Front Street Animal Shelter (City of Sacramento)
You’re viewing Front Street Animal Shelter (City of Sacramento) on Help My Pet.
Help My Pet is a free, independent guide that helps pet parents find care they can afford and ways to pay for it. Listings are free and can’t be bought. Families find this page in our Sacramento guide and through our Near You search.
Is everything right? Check the phone number, address, hours and who can use it, below.
Want your page to say more? Tell us anything that would help families who find you: services we didn’t list, languages you speak, what to bring or know before calling, how busy you are, how you’d describe yourselves. We’ll add it to your page. You can also just reply to our email.
Hours: Open 7 days a week, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Not a 24-hour facility.
- What it is
- Shelters and rescues
- Who it helps
- Serves the City of Sacramento.
- Where
- City of Sacramento
- Status
- Open
- Checked
- on the official website, November 5, 2026
Need help paying for your pet’s care? Ways to pay a vet bill in California · Get a free funding plan
← Pet help in Sacramento · All help in California
The City of Sacramento's animal shelter. It shelters lost and stray animals, enforces local and state animal welfare laws, and runs adoption, foster, lost-and-found, pet licensing and Home To Home rehoming programs.
How to reach them
Where: 2127 Front Street, Sacramento, CA 95818
Hours: Open 7 days a week, 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm. Not a 24-hour facility.
Good to know
- Who can use it: Serves the City of Sacramento. Adoption is open to the public.
- How to get started: Visit the shelter and join the electronic waitlist on site (it opens at 11:30 am). City residents can call 311; callers outside the city limits use 916-808-5011. For a sick or injured stray after hours, contact 311.
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
If cost is the barrier: Paying for Care compares grants, payment plans and fundraising, and a free funding plan puts them together for your pet.
Also from this organization
- Front Street Animal Shelter Free Vaccination and Microchip Clinic · Sacramento
- Front Street Community Spay and Neuter Voucher Program · Sacramento
- Titanic's Pet Food Pantry at Front Street Animal Shelter · Sacramento
More keeping your pet, end-of-life care and pet loss near Sacramento
- Sacramento SPCA - Animal Intake (surrender and found pets) · Sacramento · 8 mi
- Sacramento County Animal Shelter · Sacramento · 9 mi
- Yolo County Animal Services Shelter (Woodland) · Woodland · 14 mi
- Elk Grove Animal Services Shelter · Elk Grove · 15 mi
- UC Davis Veterinary Hospital Pet Loss Support · Davis · 16 mi
Other help near Sacramento
- Low-cost care Mercer Veterinary Clinic (and Davis Pet Advocacy and Wellness, DPAW) · Sacramento · 2 mi
- Pet food Sacramento County Animal Care - Pet Pantry · Sacramento · 2 mi
- Vet clinic Sacramento County PAWS (Pet Aid and Wellness Services) Mobile Clinic · Sacramento · 2 mi
- Emergency VCA Mueller Pet Medical Center (24-Hour) · Sacramento · 6 mi
- Spay/neuter Sacramento SPCA - Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic · Sacramento · 8 mi
- Vet bills Placer SPCA SOS Program (Financial Assistance) · Roseville · 17 mi
Every listing in the Sacramento guide → · All 496 programs in California →