New Animal Services Shelter!

The new facility is located at 971A Coffman Road, Whitewater, Colorado     

Mesa County Animal Services Moving Into New Home on May 2, 2010!

New facility will help keep us—and our furry friends—safer and healthier.

After 25 years in a small animal shelter that the community had outgrown, staff at Mesa County Animal Services is moving into a new facility.  As our population grows, the larger building will accommodate the county’s ever-increasing number of stray and unwanted animals.

How to Find Us: The new shelter is located on Mesa County’s 31 Road campus on Orchard Mesa. To reach the facility at 971A Coffman Road, take Highway 50 from Grand Junction toward Whitewater. Turn right onto 31 Road, and then left onto Coffman Road.

Mesa County’s goal in designing the new shelter was to enable Animal Services to provide animal control enforcement and humane animal care in the most cost-effective and efficient manner. Every room serves more than one purpose.   The facility’s training room where humane education classes are taught, also doubles as a behavioral assessment room and introduction room for families adopting pets. 

The new 7,700 square foot building has room to house the constantly-changing collection of dogs and cats that need a safe place to stay until they can be reunited with their owners, or assessed for permanent placement.

Initially, county officials investigated expanding and updating the old shelter on 28 Road.  However, with residential neighborhoods being developed nearby, there were concerns about negative impacts on area residents as the shelter population continued to expand. The new location is situated well away from any homes. 

It Takes Teamwork: Mesa County provides citizens with a cost-effective way to keep the community safe. But the county can’t do it alone. By successfully collaborating with state and local law enforcement agencies, animal welfare groups and local animal care providers, Mesa County strives to become a model animal community.

The 31 Road campus includes three sites dedicated to animal welfare. The new Animal Services facility occupies just one of those sites. In the future, Mesa County officials hope that the other sites will be home to other local animal welfare agencies, making it easier and more efficient to work together.

The staff at Animal Services hopes the inviting presence of the new shelter will increase public interest in responsible pet ownership and rescuing displaced pets. Please stop by, visit our animals and tell us what you think!  

 Facility Fact Brochure from Opening Celebration