Anchorage, AK
The Municipality of Anchorage's open-admission animal shelter on Elmore Road, and the largest municipal shelter in Alaska. It houses cats, dogs and a rotating mix of small animals, birds and reptiles, and every adopted cat goes home already sterilized or with sterilization included in the fee.
Cats already spayed or neutered $62; cats sterilized by the shelter $152; kittens under 6 months $195
Cats are spayed or neutered as part of the adoption. The fee differs depending on whether the shelter performs the surgery or the cat arrived already sterilized.
Fill out an adoption application at Customer Service or online, select a pet from the in-shelter board or the 24PetConnect listings, meet the animal in a one-on-one showing, then finalize at Customer Service.
Estimated by applying the AVMA's 2024 national cat-ownership rate (32.1% of households) to the county's real household count from the Census Bureau — a national rate applied locally, not a local survey. Population and housing figures are from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.
It depends on whether the cat is already sterilized. An already spayed or neutered cat is $62, a cat the shelter sterilizes before adoption is $152, and kittens under 6 months are $195.
Monday-Friday 12pm-7pm and Saturday-Sunday 11am-5pm. Showings run from opening until one hour before closing, so arrive with time to spare.
There is a 30 day return policy with a full refund of deposits. After 30 days a returned pet goes onto the owner surrender waitlist.
Owner surrenders are handled through a waitlist. Adopters also get a 30 day return window with a full refund of deposits.
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