Fort Bragg Animal Shelter closing, Mendocino Coast Humane Society could expand into building

FORT BRAGG, CA, 5/24/23 — Fort Bragg Animal Shelter, the Mendocino coast’s only county-run shelter, will close July 1 or earlier amid efforts to cut costs in the county’s new fiscal year, according to Animal Care Services Director Rich Molinari. The eight dogs and three cats currently housed there are adoptable for free. 

County shelters provide care for animals with nowhere else to go — but Molinari explained that the coast shelter was averaging about 68 animals each year since the facility reopened in 2019, as opposed to around 130 animals coming into Animal Care Services’ shelter in Ukiah each month.