Pet Help in the Lafayette Area

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In Lafayette and need help now? For an emergency, go to one of the emergency vets below and tell them if cost is a barrier. To lower costs, start with the spay/neuter programs. For a bill you can’t cover, get a free funding plan.

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Emergency and urgent care

• Lafayette Animal Emergency Clinic (LAEC)
  206 Winchester Dr, Lafayette, LA 70506 · (337) 989-0992
  After-hours emergency clinic serving Lafayette and Acadiana for over 20 years, with an attending veterinarian always present. Offers oxygen therapy, IV fluids, transfusions, parvo and poison case management, in-house lab, x-ray and ultrasound, and emergency surgery.
• Lafayette Animal Shelter - Free 24/7 Microchip Scanning Stations and Microchipping 24 hours
  410 N. Dugas Rd., Lafayette, LA 70507
  Free self-service microchip scanning stations, run by the Lafayette Animal Shelter & Care Center with Friends of the Lafayette Animal Shelter, so anyone who finds a pet can check it for a microchip day or night. Stations are at the shelter, Lafayette, Youngsville and Duson police departments, Spay Nation, Paws and Paw Paws, Zen Dog and Grace Presbyterian. The shelter also microchips owned pets at low cost on weekdays.
• Lafayette Veterinary Care Center (LVCC) 24 hours
  110 Perard St., Lafayette, LA 70503 · (337) 984-7611
  Full-service animal hospital with a medical team on site 24/7, including holidays, providing routine and emergency care and critical care.

Spay, neuter and vouchers

• Lafayette Animal Shelter - Fix the Future Spay/Neuter Scheduling
  410 N. Dugas Rd., Lafayette, LA 70507
  The Lafayette Animal Shelter & Care Center can add Lafayette Parish residents to the schedule for the Bissell Pet Foundation's Fix the Future spay/neuter program.
• SpayNation for Dogs & Cats
  1640 N. Bertrand Drive · (337) 264-1088
  Nonprofit low-cost spay/neuter center for dog and cat owners, rescues and feral cat caretakers (feral/community cat surgery includes rabies), with a financial assistance option; referred to by the Lafayette Animal Shelter as the area's low-cost spay/neuter provider.

Keeping your pet, end-of-life care and pet loss

• Acadiana Animal Aid
  142 Le Medicin Rd, Carencro, LA 70520 · 337-896-1553
  No-kill animal shelter for dogs and cats in Carencro, rescuing animals most at risk, including those with serious medical conditions, and placing them through adoption and a large foster program. Accepts owned and stray pets by appointment as space allows and offers free microchip scanning and rehoming support.
• Lafayette Animal Shelter and Care Center (LASCC)
  Lafayette Parish · (337) 291-5644
  Lafayette Consolidated Government animal shelter and animal control offering adoptions (pets are spayed/neutered, vaccinated, dewormed and microchipped), lost and found, microchip stations, rehoming help, trap loans, cruelty and complaint response, and the Cats Clocking In working cat program with SpayNation. Lafayette Parish residents may be added to the Bissell Pet Foundation Fix the Future spay/neuter schedule.
• Iberia Parish Rabies and Animal Control Shelter (New Iberia)
  2017 Seaway Access Road, New Iberia, LA 70560 · (337) 364-6311
  Parish animal shelter and rabies control center that takes in stray and unwanted dogs and cats, enforces rabies and leash laws, handles bite-case quarantine, and adopts out pets that are spayed/neutered, rabies vaccinated and microchipped. Vaccinated, fixed feral and community cats are available free as barn or outdoor cats. Adoption fees are waived for seniors and military.

Paying for a bigger bill

Apply to more than one assistance program at a time. Ways to pay a vet bill in Louisiana lists the programs that are open now, and a free funding plan puts them together for your pet, with a free fundraiser page if you want one.

Every listing was checked on the provider’s own website. Know a place we’re missing? Tell us.