Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services

12/03/2024

Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services helps send hard-to-place dogs to rescues.

Titan, a 90-pound Alaskan Malamute mix is a sweetheart. But few people come into BACS looking for a giant Nordic-breed dog. After a month without any interest, FoBACS paid for Titan’s transfer to a rescue organization in far Northern California with a 100% adoption success rate for our dogs.

Please support FoBACS on this Giving Tuesday: https://www.friendsofbacs.org/donate

Thank you!

12/03/2024

Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services helps BACS send our hard-to-place dogs to rescues.

Titan, a 90-pound Alaskan Malamute mix is a sweetheart. But few people come into BACS looking for a giant Nordic-breed dog. After a month without any interest, FoBACS paid for Titan's transfer to a rescue organization in far northern California with a 100% adoption success rate for our dogs.

Please support FoBACS on this Giving Tuesday and help us continue to find homes for our hard-to-place dogs: https://www.friendsofbacs.org/donate

12/02/2024

Help us help them! Giving Tuesday is TOMORROW!

Our nonprofit group, Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services, helps support the vital work we do serving the communities of Berkeley, Piedmont, Emeryville, and Albany. You can back them in these efforts by donating – every little bit helps and your much-needed dollars go toward medical care, kennel enrichment, playgroups, adoption promotion, and other programs that make a real difference in the lives of our animals.

Give here: https://www.friendsofbacs.org/donate.

As an open-admission city shelter, we provide a much-needed resource for stray, surrendered, and abandoned animals to have another shot at a safe and happy home life. Your financial support helps us go above and beyond for cats, dogs, and other animals, and we deeply appreciate it!

Happy Giving Tuesday!

12/01/2024

Welcome to Giving Tuesday!

Our nonprofit group, Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services, helps support the vital work we do serving the communities of Berkeley, Piedmont, Emeryville, and Albany. You can back them in these efforts by donating – every little bit helps and your much-needed dollars go toward medical care, kennel enrichment, playgroups, adoption promotion, and other programs that make a real difference in the lives of our animals. Give today and the Partnership Fund will match you dollar-for-dollar up to $5,000.

Give here: https://www.friendsofbacs.org/donate.

If you're not able to donate financially, we could still use your help! Please consider signing up as a volunteer at Berkeley Animal Care Services. Learn more here: https://berkeleyca.gov/community-recreation/volunteering/volunteer-animal-shelter.

As an open-admission city shelter, we provide a much-needed resource for stray, surrendered, and abandoned animals to have another shot at a safe and happy home life. Your financial support helps us go above and beyond for cats, dogs, and other animals, and we deeply appreciate it!

Happy Giving Tuesday!

10/23/2024

Come by to purchase items in the gift shop made by (who has a BACS alum of her own!) Now through November 2nd! For every $1 sticker sold, 70 cents will go to the shelter. A portion of the sales from other items benefit the shelter too. Thank you for your support!

10/05/2024

Empty the Shelters is back! 🎉💚💙

Our nation’s shelters are facing an overcapacity crisis, with 322,000 more pets entering the system than leaving this year. Adoption is needed now more than ever to save lives! BISSELL Pet Foundation's Fall National Empty the Shelters™ event will occur from Oct. 1-15 and we are one of the participating organizations!

Help us take as many pets as possible from shelter kennels to the couches of loving homes by bringing home a spayed/neutered, vaccinated and microchipped pet for $50 or less!

Learn more here: https://www.bissellpetfoundation.org/programs/empty-the-shelters/

09/07/2024

TOMORROW!

BACS is participating in Bark and Meow Around the Block hosted by ! The largest single-location adoption event in California! We will have adoptable dogs and cats available at the event.

Free to attend with waived or reduced adoption fees, free pet vaccines and microchips, and so much more!

Saturday, September 7th 10am-4pm
2700 9th Street, Berkeley

09/06/2024

🎉🎉 HAPPENING TOMORROW! We’re thrilled to announce that we’ll be participating in Berkeley Humane's Bark (& Meow) Around The Block event, their largest annual adopt-a-thon and family-friendly street fair 🐾

Save the date for Saturday, September 7, 2024, and come visit us at 2700 Ninth St. in Berkeley for an amazing day. This free, outdoor event will showcase hundreds of adoptable animals from shelters and rescues throughout the Bay Area, along with live music, tasty food, pet vendors, and more. Don’t miss out: https://berkeleyhumane.org/events/bark-and-meow

08/30/2024

is here! and are matching donations weekly, and we need your support! Donate now to help us save as many pets as possible: https://donate.clearthesheltersfund.org/page/BerkeleyAnimalCareService

💰 Starting Tuesday, September 3 at 1 p.m. ET, Hill’s Pet Nutrition will be matching donations dollar for dollar, up to $20,000! Once the 20K is met, the match is over. Donate today to help us save lives!

08/08/2024

Berkeley Animal Care Services is participating in Clear The Shelters, a nationwide campaign to get animals out of shelters.

Visit ClearTheShelters.com to Find Participating Shelters or Donate from Aug. 1 to Sept. 30

05/30/2024

For one day only!!! Together with Cal Animals and ASPCA, adoptions will be free THIS Saturday June 1st!

🐾 Berkeley Animal Care Services, 1 Bolivar Dr. Berkeley, CA
⏰ Sat: 10am - 4pm
📧 Email: [email protected] or call
(510) 981-6600

05/24/2024

You too can sponsor a kennel in honor of your favorite furry friend... or anyone else!

https://www.friendsofbacs.org/sponsor-a-kennel

In 2014 Morrchik was allowed to walk the hall of the cat kennels for a drink in the sink while he waited for a home at Berkeley Animal Care Services. Now a photo of Morrchik faces the large shelter kennel in which he was housed.

I adopted Morrchik, then known as Holstein, from this Berkeley municipal animal shelter in October 2014 and the following year began sponsoring a kennel as a small way to help other shelter cats. Every little bit counts.
🐾🐾 Friends of Berkeley Animal Care Services

05/02/2024

BACS will be participating in the nationwide “Empty The Shelters” adoption event hosted by BISSELL Pet Foundation! The event is from May 1st-15th. FEES WAIVED! BISSELL Pet Foundation Cathy Bissell

BACS will be participating in the nationwide “Empty The Shelters” adoption event hosted by BISSELL Pet Foundation! The event is from May 1st-15th. FEES WAIVED!

Pictured: Soldier and Butters

05/01/2024

Kitten season is here! Here are the steps to take if you find kittens in Berkeley, Emeryville, Albany or Piedmont.

04/17/2024

A combination of temperate weather and feral cats in heat creates the perfect conditions for an influx of kittens every spring. Many animal shelters and rescue organizations are already stretched thin, making it even more difficult for them to help these newborn kittens. Pet Food Express we’ll be collecting funds through Sunday April 28 both in-store and online. If you are interested in helping or curious, please go to https://www.petfood.express/kitten-season/

03/27/2024

Follow Berkeley Animal Care Services for more adoption updates!

To start off the week we have a happy adoption story! After a short stint in foster, this couple drove all the way from Sacramento to meet Star. They immediately had a connection and decided to make it official! Congrats Star on your new family!

03/17/2024

Adoption fees are waived all month! Come meet your new best friend!

🐾 Berkeley Animal Care Services, 1 Bolivar Dr.
⏰ Mon - Sat: 10am - 4pm with extended hours on Wednesday until 7pm.
⏰ Sundays: 11am to 3pm
📧 Email: [email protected] or call (510) 981-6600

03/15/2024

No-fee adoptions all month long! Come meet you new best friend at BACS!

🐾 Berkeley Animal Care Services, 1 Bolivar Dr.
⏰ Mon - Sat: 10am - 4pm with extended hours on Wednesday until 7pm.
⏰ Sundays: 11am to 3pm
📧 Email: [email protected] or call (510) 981-6600