Mobile County Animal Shelter and Animal Control
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- What it is
- Shelters and rescues
- Where
- Mobile County
- Status
- Open
- Checked
- on the official website, November 5, 2026
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County shelter and animal control enforcing the Mobile County Dog Control Ordinance: welfare checks, nuisance complaints, dog bites and attacks, roaming strays and injured stray domestic animals. Offers adoptions (spayed/neutered, microchipped and vaccinated), foster care, and lost and found with a 7-day stray hold.
How to reach them
Where: 7665 Howells Ferry Road, Mobile, AL 36618
Good to know
- How to get started: Call Mobile County Animal Control Dispatch at 251-574-3647 during work hours, or visit the shelter. After-hours emergencies (active attacks, aggression in public, injured animals, cruelty in progress) go to the Sheriff's Office at (251) 574-8633 or (251) 574-8634.
Emergency? Call your veterinarian or the nearest 24-hour emergency hospital now, and tell them if cost is a barrier. Emergency signs and poison hotlines
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More keeping your pet, end-of-life care and pet loss near Mobile
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