal Lack of Care. https://dallascrm.my.site.com/public/s/

ADOPTIONS

Our adoption lobby will be closed: however, staff will be working to process online adoptions. Please feel free to submit adoption applications on Friday! If you need to reach our adoptions team, please email dasadopt@dallas.gov.

INTAKE

Intake will be closed to owner surrenders. However, we will still accept intakes of sick or injured strays ONLY needing immediate attention, from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m. Owner surrenders should make an appointment online at BeDallas90.org/rehome, and healthy strays should not be brought into the shelter until Saturday, January 11th.

If you find a healthy, friendly stray animal, we strongly encourage you to bring them inside, if possible, and provide them shelter until Saturday, January 11th at 11 a.m. when we reopen (weather permitting). When bringing an unknown animal into your household, we strongly recommend keeping them isolated from your personal pets. Otherwise, please call 311. Due to the anticipated road conditions and volume of high-priority calls, please expect longer wait times.

ANIMAL CARE

Animal care staff will be on-site to care for our animals and medical staff will be on-site to provide critical care for sick and injured pets in the shelter.

BUILDING SAFETY

We are monitoring the temperature carefully to ensure the building stays adequately warm throughout the day. Our parking lots and sidewalks are sanded but if you enter our parking lot, please drive carefully.

DONATIONS

If you would like to know how to help Dallas Animal Services, we would love donations of blankets and towels to help keep our animals warm. You can also donate to Friends of Dallas Animal Services at friendsofdas.org. As always, we are eager for foster homes, even short term, to help reduce our shelter capacity and save lives. Email dasfoster@dallas.gov if you can help.

Thank you and stay safe.