Irvine - Company Profile for Irvine Animal Care Center

The Irvine Animal Care Center is the largest pro-humane animal shelter in Orange County which receives nearly 4,000 animals each year. The shelter is situated on a beautiful five acre facility that looks more like a park than an animal shelter. The IACC prides itself on mimicking a family life for the shelter pets that are temporarily in our care. Each pet enjoys a daily routine of having playtime in the dog exercise yards or the cat socialization rooms with their friends, going for walks with dedicated volunteers (or receive socialization from volunteers), and receiving high quality pet food from Science Diet. The shelter is also home to 14 farm yard animals including two goats, three pigs, and nine chickens. The farm yard animals were used for humane education and are now being pampered in their retirement.

The shelter?s innovative programs have not only helped to educate the community about the needs of homeless, abandoned, and abused pets but has also saved thousands of lives through our 3rd Chance for Pets program and adoption events. The shelter?s 3rd Chance program transfers happy and healthy pets whose time is running out at animal shelters to the Irvine Shelter for another opportunity at finding their loving and permanent home. The success of the shelter can also be measured by the number of animals that they receive that are reunited with their original owners: 43% of all dogs that enter the shelter are returned to their original owners (national average is 15%) and 5% of all cats that enter the shelter are returned to their original owners (national average is 2.5%). 90% of all animals that enter the shelter are adopted into new and loving homes or returned to their original owners.