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Mission:The Tallahassee-Leon Community Animal Service Center (TLCASC) ensures public safety and the welfare of animals by enforcing animal control regulations and by providing a secure, healthy environment for animals in its care.

Vision: The Tallahassee-Leon Community Animal Service Center seeks to enhance and enrich the community by providing the best animal-care facility and services in the nation.

• Investigates reports of animal cruelty

• Enforces animal control regulations

• Responds to complaints about dangerous or nuisance animals

• Rescues animals in distress

• Provides humane care for over 10,000 animals impounded each year

• Provides microchip ID for pets adopted from the center

• Helps people find lost pets

• Seeks homes for stray animals

• Humanely euthanizes animals that cannot be adopted

• Coordinates foster homes as resources allow

• Provides humane euthanasia, at an owner’s request, for terminally ill pets

• Educates the public about responsible pet ownership