Oaklandâs Only Open Admission Shelter
Oakland Animal Services (OAS) is the City's open door shelter. The agency provides animal control services as well as animal adoptions, redemptions, surrenders, licensing, etc. OAS handles around 6,000 stray, surrendered, abused, and neglected animals per year. Friends of OAS is a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to supporting the agency by raising funds to provide medical care, lab work, enrichment and beds for the shelter's animals. Friends of OAS also funds the volunteer program, facility improvements, animal transports, and staff training.
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Great work, Oakland Animal Services, getting 89 dogs adopted in 5 days!!! Best wishes to all the dogs and their new families. Thank you OAS!
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I fostered this little nugget (named Hamlet) for the last week and he was adopted yesterday at Oakland Animal Services !!!! đđđđI am so proud and grateful for the amazing staff and volunteers of Oakland Animal Services and all they do for the pets & strays of the East Bay. OAS has sent over 50 dogs to their Fuuurrever homes in the past few days! đŸFostering saves lives yall! I am also starting a new policy that if you are a pack member and bring home a Foster dog from any rescue (for a week or more) I will give you a Free pack walk once a month (for every month you foster for a week of more, limit up to 6 free walks a year). Fostering frees up space at the shelter for other incoming pups & helps make the foster more adoptable. So here's another reason to start fostering todayđ
Head on over to Oakland Animal Services (OAS) this week to adopt a big dog! Adoption hours are extended this week to help get at least 50 big dogs adopted by Monday, January 16. Adoption hours this Friday through Monday are 12pm to 5pm. Additionally, adoption fees for big dogs are waived during this special adoption event!
OAS is Oaklandâs only open admission shelter, helping over 6,500 homeless, lost and injured animals annually. Overcrowding has become an epidemic for shelters across the country, and in Oakland, dog intake has been increasing. Last year, OAS took in 555 more dogs compared to the same period in 2021.
There is now an urgent need to find a home for at least 50 big dogs! Pictured here are just a few dogs (Bon Jovi - top left, Kismet - top right, and Redford - bottom left) who are available for adoption at OAS. Check out the OAS website to see all dogs available for adoption, and head on over during open adoption hours to adopt a dog today!
www.oaklandanimalservices.org
Do you live in the Oakland area and need a big ol' smooch from a big ol' pup? Consider going to Oakland Animal Services to adopt one of their big dogs.
SOS! When you see dogs on Cat Townâs social media, you KNOW itâs urgent. Our city shelter Oakland Animal Services needs your help. After a huge spike in dog intake, they have no more room for incoming dogs. Starting next week, they may need to euthanize dogs for lack of space â but they are asking for the community to step up to help!
The shelterâs goal is to get 50 big dogs adopted by this Monday, January 16. Theyâre extending their adoption hours this Thursday 12-7pm and Friday to Monday 12-5pm to make that happen.
YOU can help in three powerful ways:
1. Adopt a big dog â
www.oaklandanimalservices.org/adopt/dogs
2. Foster a big dog â
www.oaklandanimalservices.org/how-to-help/fostering-animals/
3. Spread the news â add posts and stories from Oakland Animal Services to your feed, and talk to people you know who might be able to adopt or foster.
The shelter has already worked so hard to make as much space for incoming animals as possible, including rolling out new programs and stretching their limited resources. Because of their dedication, the euthanasia rate for shelter dogs is the lowest itâs ever been. Letâs make sure it stays that way.
Please join us in stepping up for Oaklandâs dogs, and showing Oaklandâs shelter some love, to meet this goal!
Oakland Animal Services needs help! Read on for more:
Can you help us find new homes for 50 dogs in 5 days? Because thatâs what we need to open up room in our shelter and foster program to enable us to continue taking in the dogs that arrive in our care every single day!
Oakland Animal Services is Oaklandâs only open admission shelter, helping over 6,500 homeless, lost and injured animals annually. Since 2020, OAS has undertaken a significant restructuring to save more shelter animalsâ lives. By focusing on returning lost pets, increasing adoptions, expanding foster programs and supporting people in keeping their pets, OAS has decreased euthanasia for dogs by 67% and has not had to euthanize dogs for space since 2019.
Overcrowding has become an epidemic for shelters across the country, and in Oakland dog intake has been increasing over several months. In 2022, OAS took in 555 more dogs compared to the same period in 2021. There is now an urgent need to find 50 big dogs a home by Monday, January 16, 2022.
OAS is asking the community to save an animalâs life by adopting a dog. Those who want to help but cannot adopt are encouraged to foster a pet, which will help address the immediate crowding crisis.
âThe changes we have made in the last three years, as well as the tremendous community support that we have received, has made it possible to achieve the lowest euthanasia rate for dogs in OASâs history in 2022. Weâre asking for people to step up in a big way to help our dogs now,â said Ann Dunn, Director of Oakland Animal Services.
Weâll be having extended adoption hours from Thursday through Monday, where you can stop by without an appointment and head home with your new dog!
Check out all our available dogs at
https://www.oaklandanimalservices.org/adopt/dogs/ and pick out your favorites to meet. And, if youâre not in a position to adopt, please help us to spread the word to your networks â we canât do this without the support of all of our community!
Extended adoption hours:
Thursday 1/12 noon-7
Friday 1/13 noon-5
Saturday 1/14 noon-5
Sunday 1/15 noon-5
Monday 1/16 noon-5
Please read this entire post and then go and adopt your new family member from Oakland Animal Services â€ïžđ¶â€ïž Please and thank you!
Oakland Animal Services is one of our amazing partners, so we want to share their special event this weekend - let's get those 50 dogs into homes!
50 dogs in 5 days! đ¶ Oakland Animal Services needs to clear their kennels to make room for more animals and this promotion is a great way to do it! đ
Head to their facility if youâre looking to adopt OR share this post to help their animals find a home! â€ïž
Big dogs need to be adopted or sheltered ASAP. If you have any availability to help big dogs please reach out to OAS
Oakland Animal Services needs your help, our shelters are full and in need of support. Please help spread the word!
Question - If someone severely neglected their dogs and had them taken away, why would they be allowed to have a dog again?
Abusers don't change. It's not fair to the animals.
Weâd like to give a big thank you to all of the families who adopted pets from us during the month of December! 41 pets found new homes!
Congrats to dogs: Bob, Bart, Sophie (now Cleo), Otis, Chamomile (now Chloe), Ruda, R***r, Louie, Jazz, Penne (now Lo**ta), Amy, Bella, Warner, and Obi-wan, and a Shih Tzu who was adopted before he was named!
Congrats to cats & kittens: Mavis, Blu, Merry, Bright, Autumn, Wyatt, Nicholas, Chutney, Ralphie, Penelope, Frosty, JJ, Mia, Munchkin, Berry (now Sophia), Mistletoe, Eggnog, Kermit (now Sprinkles), Belle, Spruce, Poinsettia, an unnamed kitten, and two feral cats who found a working cat home!
Congrats to bunnies: Muffin, and Jar Jar Binks!
We would also like to share our gratitude to the following rescues and shelters who helped us save even more pets last month!
Tri-Valley Animal Rescue 18 cats/kittens, 6 dogs/pups
East Bay SPCA 13 cats/kittens, 11 dogs
Valley Humane Society 7 cats/kittens, 7 dogs
East Bay Rabbit Rescue 4 bunnies
Calpaws K9 Rescue 3 dogs
Oakland Animal Services 15 dogs
MAD Rescue 1 dog
Central Coast Herding Dog Rescue 1 dog
Gardner's Pig Pen 5 guinea pigs
We appreciate you!
With Oakland's animal shelters once again at capacity, we're helping our friends at Oakland Animal Services find homes for as many animal friends as we can, including Sammy.
Sammy didnât get her Christmas wish of finding her forever home before the new year but she is still very hopeful and waiting patiently, as she knows the person for her is out there somewhere. Might it be you? Sammy is currently at Oakland Animal Services and would love to be in a foster or adoptive home instead!
Sammy is a sweet and mellow girl who would love to be your couch potato. She is content to spend most of her time chilling with you, or just hanging out on any comfy surface. Overall, she's an easygoing dog for a family that wants a chill, not-too-active pup.
This sweet girl doesn't get fazed by much (i.e. noise or lots of people in the home, or the vacuum cleaner). On walks she gets overwhelmed seeing other dogs so she would do best living in a quiet mellow neighborhood. She knows some basic cues already like âsitâ, âdownâ, and âpawâ.
Can you foster, or adopt, Sammy? Sammy is 10 years old and around 45 lbs. Oakland Animal Services is open for adoptions on Thursdays 12-7pm, and Fridays to Sundays 12-3pm. Check out their dog foster open house every Thursday from 12-7pm where you can drop by the shelter to learn more about fostering and if thereâs a good fit, go home with a foster dog that day!
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU OAS!! I am in LOVE!!đ I adopted Mimi (previously known as Garnet) on 10/17/2022. SHE rescued ME!! She's still going through adjusting to her new environment.. but she is such a sweet baby! ... and she deserves to be spoiled rotten!!