CONTACT
T: 618.244.8024
E: jeffcoac@att.net
Office/Mailing Address:
107 E. Perkins
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864
Adoption Hours: Monday-Friday, 10:30am - 3:45pm
OVERVIEW
Jefferson County Animal Control is an indespensible county department providing the following services:
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Controling animals running at large (dogs and cats)
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Protecting the public from dangerous or vicious animals
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Conducting wellbeing checks such as neglect, abandon and abuse
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Picking up stray, unwanted and feral animals running at-large
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Assisting Hospitals with animal bites in order to prevent rabies
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Removing trapped animals for citizens (domestic or wild)
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Providing shelter for the pets of citizens experiencing emergency situations (ie, fire, flood, etc.)
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Helping lost pets find their way home
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Providing all services to all villages in the county to prevent animals from running at-large, except where the leash law does not apply in the county
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Working with State Inspector (ie, chickens and livestock complaints)
The Jefferson County Animal
Control is a non-profit organization that includes a county funded animal shelter. We are the homes for the animals who were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time or just surrendered by their owners. Some didn’t find their way home and were without an ID tag to reunite them with their owners. We get so many new animals in our shelter every day, they all have a very limited time to be adopted.
The shelter can’t hold animals until we find the perfect home, there are simply too many arriving on as quickly as they come in. Many people are bringing litters of animals in and do not have a chance . Keep in mind, this is a county kill shelter so animals have a very limited time here.
Although we do keep animals as long as possible to find them a home, putting animals down is a last resort.
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