About the Richardson Animal Shelter

The Richardson Animal Shelter is an open facility that encourages anyone to visit our shelter as our pets look forward to daily visits and socialization by our volunteers and visitors. Our shelter is passionate about rescuing, protecting, and relocating pets to new homes. We also strive to inform and protect our community through the explantation of local and/or state laws and ordinances. Our shelter has received five Texas Animal Control Association "Humane Educators Awards" for its community involvement and education activities. 

Types of Concerns We Address:

  • Lost and Found Animals

  • Microchips

    Chip Your Pet

    • Our shelters chips here at the shelter for only $15.

    • 80% of all stray animals with identity chips will not be returned to their families because of outdated or non-existent contact information associated with the chip.

  • Rabies control and other zoonotic diseases

  • Vaccination requirements

  • Stray and/or abandoned animals

  • Unsanitary conditions

  • Neglected/abused animals

  • Public education

  • Enforcement of City, State, and Federal Laws

  • Other animal-related issues

Click here to Book An Appointment; Walk-ins are available for Adoptions but appointments are Required for Owner Surrenders, Microchipping, Euthanasia, and Rescue Organization Partners

Adoptable Animals: The shelter places new animals up for adoption daily and operates on a first-come-first-served basis. If there is a pet who goes up for adoption on a particular day, the first person in our parking lot before we open gets the first claim. Some adoptable pets are not on the website due to health/legal reasons or they were surrendered and immediately adopted right away. If you are looking for a particular pet, you can consistently check our website to see what we have or Submit a wishlist and you will be emailed when we get that pet.

Lost and Found Animals: We do our best to help find your animal and return them to you. If you lost your pet, as the owner you are responsible for stopping by the shelter, making a lost report on our site, and calling us to make sure your pet is not at the shelter. We also recommend posting a lost report on social media sites daily so your post is not lost in the feeds. We are NOT able to hold a pet indefinitely so unclaimed pets will go up for adoption.

How Can You Help The Shelter?

Help donate to the Richardson Animal Shelter

You can support the animal by donating to our shelter. About 6 to 8 million animals enter pet shelters each year, and only about 5,000 shelters exist to help these animals. Your donations will help to purchase blankets, litter boxes, nursing bottles, and more to help animals in need.  We have a donation wish list and an Amazon wish list of items that will be helpful to our shelter pets. Click here to learn about Donations

You can also become a Foster or Volunteer (DDO Volunteer) as well. While the shelter environment is safe for our pets it can also be stressful. Foster and DDO Volunteers allow our pets to get out of the shelter for a while to increase their quality of life. Volunteers help the shelter and our pets' environments remain clean to help decrease the spread of disease and to increase the chances of adoption and return visitors. Click here to learn more info.