Juneau, AK
The founding name of Juneau's community animal shelter, established in 1963 and renamed Juneau Animal Rescue in January 2019. The organization still operates from the same Glacier Highway building, sheltering lost, homeless, abandoned and abused animals and holding the local animal control contract.
Call (907) 789-0260 for current adoption fees.
Fill out the adoption application on the shelter website, then visit during afternoon visiting hours to meet the cats.
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.
Yes, under a new name. It has operated as Juneau Animal Rescue since January 2019, in the same building at 7705 Glacier Highway.
Since 1963, when Juneau community members founded it to help disadvantaged and homeless animals.
Visiting runs 1pm to 5:30pm daily with the last visit at 5:15pm, and the office is open Monday-Saturday 9:30am-5:30pm. Visits pause Tuesdays from 12pm to 3:30pm.
Contact the shelter at (907) 789-0260 to ask about surrendering an animal. Animal control matters go to (907) 789-6997.
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