Franklin County Dog Shelter
Home to more than 300 dogs, the Franklin County Dog Shelter and Adoption Center is located at 4340 Tamarack Blvd., Columbus, Ohio 43229. Dogs range from puppies to adults, and from mutts to purebreds. The shelter's mission is to enforce the dog laws in Franklin County and keep the public safe from animal-related health or safety dangers. They respond to service requests, investigate complaints about nuisance, dangerous, and vicious dogs, investigate dog bites, impound stray and dangerous dogs, file criminal charges, make court appearances, and assist the police in crimes involving dogs, injuries caused by dogs, and dog attacks on livestock.
The Franklin County Dog Shelter provides compassionate care for impounded animals at the shelter, as well as adoption and lost dog services to the community. The shelter also educates the public and teaches dog owners to be more responsible citizens. All dogs and puppies that are available for adoption are spayed and neutered, given vaccines, and microchipped. Their website is updated daily.
If a dog is lost in Franklin County, the first place to look is the dog shelter. All dogs over 3 months old must be licensed in Ohio and dog owners can purchase dog licenses at the shelter as well.
The shelter is open seven days a week and is one of the largest shelters in the Midwest. This shelter does not euthanize for space, which means that dogs on the adoption floor must be adopted before new ones are brought out, however being an open-admissions shelter they are not no-kill.
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