SERVICE REQUESTS:
For comments, concerns or complaints, please call the Customer Service & Information Center at 3-1-1 or 706-868-3375 or, complete our Online Service Request Form.

MISSION STATEMENT
To provide quality customer service in all phases of animal control operations and quality care for all animals in Columbia County. 

 PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Animal Care & Control Department is responsible for all animal control operations, including nuisance complaints, animal cruelty investigations, animal attacks, handling of rabid animals, dead animals, injured animals, the animal adoption program, and taking care of the animals at the Columbia County shelter. 

IF YOUR PET IS MISSING:
If your pet is missing, please call our office immediately. Also, put a Lost and Found ad in the newspaper, and put up signs in your neightborhood. Everyone needs to keep an identification tag on their pet at all times! Also check our Lost and Found page.

 
Animal Care & Control Staff
(Left to Right)

ACO Ronnie McKinney, ACO Chris Weaver, ACO Lelia Partridge, ACO Russell Swann, Field Supervisor Daniel Mayne, Clerk Vicki Milford, Clerk Roxanne Franks, Kennel Tech Gail Briggs, Office Supervisor Joe Guerin, Kennel Tech Tiffany Peeples, Manager Linda Fulmer, Kennel Tech Rita Maddox, Not Pictured ACO Keith Evans

Animal Care & Control staff care for malnourished horses awaiting pickup by the State.