EVACC is an open-intake shelter serving the city of Evansville and Vanderburgh County and whose responsibility is to ensure public and pet safety through a variety of services. This includes investigation, enforcement, and citations for violation of city and county animal control ordinances. The agency also provides stray animal capture and care, deceased animal removal, and quarantine of bite case animals per Indiana code. Additionally, the shelter offers lost and found services new pet adoptions. Per year, it shelters approximately 5,000 dogs, cats, and other animals with a staff of 7 animal control officers and 3 administrative personnel. Evansville-Vanderburgh Animal Care and Control is dedicated to providing integrated animal service programs built on public safety and awareness, promotion of responsible pet adoption and ownership, and enforcement of the City-County animal control ordinances.
Adopting a friend
We always have a wonderful selection of loving pets that need a forever home. Our community depends on us just as we depend on our community to make sure great pets get out of bad situations and into the arms of great people.
With adoption, new pet parents receive a voucher for spay/neuter and rabies shot and a city license. We also offer micro-chipping for new adoptions from the shelter (and a reduced lifetime city license rate) to help keep your new loved one safe for his or her lifetime! If your new pet is already spayed or neutered, your total adoption fee is also reduced.
The total adoption costs range from $20 to $100 depending on whether your new addition to your family is a cat or dog, spayed or neutered, lives in the city, and is or needs to be microchipped.
Come Visit Us!
North - Go south on Highway 41 and take the IN-66/Diamond Avenue ramp. Merge onto N. Fares Avenue/US-41. Turn right onto IN-66/Diamond Avenue. After 1.9 miles, turn left onto N. First Avenue. Turn right onto Uhlhorn Street.
South - Go north on Highway 41 and take the IN-66/Diamond Avenue ramp. Turn right onto IN-66/Diamond Avenue. After 2.1 miles, turn left onto N. First Avenue. Turn right onto Uhlhorn Street.
East - Go west on IN-62/Lloyd Expressway. Take the ramp towards First Avenue/Martin Luther King Boulevard. Go straight as ramp turns into W. Division Street. Turn right onto N. First Avenue. After 1.1 miles, turn left onto Uhlhorn Street.
West - Go east on IN-62/Lloyd Expressway. Take the John St./Third St. ramp towards First Avenue. Turn left at the traffic light onto First Avenue. After 1.1. miles, turn left onto Uhlhorn Street.
Please don't wait to find your perfect companion and stop by our shelter, sign in, and take a look around. Uhlhorn is off of First Avenue (at the Goodwill Store) and off of Fulton Avenue (at the Corner Pocket). There is plenty of parking in our lot and on the street and we welcome you Monday through Friday from 11:00 am to 5:45 pm and on Saturdays from 11:00 am to 4:45 pm.
VOLUNTEER!
We are starting a new volunteer program too! If you would like to be involved please email Shannon at shannon_edwards@bellsouth.net, call (937) 564-0029, or use the links below to contact us
