The Orange County Animal Shelter is responsible for providing humane care to unwanted, lost or abandoned animals

Our mission:
•Protect the animals entrusted to our care
•Find permanent homes for lost or abandoned pets
•Promote responsible pet ownership
•Improve quality of life in Orange County


The Orange County Animal Shelter provides safe haven and vet care for hundreds of animals of all ages and descriptions each year. Although we are a small shelter, we do our best to find loving homes for them all. When funds are available, we offer spay/neuter certificates that help pay for spaying and neutering your pets. Please contact the shelter directly to see if these funds are available.

Happily, we have had great success promoting our animals on Petfinder, and dozens of animals have been adopted by people who have come as far away as Maryland. We have also gotten volunteers who live in the Northern Virginia/Maryland areas who will drive down to the Orange shelter and take our animals to adoption fairs in Northern Virginia, Stafford and all points in between. Would you like to join them? If so, please let us know! The greater our reach the more homes we will find for the animals in our care.

Although we are about 1.5 hours away from the Washington, D.C. metro area, it is an easy drive. You can even make a day of it and stop off at country stores, Civil War battlefield sites and a huge mall complex in Spotsylvania/Fredericksburg. And after all, what is a few hours in drive time when you will be meeting your new best friend? If you need help getting here, call us for directions.