Ruston Animal Control

Ruston Animal Control 🐾 Welcome to Ruston Animal Shelter! 🐾
Saving Lives, Four Paws at a Time 🐶🐱 Live humane traps are available at no cost for use by Ruston residents.

The Animal Control Department supports the humane treatment of animals inside the Ruston city limits, through operation of the Ruston Animal Shelter, educational programs, and enforcement of City and State laws. Ruston Animal Control officers investigate cruelty cases as well as complaints about barking dogs, aggressive animals, livestock running at-large, or other nuisance animals inside the city

limits. Animal Control officers check these traps and tend to impounded animals on weekday mornings. Animal Control staff also removes dead animals from roads inside Ruston. Call Ruston Animal Control at 318-251-8685 Monday-Thursday 7:00 am to 4:30 p.m. and 7:00am-11:00am on Friday. For information about or to report any of the following:

•Nuisance Animals
•Dogs or Livestock running at-large
•Dead Animals
•Animal Cruelty
•Animal Bites

The Ruston Animal Shelter, located at 1212 McAllister Street, is open Monday through Thursday from 7:00 am - 4:30 p.m. And 7:00am-11:00am on Friday. People looking for a pet are encouraged to visit the Shelter and consider adopting from a shelter first. Shelter staff will be happy to provide selection assistance and pet care advice. You will need to agree to an adoption contract and pay a small adoption fee that includes a certificate for free sterilization of the adopted pet. Please contact Animal Control if you’re looking for your lost pet. We may have picked up your pet. There is a small boarding fee for reclaimed pets.

318-251-8685

1212 McAllister Street
Ruston, LA 71270

[email protected]

🩷COME ADOPT CRAYON🩷Hello. My name is Crayon. I am in kindergarten and I am wanted in 7 schools. Don't Ask. My teacher sa...
06/02/2026

🩷COME ADOPT CRAYON🩷

Hello. My name is Crayon. I am in kindergarten and I am wanted in 7 schools.

Don't Ask.

My teacher said, "Please draw a picture." Next thing you know, 14 crayons are missing, the class hamster is somehow wearing a backpack, and I'm sitting quietly in the corner acting just as surprised as everyone else. They say there are "witnesses," but all the witnesses are kindergartners, so honestly the case is falling apart.

I am a very smart puppy. Yesterday I spent 30 minutes looking for my tennis ball. It was under my paw. Last week I barked at a cardboard box until I scared myself and ran away. My report card says I am "a joy to have in class" and "under no circumstances should Crayon be left unsupervised with markers."

If you adopt me, I will protect your home from dangerous threats such as leaves, shadows, and the sound of your own refrigerator. I will also steal one shoe—not both. I am not a monster. Then I will follow you around while you look for it and offer absolutely no useful information.

Please adopt me. My teacher says I have a bright future, but she also says if one more glue stick disappears, she's calling my parole officer. ❤️🐶🖍️

Crayon's adoption fee is $150 (CASH OR CHECK) and that includes spay/neuter, microchip, rabies, and up to date on all vaccinations.

🩵COME ADOPT MARKER🩵Meet Marker, Marker is a German Shepherd puppy currently wanted in 17 states for crimes against inter...
06/01/2026

🩵COME ADOPT MARKER🩵

Meet Marker, Marker is a German Shepherd puppy currently wanted in 17 states for crimes against interior design. This fuzzy agent of destruction has never met a marker he didn't immediately steal, chew, uncap, and redistribute across multiple surfaces. White walls? Boring. Beige carpet? Oppressive. Marker believes every home deserves more color, and he is prepared to enforce that belief.

Despite being only a puppy, Marker has the confidence of a middle manager and the decision-making skills of a squirrel with access to caffeine. He can locate a marker from distances scientists do not yet understand. Hidden in a drawer? Found it. On a shelf? Got it. Locked in a backpack? That's a challenge, not a barrier. His life philosophy is simple: if it can be colored on, it should be colored on.

Adopt Marker today and experience the joy of constantly asking, "WHERE DID HE EVEN GET THAT?" He comes equipped with unlimited affection, oversized ears, and a criminal commitment to turning your home into a collaborative art project you never agreed to participate in. 🖍️🐾🚨

His adoption fee is $150 (CASH OR CHECK) and that includes spay/neuter, microchip, Rabies and Current on all Vaccinations!

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME?🐾I’m Camp. I was left in Lincoln Parish. I tried to act normal about it, like “haha yeah this is fine, t...
06/01/2026

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME?🐾

I’m Camp. I was left in Lincoln Parish. I tried to act normal about it, like “haha yeah this is fine, totally intentional,” while standing in the woods with the feeling of someone who just spent way too much money at Bass Pro Shop.

My forehead is so big, Lord Farquaad looked at it and got insecure. Like... me and Shrek be looking like twins. It's insane.

Anyway, I was picked up and taken to Ruston Animal Control, where I will be residing until further notice. So yeah. I’ve been officially downgraded from “lost in the woods” to “local government custody situation.” I’m still acting like I’m above it, obviously, but like… I am very much not above it. I am pretending this is part of the plan.

Please share this post so we can get this very important, very dramatic little guy back to where he belongs (preferably somewhere with snacks and fewer life-altering decisions)!

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME? 🐾Good Afternoon. My name is Tent. I am a wilderness explorer in Ruston Animal Control. I was found wand...
06/01/2026

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME? 🐾

Good Afternoon. My name is Tent. I am a wilderness explorer in Ruston Animal Control. I was found wandering the great outdoors of Lincoln Parish.

I’m a Bassett hound puppy built like a camping chair somebody forgot to finish assembling. My body is tiny, but my head is the size of a cursed harvest moon. That thing has its own weather system. Campers gather around it for shade.

If you hear soft footsteps and a deeply exhausted sigh echoing through the trees at night, that’s just me continuing my important search for whoever is responsible for attaching this gargantuan head to such a financially and logistically unprepared body.

Please help me find my Troop leader, and my home I strayed from trying to find marshmallows, by sharing this post!

🩷COME ADOPT WONDERWOMAN🩷Meet Wonder Woman, a German Shepard who looks like she guards top-secret government facilities b...
05/30/2026

🩷COME ADOPT WONDERWOMAN🩷

Meet Wonder Woman, a German Shepard who looks like she guards top-secret government facilities but is actually scared of plastic bags and her own farts. 🫠

Her biggest daily challenge is dealing with the emotional trauma of being told to "move over." 😔 This little lady is sweeter than a Kindergarten Valentine's Day party and will follow her humans around like a lost unpaid intern.

She's searching for a home with lots and lots of snacks, soft beds, and people willing to accept that personal space no longer exists. Side effects of adopting may include (but not limited to) unlimited laughter, fur in your coffee, and being supervised like it's her 9-5 job.

Her adoption fee is $150 (CASH OR CHECK) and that includes spay/neuter, microchip, UTD on all vaccinations, and Rabies.

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME?🐾This little pup who we've been calling Iceberg has more attitude than fluff and was found in Ruston. I...
05/29/2026

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME?🐾

This little pup who we've been calling Iceberg has more attitude than fluff and was found in Ruston.

If you know someone who has a lost a furball, please let them know that their baby is here..."avoiding responsibility"...at Ruston Animal Control. 👀

Extremely cute... currently freeloading...and emotionally available, please share this post to help him find his perfect home.

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME? 🐾This little opiniated puppy that we've been calling Glacier was found and picked up in Ruston! Sitting...
05/29/2026

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME? 🐾

This little opiniated puppy that we've been calling Glacier was found and picked up in Ruston! Sitting like the little gentleman he is, he awaits his return to his forever home.

If you know someone who is missing their little fur ball, please let them know we have them safe and sound here at the Ruston Animal Shelter!

If not, please help this little man find his home by sharing this ✨top-notch✨ adorable post!

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME? 🐾This sweet little pupper who we've been calling Marker was found in Lincoln Parish, and we believe he ...
05/28/2026

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME? 🐾

This sweet little pupper who we've been calling Marker was found in Lincoln Parish, and we believe he belongs to someone special!

If you know someone who is missing this little one, please let them know that we have their furry baby here at the shelter safe and sound!

If not, we would greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word! Please share this post to help him find his family!!

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME🐾This cute little pup who we've been calling Crayon was found in Lincoln Parish, and we believe she belon...
05/28/2026

🐾DO YOU KNOW ME🐾

This cute little pup who we've been calling Crayon was found in Lincoln Parish, and we believe she belongs to someone special!

If you know who this pup belongs to, please let them know we have their furry baby, safe and sound!

If not, we would greatly appreciate your help in spreading the word. Please share this post to help us find her family!

🩵A D O P T E D ! ! !🩵Meet Twinkle Toes: a trembling little breadstick with trust issues and fabulous hair. He walks like...
05/25/2026

🩵A D O P T E D ! ! !🩵

Meet Twinkle Toes: a trembling little breadstick with trust issues and fabulous hair. He walks like a substitute teacher entering a middle school classroom for the first time.

At first, this little man can be shy. He may stare at you from across the room like you owe him money. But the second you pick him up? Boom. Instant baby mode activated. Suddenly he’s melting into your arms like warm butter on toast.

His hobbies include dramatic sighing, tactical blanket burrowing, and collapsing onto his back for emergency belly rubs like a tiny fuzzy possum. If you stop petting him too early, he will look personally betrayed.

Twinkle Toes is searching for a forever home with soft blankets, gentle humans, and someone willing to accept that this tiny man is both emotionally delicate and somehow convinced he could defeat a bear in combat.

His adoption fee is $150 (CASH OR CHECK) and that includes microchip, spay/neuter, rabies and up to date on all vaccinations!

Address

1212 McAllister Street
Ruston, LA
71270

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 7am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 7am - 4:30pm
Thursday 7am - 4:30pm
Friday 7am - 11am

Telephone

3182518685

Website

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