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October 2024 by El Brother Gt 502
I brought a kitten with me with the intention of adopting, they gave me a certificate after 4 days they called to come the next day for the kitten when I arrived I couldn't find the kitten because they sent it to a Foster Home And they said they could no longer give it to me for adoption
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October 2024 by Feliciano Jaubert
Treat your animals better!! This is disgraceful. They put this poor pup in a cage where he was being bullied by the other dogs, and this room is way too small for all of these dogs! Awful!
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October 2024 by L Rab
If you really care, get your animal microchipped (very cheap) and be sure to REGISTER it on the pet registry online (free). Ask the staff how to do it. ALL California shelters are overwhelmed, underfunded, with burnt out minimal staff.. Donate if you can. Volunteer to clean cages. Bring in a bag of food. To the negative commentors, My region doesn't even have a TNR program for community cats...they euthanasize everything that isnt a kitten or puppy. This Shelter DOES have a TNR program (trap/neuter/release) and is trying to make a difference!
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October 2024 by Audra Silveria
They had no desire to help me or direct me to where I needed to call. I’m a veterinarian trying to report an owned pet running on the freeway. They didn’t care and were happy it wasn’t in their jurisdiction. I’m sad I live in this area and having such an apathetic department .
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September 2024 by Paula Almquist
In the years 2022 and 2023, Riverside County Animal Services killed roughly 24,000 dogs and cats across all of its open-intake “kill” shelters. Riverside County Animal Services has among the highest kill rates in the nation, with 2022 being a record year for number of animals killed. This is unacceptable. Something needs to be done. Many beautiful, adoptable dogs and cats are being killed. I feel that the cats should be promoted on social media more than they presently are. There are a few Facebook rescue-
group pages showing lots of Riverside County shelter dogs available for adoption. Why not also have rescue-group pages that focus on getting cats adopted? In 2023 and 2024, I visited the Jurupa Valley shelter and saw adoptable dogs (and cats) that were not being networked online. Many of the kennels were filthy, with feces and spilled kibble on the floor. Some of the kennels had 3-4 dogs in them. I saw a small, brown, fearful terrier — in a kennel with three other small dogs — growling and baring its teeth. I saw a husky with beautiful, blue eyes. Days later, I found out that that husky — along with many of the other dogs that I saw at the Jurupa Valley shelter — had been euthanized (see included photos; all of the dogs in the photos were EUTHANIZED).
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September 2024 by robin gannon
I needed a second cat for my female spayed 8 yo sketchy cat, I ended up fostering three orange kittens 6 weeks old, I had lost both parents, both lived long happy lives but I was sad, also lost a cat and two small dogs to old age. I found a home for two of the fosters after enjoying them so much for two months and kept the one I thought would be best for my Missy (my cat) it was so very healing for me to foster and adopt my Milo (adopted kitten) best therapy ever in my grief and I love my new orange cat! Riverside was super supportive and took great care of us as foster parents and then adoptive cat parents. Highly recommend!
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September 2024 by Jenn
leaves dogs laying next to their own feces
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September 2024 by Nicholas Bonetati
Found a nice dog but unfortunately the home I took him to couldn’t keep him so I called the shelter she said I can bring him but that if they don’t have room they will be unable to keep him I understand but then when I was talking to her she hung up on me her customer service was terrible.
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September 2024 by Keely Fosters X
a man in my hometown released his three pet rabbits at a local park because he “didn’t want them anymore”. i called RDAS animal control and explained that i could house them but i needed help catching them. i was told my report had been dispatched and to expect a call from an officer. i waited at that park for 4 hours, never received any word from RDAS, and caught the rabbits without help.
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September 2024 by Frank Truth
DECLARATIONS OF NOISEY ANIMAL NUISANCES are handled ineffectively since the entire burden is placed upon the complainants with virtually no explicit direct contact with the offenders save an anemic general warning/information notice. The Department does not transparently communicate with the complainant. It merely offers to dump the matter on an independent arbitrator which involves a costly round trip to Riverside. The Animal Services Dispatcher, makes insufficient effort to communicate subsequent information to offenders in order to reach a mutually satisfactory conclusion prior to arbitration. The offenders understand how the bureaucracy favors their merely ignoring the anemic warning notice and buying time. Stonewalling. Clearly the Department prefers a velvet gloved approach. Meanwhile IDYLLWILD CALIFORNIA remains a community out of control with constant barking dogs 24/7. ARF, the local animal rescue organization, is of no assistance to the HUMAN population. We WERE donors. No more!
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July 2024 by Laura Torres
.very good
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July 2024 by Bill Creech
Got the best dog ever and the people were super helpful animal lovers.
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July 2024 by Jonathan Leon Hernandez
I called several times about a stray cat and a dog in the neighborhood dispatch Sarah said I had called after hours when I looked at the time it was 2 pm on Wednesday, today I woke up and found the dog dead in the middle of the street and the cat on the weekend had attacked a kid. Worst service ever this animal shelter needs to be reported and closed down
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July 2024 by Shawn James
They were very helpful in helping us out with their Fix and Release program for our Ferrell cats. We live in Fontana and get no service from the city in this regard.
The Riverside shelter has so far taken 8 cats/ kittens from us in two days and fixed everyone of them and will send them back to our neighborhood to be released as a part of their program.
We are very grateful for their help , especially when no one else would.
Thanks to all there for their help
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June 2024 by Chris Porter
Called about a aggressive dog on my block in Hemet and the dispatcher told me its nothing they can do!! This dog is on willowglen drive in Hemet!! Our tax dollars are going to nothing!! This has been a on going deal!!
