Animal Cruelty

If you live in the city of Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Murrieta, or Temecula and know of an animal being neglected or abused, please call the shelter at 951-674-0618 and we will send an officer to investigate. We can't help if we don't know about it, so please do not hesitate to call.

If you live in a county area, please call the Riverside City/County Animal Shelter at 951-358-7387.

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AFV provides animal services to the cities of Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Murrieta, and Temecula. The humane and animal services officers respond to calls from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Saturday. They also respond to all EMERGENCIES within the city limits of the above cities after regular business hours. (Please make sure that you have a true emergency before calling after regular business hours.)


Meet Your Animal Services Officers: (Front row) Willa Bagwell (executive director and state humane officer), Andrea Roberts, Jan Bratten, Sheila Risinger. (Back row) Laura Garcia (dispatcher), Monqunec Middleton (ACO supervisor and state humane officer), Danika Moldonado (license inspector), Jack Nelson (state humane officer.)

LICENSING

State laws and city ordinances mandate that all dogs be vaccinated against rabies and licensed at the age of four months or within thirty days of moving into a city. The city of Lake Elsinore also requires that all cats be licensed.

*60 years and older

Licenses can be purchased at the shelter Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
or at PETCO in Temecula every Saturday, 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

They also can be purchased at our shot clinics the third Saturday of each month
at Lake Elsinore City Park (near the gazebo), 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Or, click to print a license application, and send in with appropriate fees and certificates.

Potentially Dangerous Dogs

AFV takes very seriously our obligation and duty to investigate incidents that involve the possession of potentially dangerous dogs. The decisions made by Animal Control on behalf of the citizens ensure the health, safety and welfare of the public.

Food & Agriculture Code 31601.

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a) Potentially dangerous and vicious dogs have become a serious and widespread threat to the safety and welfare of citizens of this state. In recent years they have assaulted without provocation and seriously injured numerous individuals, particularly children, and have killed numerous dogs. Many of these attacks have occurred in public places.

(b) The number and severity of these attacks are attributable to the failure of owners to register, confine, and properly control vicious and potentially dangerous dogs.

Please be aware that Food & Agriculture Code 31602 defines a "Potentially Dangerous Dog" as:

(a) Any dog which, when unprovoked, on two separate occasions within the prior 36-month period, engages in any behavior that requires a defensive action by any person to prevent bodily injury when the person and the dog are off the property of the owner or keeper of the dog.

(b) Any dog which, when unprovoked, bites a person causing a less severe injury than as defined in Section 31604.

(c) Any dog which, when unprovoked, on two separate occasions within the prior 36-month
period, has killed, seriously bitten, inflicted injury, or otherwise caused injury attacking a domestic animal off the property of the owner or keeper of the dog.

Food & Agriculture Code 31603 defines a vicious dog as:

(a) Any dog seized under Section 599aa of the Penal Code and upon the sustaining of a conviction of the owner or keeper under subdivision (a) of Section 597.5 of the Penal Code.

(b) Any dog which, when unprovoked, in an aggressive manner, inflicts severe injury on or kills a human being.

(c) Any dog previously determined to be and currently listed as a potentially dangerous dog which, after its owner or keeper has been notified of this determination, continues the behavior described in Section 31602 or is maintained in violation of Section 31641, 31642 or 31643.

Potentially Dangerous Dog List

For the cities of Lake Elsinore, Canyon Lake, Murrieta, Temecula

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