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Provides assistance for stray cats and dogs, barking dogs, biting incidents, and the capture of domestic or wild animals posing a health or safety threat.

Provides and enforces regulations (ordinances) regarding the treatment and control of animals in the city. Also responsible for the enforcement of the state statutes governing rabies control in domestic companion animals. Adoption services available through the office.

Provides rescue and adoption services. Offering a safe haven for local animals who are strays or have owners who can no longer care for them. Also offers dog training, affordable spay/neuter services, foster program and transport program.

Offers veterans a chance to benefit from an animal by providing:

- Training Programs.
- Fostering.
- Reduced Adoption Fees.

Also provides active duty military members with foster care for animals during deployment.

Provides shelter to homeless animals and places suitable animals in new homes through an adoption program. Services also include dog training, low-cost spay/neuter programs, and a variety of humane education programs. Trapped feral cats may be brought to the shelter for spay or neuter surgery for later release. Animal traps may be "rented" for no fee, but an agreement must be signed to return it. Investigations of possible animal neglect or cruelty under the Illinois Humane Care for Animals Act. Emergencies involving animal abuse should be reported to the police immediately.

Provides the following services:

- Homeless animal shelter.

- Animal adoption.

- Low-cost veterinary care.

- Free pet food pantry.

- Low cost spay/neuter.

Responds to calls and aids in the rescuing of abandoned, sick or injured or stray animals.

Offers to Help find homes for adoptable animals No animal is ever turned away from the shelter regardless of health, age, breed, or temperament.

All pets for adoption will be spayed/neutered before leaving the shelter, are current on all age-appropriate vaccines and microchipped and tested for heartworms (dogs) or FELV (cats).

Macon County Animal Control has a veterinarian on staff.

Provides animal adoption, rabies tag registration of all dogs and cats, consultations on animal bites, low cost spay or neuter services, adoption of stray cats and dogs in shelter, microchipping, vaccinations, information regarding lost pets. Adoption counselors may be available to assist with adoptions, answer questions about the adoption application, schedule an animal visit, purchase rabies tags, and to make a payment for donation.

Animal Control Services provides for:

-- Registration of all dogs and cats

-- Microchipping

-- Rabies control

Low-cost spay/neuter program available.

Provides a dog rescue devoted to saving canines in need. Programs include adoption program, foster program, and home to home program, as well as humane investigation (abuse and neglect of dogs). All of the dogs are in foster homes and people must make an appointment and complete the adoption application before adopting. To view available dogs, see the website.

Services include:

- Animal Cruelty investigations on animals residing within the city limits of Aurora.

- Barking dog complaints.

- Investigation of animal bites.

- Provide pet adoptions of pets housed at the facility.

- Removal of road killed animals from the streets of Aurora.

- Removal of stray cats or dogs within city limits.

- Talks to groups about being safe around animals, responsible pet ownership and proper pet care.

Provides a no-kill shelter that cares for up to 30 dogs and 60 cats at any given time.

Works to reduce the cat population in Central Illinois using the Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR) method. Services include:

- Spay/neuter trapped cats with the assistance of the participating veterinarians, which are then returned to their original area to be released.

- Vaccinate for rabies and distemper.

- Lend traps.

- Offer advice to caretakers (colony managers) on the feral cat colony maintenance.

- Require caretakers (colony managers) to register with the SFF to request assistance with the TNR.

Low cost spay/neuter services for indoor and outdoor cats are also offered.

Does not:

- Remove or relocate cats.

- Accept or adopt cats.

Offers older adults an opportunity to adopt an older cat age 10 and older or older dogs ages 8 and older with no adoption fee. Services may also include free health examinations by a participating veterinarian in the are served.

Promotes the humane treatment of hooved animals through education, legislation, investigation and, if necessary, legal intervention (impoundment). Also provides physical rehabilitation to animals that have endured severe neglect and abuse and then facilitates adoption to compassionate homes.

Animals targeted are: horses, sheep, goats, llamas, and pot-belly pigs.

- Provides for abandoned, abused, or lost animals.

- Enforces State and County laws on domestic pets.

- Provides the public with information on dogs and cats in the county.

- Places animals that are up for adoption.

- Returns lost pets to their owners.

- Registers dogs and cats in the county and makes sure of rabies inoculations.

Animal services, including aid to surrendered animals and finding adoptive homes for the animals. Agency is volunteer-run.

Provides a variety of enforcement, educational, and animal disposition services including, dog licensing, cruelty and complaint investigation, pet care presentations, animal adoptions.

For situations in which an animal's welfare may be in jeopardy (such as animal abuse, neglect, injury, or endangerment) or where public health or safety may be impacted (such as a bite, attack, or harassment of a person by an animal), contact the office to report what was seen or heard. An Animal Control Officer will be dispatched to investigate the situation.