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Animal Control Services

Animal Control Services helps ensure everyone's safe, healthy and peaceful enjoyment of Edmonton neighbourhoods.

We enforce the Animal Licensing and Control Bylaw which makes owners responsible for their pet’s actions, helps return lost pets to their owners, and ensures pets are a positive addition to the community.

For more detailed information about Animal Control Services, please visit our Frequently Asked Questions.

Animal Control Officers

Animal Control Officers help owners ensure their pets are a positive addition to the community. This is done through education programs, mediating neighbour disputes, providing advice, and enforcement.

Officers also patrol neighbourhoods for stray animals and return lost pets to their owners.

Animal Control Officers are sworn peace officers, giving them the ability to write tickets and lay charges that require a pet owner to appear in court.

They assist the Edmonton Police Service with aggressive or injured animals, Provincial Brand Inspectors with loose livestock, and provincial Conservation Officers with wildlife inside city limits.

Animal Services Facility

The Animal Services Facility is where Edmonton’s stray and lost pets are housed. The facility takes care of animals until their rightful owners can be found or until they are transferred to an adoption agency.

Staff at the facility are trained to look after the health and well-being of all pets in our care by providing:

• First aid and veterinary care for animals that come in with an injury
• Quality food
• Kennels that are cleaned and disinfected throughout each day 
• Vaccinations to protect from infection
• Speciality care for unique pets by consulting with the Edmonton Reptile and Amphibian Society, Alberta Ferret Society, Wildlife Rehabilitation Society and others.

For more information:

Animal Services