About the Animal Shelter

We know making the decision to bring a pet to the shelter can be a difficult one. When things aren’t working out with your pet, no matter what the issue, knowing what to do or where to turn can be difficult. Delta Community Animal Shelter has lots of resources to help pets and people facing challenges.  Give us a call and we can help work out options with you.  

If surrender becomes the option, we will do what we can to make the correct solution for your pet.

Delta Community Animal Shelter through the City of Delta Property Use & Compliance (Bylaws) Division ensures that the community and its animals are not posing a threat to themselves or others and that stray or injured animals are provided with transport and medical care when need from 7am to 10pm, 7 days a week. Please call 604-940-7111 and follow the prompts to report your concern.

Should you required emergency after-hours assistance for aggressive animals posing a threat to public safety or sick/injured animals, please call the Delta Police Department at 604-946-4411.

The City of Delta & the Delta Community Animal Shelter do not respond to lost or found healthy stray animals after hours and asks that finders keep the animal safe & warm until regular business hours.

Please do not hesitate to report that you have found a lost animal after-hours by leaving a message on the shelter phone at 604-940-7111, via email, or the DeltaConnect Mobile App.

The Delta Community Animal Shelter understands the human-animal bond and that our pets leave paw prints on our hearts.  While we encourage pet guardians to liaise with their veterinarian regarding end of life services. In the event of a sudden passing of your pet, we are here to help guide you through.

Delta Community Animal Shelter, through our provider, Until We Meet Again Pet Memorial Centre, provide after life services via the shelter including private or communal cremation and provide a host of memorial products through them or SPAWTS.  

Please contact us directly and we can gently guide you through the process of making cremation arrangements that are fitting for you and your pet.

The Delta Community Animal Shelter believes that our community should live in harmony with the natural environment and that each Delta resident can become empowered with the realization that they can make a difference in preserving our wildlife habitats. Please leash your dog in sensitive habitat areas so that your dog is unable to disturb the many nesting birds and wildlife in our community.

Should you find an injured or orphaned wildlife, please contact one of the many wildlife care facilities available to help:

• Birds: Wildlife Rescue Association: 604-526-7275
• Mammals: Critter Care Wildlife Society: 604-530-2064
• Raptors: Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (OWL): 604-946-3171
• After-Hours: Animal Emergency Clinic of the Fraser Valley: 604-514-1711
• Marine Mammal Rescue Centre:  604-258-SEAL (7325)

If after speaking with a wildlife care facility, you need assistance with transport, please contact us at 604-940-7111.

Bylaw Inspectors with the Property Use & Compliance Division will investigate complaints related to dogs which may have aggressively pursued, attacked or bitten another animal, or a person. Once determined to be a dangerous or aggressive dog, the Delta Animal Control Bylaw applies several responsibilities designed to maintain public safety.

When an aggressive or dangerous dog is not in the home, unless restrictions are amended, it must be:

• muzzled and under the control of a person who is competent to control the dog
• within a closed and locked enclosure that has 4 walls, a floor and roof that the dog cannot get out of or a child can enter
• an increased licensing fee that helps cover the cost associated to an annual visit to the home by a Bylaw Inspector to ensure they have a clear understanding of their responsibilities and to provide support for rehabilitation of the dog

Should you require emergency after-hours assistance for aggressive animals posing a threat to public safety, please call the Delta Police Department at 604-946-4411.

• City of Delta's Engineering Department will pick up deceased animals from all Delta roadways and public streets. If you require this service, please contact 604-946-5334.
• If the animal picked up is domestic, staff will notify DCAS so that we can attempt to contact the owner of the pet. We know the heartache related to having a pet go missing and we want to ensure owners receive emotional closure whenever possible
• Provincial Highways: Mainroad Contracting is contracted by the Province of BC and will pick up deceased animals from provincial highways 99, 91, 17, & 17A located within Delta. If you require this service, please call them at 604-271-0337.

The Delta Noise Control bylaw states that: "No owner of any dog or dogs shall cause or permit such dog or dogs to make noise anywhere in the City of Delta which disturbs the quiet, peace, rest, enjoyment, comfort or convenience of the neighbourhood or of a person or persons in the vicinity".

Bylaw Inspectors with the Property Use & Compliance Division will investigate when a complaint is received from an area resident. They will attend the area, address the concern with the dog owner, assist the dog owner in finding root causes, and encourage bylaw compliance. Fines can be issued should the problem continue.

To file a concern, please contact us at 604-940-7111 or via the DeltaConnect Mobile App.

See information about "Barking - What Can You Do About It?" in our Resources & Education Section

All parks within Delta require that dogs be leashed at all times. Bylaw Inspectors with the support of seasonal Parks Patrol Officers in the Property Use & Compliance Division regularly patrol all of Delta's parks. The fine for a dog being unleashed in a Delta park is $125.00.

If you have a concern about a specific park that might require additional attention, please contact us at 604-940-7111 or via the DeltaConnect Mobile App.

View full list of off-leash dog parks in Delta.

The City of Delta is contracted by the Tsawwassen First Nation Council to enforce their Animal Control Bylaw and assist in promoting quality animal care within their community.  The Delta Community Animal Shelter will take animal control complaints on TFN Lands to be enforced by Bylaw Inspectors with the Property Use & Compliance Division.

To file a concern, please contact us at 604-940-7111 or via the DeltaConnect Mobile App.