Irvine Animal Shelter
The Center occasionally receives animals that have been injured, neglected or need additional medical treatment. The Enhanced Care program funds the treatment these animals need to become healthy and adoptable.
Foster parents provide temporary care for kittens, puppies, and baby rabbits in their own homes. This includes time, energy, and a quiet secure space away from any pets you may otherwise have. The center will provide the training, supplies, food, and equipment that the foster animals need.
Animals too young to be spayed/neutered are extremely fragile creatures with relatively low survival rates, especially when separated from their mother. Shelters, in general, do not have sufficient human or financial resources to provide underage animals with the specialized, focused, around-the-clock care that they require. As a result, underage animals are often euthanized in other shelter environments. The center aims to make a positive impact on this population by placing them in foster care. This is why a robust and hearty foster program is imperative to continuing the mission of saving Irvine’s homeless pets. With you they will be housed, fed, socialized, and cared for, until they reach a weight of two pounds and at least eight weeks of age. A nursing mother will accompany her litter into foster care if they’ve come into the center together. Foster parents bring the animals back in to the center every two weeks for checkups and for early vaccinations. Once an underage animal has reached its mandatory age and weight, and receives a clean bill of health, it will be spayed/neutered and made available for adoption. If you would like to receive information on upcoming foster volunteer recruitment opportunities, please submit your email address here.
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The City of Irvine is proud to support the Pets for Vets Act, a state law that requires animal shelters to waive cat and dog adoption fees for military veterans. Learn more at
The Seniors Helping Seniors program waives adoption fees for individuals age 62 and older when they adopt a senior animal. The age an animal becomes a senior varies, so adopters can look for a green senior stamp on a kennel card to quickly identify the center's senior animals. Click here for more information.
The Third Chance for Pets program transfers animals from overcrowded shelters where they may have limited chances for adoption, and brings them to the center for a chance at finding their forever home. Over the years the program has expanded to include rescuing animals from hoarders and disaster situations. Since these animals come from outside of Irvine, their care is partially funded through donations. Why the name Third Chance? Their first home was their first chance, the shelter they were brought to was their second chance, and the center is their Third Chance.
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In 2022, the Irvine Animal Care Center celebrated 40 years of care. As part of our celebration, we gathered our favorite photos and stories. Visit our 40th Celebration page for more information.Irvine City Council members approved a $25 million expansion to their animal care shelter with no discussion on Tuesday night after years of delays that would also reduce the total number of kennels available.
The shelter’s expansion will add a new clinic, renovations for the administration building and allow for sick animals to be separated from healthy ones, a major milestone for the shelter according to the city staff report.
The upgrades are coming to a facility that sees over 675 people pass through every week to consider adoptions according to the report.
Irvine To Build New, $25.9 Million Animal Shelter
But while the proposal is set to add nearly 10, 000 square feet to the facility, it will also reduce the total number of kennels at the shelter, dropping 30 kennels and leaving just over 100 spots available in the facility’s storage, according to the staff report.
Volunteers from the shelter who spoke at Tuesday night’s meeting were unanimously supportive of the shelter’s proposed expansions, pointing out the enlarged kennels will make it easier to take in bigger animals who won’t be as cramped in their cages.
“The staff and volunteers at the Irvine Animal Care Center are committed to seeing the level of service provided to the citizens of Irvine are first rate, ” said one volunteer. “The high quality of services provided to the Irvine community and the animals of the shelter will be ensured to continue.”
Irvine Animal Shelter
The expansion comes as county leaders are coming under fire from a grand jury report that said they’ve failed to properly oversee their animal shelter, as animal rights activists have said it was almost impossible to adopt any animals for years due to the shelter’s appointment only policy.
There are also plans to expand the Irvine facility’s Operations Support Facility improvements at a later date, but there wasn’t any detail on what that would look like or what it would cost in the city staff report.
The improvements are a long time coming, with discussions on improving or replacing the animal shelter starting as far back as June 2015.
Photos At Irvine Animal Care Center
The last time the project was publicly discussed was April 2019, when city staff said they hoped to have the proposed expansion completed by 2022 on a budget of $14 million.
“More recently, as we’ve worked to identify internal structural changes at the City with our new Project Delivery and Sustainability Department, we’ve had a renewed focus on delivery of capital improvements, ” Chi said. “We’re looking forward to implementing the enhancements at the animal shelter facility.”
Noah Biesiada is a Voice of OC reporter and corps member with Report for America, a GroundTruth initiative. Contact him at nbiesiada@ or on Twitter @NBiesiada.
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