East Ridge Animal Services
1015 Yale St.
East Ridge, Tennessee 37412
Phone: 423-664-0271
Email: [email protected]
East Ridge Animal Services was created to provide the citizens of East Ridge with fast and courteous animal control services.
East Ridge Animal shelter is certified by the State of Tennessee
East Ridge Officers are both NACA certified National Animal Control Association both Officers hold a State of Tennessee CAET certification Certified Animal Euthanasia Technician and both are members of the Hamilton County DART Team Disaster Animal Response Team.
Officer Zagona is on the Board of Directors of ACAT Tennessee Animal Control Association.
East Ridge Animal Services will work with the new McKamey Animal Care Adoption Center Catoosa County Rabies Control if asked since our areas border each other’s jurisdictions. We cannot provide services to these areas we do help in situations when needed.
Animal Control services are provided 247365 days a year, all calls are ran during regular business hours, on weekends holidays only emergency calls are ran. PLEASE ONLY SICK OR INJURED ANIMAL CALLS, ANIMAL BITES, AGGRESSIVE ANIMALS or ANIMALS at a BUSINESS ARE CONSIDERED AN AFTERHOUR EMERGENCY CALL, If you believe your complaint is one of the above please call the East Ridge Police @ 423-622-1725.
Please remember DO NOT CALL 911 for animal emergencies DO NOT call the East Ridge Police for a stray or a dog running at large. Stray animals or dogs running at large are not considered an emergency and no Animal Services Officer will be dispatched. If you have a stray animal please call the shelter and leave a message and we will run the complaint the next business day.
When making a complaint please provide the owners address if known animal description. This will enable our officer to talk to the owner and remedy the problem quickly.
East Ridge Animal Services shelter is a rescue friendly shelter, we gladly welcome all rescue groups to come by and visit with us at anytime. We have had several rescue groups visit. They thanked us for being so friendly and helpful. We could not help these animals without the help from these rescue groups.
Please donate to your local rescues!
Adopt a pet from East Ridge Animal Services
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