Report animal issues
Field Service Division provides animal control services to the unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County including the Stanford Campus.
What we do
Santa Clara County Animal Services Officers can assist in the following:
- Pick up lost or displaced domestic animals
- Patrol for stray, roaming, or aggressive domestic animals
- Investigate animal bites
- Investigate dangerous dog complaints
- Investigate animal abuse and neglect, including livestock and exotic animals
- Pick up injured or sick domestic animals
- Assist with injured wildlife
- Pick up deceased animals within County jurisdiction and all expressways within Santa Clara County
Officers handle roughly 3,000 calls for service a year and cover close to 1,300 square miles of the county!
For nuisance wildlife concerns
For nuisance wildlife concerns please visit the County of Santa Clara Vector Control website, visit vector.santaclaracounty.gov
For injured or endangered wildlife
California Department of Fish & Wildlife at (707) 944-5500 or visit wildlife.ca.gov
Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley at (408) 929-9453 or visit wcsv.org
Education and Rehabilitation Center at (408) 779-9372 or visit werc-ca.org