Our Mission: To ensure the health, safety, and welfare of the animals and people we serve through proactive intervention, effective enforcement, collaboration, education, and the compassionate care and rehoming of sheltered animals.
Santa Barbara County operates two shelters in the County: Goleta/Santa Barbara & Santa Maria.
Create an alert, and we'll notify you every time a new pet comes in who meets your criteria.
5473 Overpass Road
Goleta, CA 93111
Create an alert, and we'll notify you every time a new pet comes in who meets your criteria.
Santa Barbara County
Additional adoption info
Please review our adoptable animals before making an appointment to meet one of our dogs. The shelters do their best to have a posting of photos of dogs in foster and dogs temporarily away from the shelter.
You may visit our shelter at 5473 Overpass Road, Goleta, CA Monday - Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:45 p.m with adoption hours from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Our shelters are closed for lunch from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Our volunteer adoption counselors or staff will be happy to show you any available dog for your consideration.
We also welcome out of town or out of state adoptions.
A dog adoption from the Santa Barbara Animal Shelter is $110 and includes a spay/neuter certificate, current vaccinations, rabies, health records, transition food, loaner items, goody bag, and a coupon for 4 free dog behavior training sessions which is funded by donations to K-9 PALS for the promotion of life-long homes for dogs. Dog license fees for your city or county are additional.
We are committed to being a resource for you for the life of your pet. You may contact our knowledgeable volunteers at any time with questions or reference needs for behavior modification, etc. We want your adoption to be "Fur-Ever."
Adoption application
County Animal Shelter,
5473 Overpass Road,
Santa Barbara,
CA
93111
4515 Gateshead Bay,
Oxnard,
CA
93035
705 E. Santa Barbara Street,
Santa Paula,
CA
93060
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