Columbia/Boone County Animal Control
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Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 7 days a week, except city holidays. An officer is on call after hours for emergencies such as bites, badly injured animals and loose vicious dogs.
- What it is
- More help
- Where
- City of Columbia and Boone County
- Status
- Open
- Checked
- on the official website, November 5, 2026
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Division of Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services that enforces city and county animal ordinances, investigates complaints and cruelty, picks up sick or injured animals, gives free rides home to identified pets, and helps with low-cost or free spay/neuter. Impounded animals are housed at the Central Missouri Humane Society, 616 Big Bear Blvd.
How to reach them
Where: City of Columbia and Boone County
Hours: 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., 7 days a week, except city holidays. An officer is on call after hours for emergencies such as bites, badly injured animals and loose vicious dogs.
Good to know
- How to get started: Call 573-449-1888, including for after-hours emergencies and to arrange release of an impounded pet.
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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- Vet clinic University of Missouri Veterinary Health Center - Small Animal Hospital (Community Practice) · Columbia · under 1 mi
- Spay/neuter The Spay Neuter Project (No Kill Columbia) · Columbia · 1 mi