Animal Complaints & Concerns
Our Animal Resource Officers are available to help with emergency and non-emergency animal concerns or complaints from 8am to 8pm Monday through Sunday. If you are in need of assistance during these times, please call (919) 542-2911. If you are experiencing an after-hours emergency, we are available to assist. Please call 9-1-1 for all after-hours emergencies.
Animal Resource Officers:
Provide comprehensive and humane animal resources to everyone in Chatham County, using ‘best practices'.
Protect the public against rabies and other animal-related diseases, dangerous and vicious dogs, and damage and loss caused by dogs and cats.
Protect animals from neglect and abuse.
Provide emergency and disaster response for animals.
Dog and cat bite management.
Wildlife rabies incident investigation and follow-through.
Protection against “dangerous” and “vicious” dogs, based on reports.
Animal nuisance investigation and reduction.
Investigation and remediation of neglect and abuse.
Humane euthanasia when necessary.
After-hours emergency response.
Animal disaster response (natural and man-made disasters).
