Richmond Animal Care and Control

07/04/2024

We are hiring two Animal Control Officers (new positions), yay! Want to make a difference in the animal community, save lives and work to be the voice of the animals you save? Join our team!

https://www.governmentjobs.com/careers/richmond/jobs/4565178/animal-control-officer?pagetype=jobOpportunitiesJobs

07/04/2024

Happy 4th of July from RACC Alumni Saint & Fendi! ♥️🇺🇸 ♥️ Our shelter is closed today for deep cleaning (yay), and our Officers are on duty 7am-5pm. PLEASE for the love of all that is holy, keep your pets indoors tonight. DO NOT take them to fireworks display or leave them in your yard. We do not want to pick up your pet running stray or after they’ve been hit by a car. Keep them INSIDE. And have a happy 4th! 🇺🇸😂🇺🇸

07/03/2024

SlopePro will be sponsoring adoptions this weekend Friday -Sunday! ♥️ If you are thinking about adding a new bestie, now is the time. 🎉

07/03/2024

Calling all Lab lovers! We have our very own Richmond City Labrador, his name is Undercover Lab! Lab is about 8 months old and a lab-ish mix. He loves other dogs and has the energy to go-go-go! You can meet him today until 6pm or Friday 12-6, Saturday 12-5 and Sunday 12-4!

07/03/2024

Who loves BOXERS?!? We do! We do! Meet Cube Squared—she’s 5 years old, loves other dogs and passed her cat test. She’s a little exuberant and spazzy so we recommend a family with kids over 10yrs old. Her little nub tail and smooshy lips are to die for. ♥️ Email [email protected] with your home info and why you are the bestest boxer owner ever. Go Boxer lovers-GO!

07/03/2024

🎉🎉ADOPTED 🎉🎉 Next up! Meet Junebug! ♥️🐞♥️ This sweet buggy came from a not so great place and has been healing from skull fractures (draw your own conclusion, we can’t confirm yet). 💔 She’s 6 months old, 22lbs so will be petite, loves dogs and cats and is almost housebroken. Junebug needs a spectacular forever home where she will be spoiled and pampered and told how good she is 196 times a day. If you are that person, email [email protected] with your home info (other pets, kids, restrictions if you rent) and why you would be the best home for our Junebug girl.

07/03/2024

🎊🎊ADOPTED 🎊🎊Bulldog lovers unite! 🐾 These cutie smashed face lovers need a home today! Can it be with you? Meet What Happened to the Sun? (left, female) and Easy White Chocolate (right, male). Both are chocolate bulldog mixes who are 10 months old, sweet and submissive, love dogs and passed their cat test! They are available for adoption separately and just waiting to snort their way onto your hearts. 🥰 Email [email protected] with your home info (other pets, kids, restrictions if you rent) and why you would be the best home for one of these sweeties! Go bulldog people, GO!

07/02/2024

Get your RACC merchandise in our Bonfire store! Lots of cute items to include in your summer travels

100% of the proceeds benefit RACCF and the Tommie Fund. . The Richmond Animal Care & Control Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to supporting the agency's success...

07/02/2024

Happy Tuesday! Take a look at these stray dogs that came in between 6/25-7/2.
We ran out of kennels in our stray wards. Our strays are now overflowing into the adoption wards.. no more space for stray dogs😭 PLEASE if you find an animal, walk it around the area and ask neighbors etc, post on lost and found pages, hold onto the animal if you can and make a found report with us. Anything to try and find the owner first helps us!

Lost and found pages are linked below:

Lost & Found Pets - Richmond, VA
Lost or Found Pets in Chesterfield, Richmond and all over Virginia
Lost,found,sighted Richmond VA. and surrounding Areas.Help them go home
PawBoost
The Nextdoor App
Ring App
Or your neighborhood pages!

If you are missing your pet please come and check in person. You can also email [email protected] to reclaim.

07/02/2024

Happy RACC Team Tommie Tuesday! Raise your hand if you have a Tommie license plate. 👋 If our count is correct, there should be over 5,000 of you! Yippee! 🎉 If you don’t have one yet, never fear, if you live in Virginia click here—https://www.dmv.virginia.gov/vehicles/license-plates/search/teamtommie. You can learn more about Tommie here-https://www.raccfoundation.org/tommie-fund and see all the life saving that happens because of your support at RACC Medical Pics. ♥️ Go get yourself the prettiest license plate in VA and join the coolest club in the state!

07/01/2024

These cuties just came into and need names! Any suggestions? They are on their way into foster (not available for adoption yet). SO CUTE! ♥️

07/01/2024

Congratulations and thank you to Jones Veterinary Care PLLC for a huge vaccine clinic success today! Stay tuned for another date that our Foundation will sponsor! Hooray for immunity in the community! ♥️

07/01/2024

Happy Monday, July 1st and NEW fiscal year! Yay! We are so grateful to the City of Richmond, VA Government for increasing our budget by $500k for FY 25. 🙏 With that funding, we will be adding five new positions and support increasing veterinary expenses. Three cheers to this administration for supporting the life saving work we do! If you have time today, please email [email protected] to thank the CAO (Lincoln Saunders) and the Mayor for fighting our corner. We are so thankful! ♥️

06/30/2024

Wrapping up another week of great adoptions! Thanks so much to our new RACC Alumni! ♥️ A few long term residents found forever homes and our hearts are full. 🥰

06/30/2024

Let’s take a shelter tour at ! We are open today from 12-4pm and will have eggs on site at Furbish Thrift from 11-2pm today! Hooray!

06/30/2024

Join us again today to shop from 10-6pm at Furbish Thrift to meet adorable adoptable dogs (from 11-2pm) and gift 10% of your shopping expenses to our RACC Team Tommie fund! Yay!

06/29/2024

We are so saddened by the passing of our beloved friend, Kat Simons. She was such a loyal supporter of RACC and all shelters and rescues across Richmond. We will miss our weekly check in for our “Pet of the Day” segment on Mix981Richmond and offers to help us whenever we had a special event or messaging that needed an extra boost. She loved helping animals and we loved her. Kat, you will be missed ❤️

06/29/2024

Our longest resident has been here since February 10th.. 140 DAYS!!! 😭 Swipe Right, we love her dearly. She loves us, but HATES it here. If you remember we posted her previously after she learned to escape her kennel.
Swipe is perfect. Our volunteers and staff who have taken her out on adventures said she is calm and collected. She’s good on leash and listens well. Swipe is good with dogs that like to share space and she prefers to live in a home with no cats. Plus, her adoption fee is sponsored!
We are hoping this will be Swipe’s special weekend and she will finally find her forever home. 🤩
We are open until 5pm today and 12-4pm tomorrow!

06/29/2024

Kitten/cat adoptions happening today through 2pm at Furbish Thrift! Hooray! Plus so many wonderful thrifted things to buy! 10% of all sales benefit our RACC Team Tommie fun! Come shop till you drop until 6pm!

06/29/2024

Happy Saturday—we have beagles! RACC is open today from 12-5pm and you need to come adopt these cutie cakes! Meet Bernard (left); he’s 5 yrs old, likes everyone, has a healing broken pelvis but just needs limited exercise for another week. Meet Prince (right); he’s 7yrs old, likes other dogs but needs a home with children 10+ as he guards his food. 🙃 These boys are ready for a new home today and are not bonded, they are just cute so we took their pictures together. ♥️ Hope to see you posted in their adoption picture soon!

06/28/2024

Come see these available cuties tomorrow, 11am-2pm, at Furbish Thrift! Don't forget that 10% of their sales this Saturday and Sunday will go to our Tommie Fund, so be sure to buy lots of awesome stuff!

06/28/2024

🎉🎉ADOPTED🎉🎉
Who’s looking for a little Dachshund/chihuahua/cattle dog?! (wow that’s a mix) Teddy is 5 months old, neutered and up to date on age appropriate vaccinations. He’s shy at first but then pulls the reverse card and turns wild! He loves people, is nervous around dogs bigger than him and is loud all day. He’s PERFECT❤️
If you are interested in adopting Teddy, please email [email protected] with your home info (adults/kids/pets and if you rent or own) and take this cutie pants home today!

06/28/2024

🎉🎉ADOPTED 🎉🎉 Next up! Another broken and recovered RACC pup! Meet Zeus! This cutie was seized from a bad situation with a broken back leg. He is all fixed up and his little heart is ready to love again without any pain. 💔 Can you be his forever family? Zeus is 16 weeks old, loves everyone, needs another few weeks of restricted movement to heal completely but does great on leash and is a happy sweet boy! Email [email protected] if you are interested in adopting him and provide home info and why you are the best placement for this puppers!

06/28/2024

🎉🎉ADOPTED 🎉🎉 Great Dane lovers UNITE! Meet Baby! ♥️ This big beautiful girl came to RACC back in April with severe femoral and tibial angular limb deformities. You can see in the pictures how her back legs bent inwards and didn’t support her body. We weighed our options and discussed quality of life and decided to do one leg to see how she handled recovery. At any point in time, if we felt like we weren’t winning, we would euthanize. 😭 The surgery required for both legs was corrective wedge osteotomies, which is essentially cutting the bones and straightening it with plates and pins. Baby did great after the first surgery, and is recovering nicely from the second. We would like to find her a forever home today. She has 4 more weeks of stretches and slow walking to completely heal, but after 3 months in our care recovering, she’s ready for her forever people. Can it be you?!? Baby is 10 months old, loves everyone (literally), she’s the sweetest girl, great with dogs, kids and passed her cat test. She needs a home with people who understand large breed requirements and can continue her rehabilitation from surgical repair. If you are all of those things, please email [email protected] with your home info, detail your breed experience and how you can help Baby heal. We are so very thankful to donations made to our RACC Foundation that allow us to splurge and spend gobs of dollars on the chance that we could improve this big girls’ life. We definitely changed het life for the better! Special thanks to Dr. Barnes and Katie at James River Veterinary Surgery for fixing Baby! We are so blessed to have a community of helpers making these life saving choices a reality. Let’s find Baby the best home ever! p.s. actual surgery photos are on our RACC Medical Pics page for anyone interested-they are really cool!

06/27/2024

To infinity.. and BEYOND cuteness!
Buzz Lightyear is reporting for cuddles and kisses. 🫡💋 This chunky fella is a year old and wants to be your personal lapdog. He would prefer to be the only pet in the home but doesnt mind saying hi on walks!
Adopt Buzz and take a trip of a lifetime❤️

06/27/2024

*Adoption Pending* We love a story of courage. Meet Gator. A dog that arrived in our care scared and untouchable. The staff has worked hard to help Gator overcome her fears, and she is now ready for adoption. ♥️ She is still a little shy and unsure of the world, so we are looking for an adopter that can continue her socialization and help her blossom into her most confident self. Gator is a little socially awkward with other dogs but might be okay with a patient friend. Kids 10+ are her best fit and she passed her cat test. She is a 2-year-old lab mix. Interested adopters can email [email protected] with their home info, other pets, and any experience with unsocialized dogs. Let's find this sweet girl the best home!

06/26/2024

You might remember us posting her before, but these photos of Duchess are just too dang cute to not share! 😍 Duchess is only 11 months old and has the energy to prove that. But she’s missing something, right? Her leg! That does not slow her down at all. She loves other dogs and is social/friendly with everyone she meets. Her favorite thing in the world is puzzle toys!
If you’re interested in meeting Duchess, swing on by the shelter today before 6pm or 12-6 Thursday/Friday, 12-5 Saturday and 12-4 Sunday!

06/26/2024

Please share! We love Jones Veterinary Care PLLC! ♥️

****If you have questions, please contact Beau's Bridge Club via the e-mail address on the image. We are not able to return calls made to the clinic about this event.****

We are excited to be partnering with Beau's Bridge Club to offer a free vaccine clinic this coming Monday, July 1st, from 9AM - 12PM.

06/26/2024

Hello Wednesday! Does your dog need a bestie? We have so many dog friendly pups right now . Bring your resident dog(s) and let us help you find the best match. We have so many to choose from, we are sure to find a bestie for your bestie! RACC is open from 12-6pm today at 1600 Chamberlayne Ave and we hope to see you soon!

12/08/2023

⭐️🐾⭐️UPDATE & REWARD! ⭐️🐾⭐️
Remember the dog we posted last week who had been found dead and was tied to a fire hydrant at the corner of Rex & Corbin? Preliminary necropsy reports show the dog was spayed and likely died from starvation. 🤬💔 SOMEONE knows whose dog this is. Let’s help that someone come forward with information. Furbish Thrift; a program of the William A Harrison Jr Foundation that raises funds for local animal care organizations, is offering a $2,500 REWARD for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person(s) responsible for this act of cruelty. Anyone with information can pm here, dm , call 804-646-5573, email [email protected] or remain anonymous through Metro Richmond Crime Stoppers. Please help us!