Each year more than 20,000 animals end up at the County’s animal shelter. Most are discarded by their owners or lost, and many are impounded by shelter staff because of abuse, neglect or abandonment. Significant numbers arrive at the shelter unaltered, sick or injured, and funding for veterinary care and supplies is limited. That’s why there’s TEAM.

Together with Animal Care and Regulation staff, TEAM volunteers strive to:

1) Reunite lost animals with their owners and increase adoptions of eligible ones;

2) Improve public awareness of animal care and responsibility issues, including the importance of spaying and neutering;

3) Raise funds to treat and care for the sick and injured animals taken in at the shelter and assist with efforts to make shelter animals more adoptable;

4) Expand humane education opportunities;

5) Provide foster care and breed rescue assistance for all shelter animals.

Note: TEAM is not a shelter, rescue organization or foster facility for lost or relinquished animals. TEAM is the nonprofit support group for the Sacramento County Department of Animal Care and Regulation and focuses on fundraising and community education on behalf of shelter animals and related issues.