SEAACA

We had very nice service! We were helped by Joey he was so caring and sweet. Found the perfect kitty to add to our family. Thank you Joey.

Thank you so much for providing your recommendation on where to get my two dogs spayed.
The Lucy’s Pet Foundation qualified my two dogs for a free spay.
Everything went great! Thank you so much!

One of my two visit was a good experience. Staff was professional on the first visit.
The second visit was to visit another dog for potential adoption. I found the dog online and called the same morning as was told by staff that the dog was still there and two other people were on the interest line. I immediately drove 1−½ hrs to get there. Upon arrriving I was assisted by a young hispanic woman who looked up the dog and non chalantly informed me the dog was claimed by its owner while twirling her hair. She expressed no concerned I lost 3 hours of my day to get there. What a waste of time. They should give the owners 2 – 3 days to claim before they allow adoption. Bad business and bad attitude from that clerk

Came here to look at dogs hoping to find one for my wife. The kennels are clean and organized, they have males and females separated on either side of the main hallway which is nice. They also have a paper on each kennel to give you info on the dog you’re looking at. I didn’t get a dog so I didn’t deal with personnel but I liked the place and would come back to look again.

We were turned in by our neighbors for feeding stray cats. Sea car came out said it is against the law to feed strays. We expressed that we felt two of the strays are pregnant. He said calls us and we will come out and get the babies. Well… We called this morning and we have to trap them put them in the box and they will come get them. Us trapping them was left out of Seaccas front door conversation. The lady was EXTREMELY rude on the phone when I called her this morning! Anybody have any suggestions! Can not stand Seaccas and their service!!!

The workers here are incompetent and rude. SEAACA IS A KILL SHELTER. But I’m just so curious HOW they «find» so many «stray“dogs??? Can someone please explain? It just boggles my mind how they have such a high turn around… I know SEAACA is a KILL shelter but euthanizing your animals EVERY WEEK?! First, I am completely against kill shelters. But if you are going to euthanize these perfectly healthy dogs, allowing them one week to live or to get adopted just isn’t enough time. Really, where are they getting these dogs from every week? Other shelters don’t have such a high turn around so I’m really curious. I do wish I could adopt every single one of those animals at SEAACA. This place is horrible. Animals in terrible conditions and I just still can’t believe they kill these HEALTHY animals EVERY WEEK! SEAACA, you guys are just terrible and insensitive.

Prior to visiting this location we visited many other shelters multiple times throughout Los Angeles and Orange County. In comparison, this location had the largest variety of dogs in terms of breeds in all sizes. It’s was almost concerning because I wondered where all the mutts, pit bulls, and chihuahua went.
Upon entering the facility we noticed it was small but clean. The staff was efficient and it wasn’t overrun with visitors and the cages weren’t full of feces. It was much better than the county shelter a few miles away. There was just too many people for them to tend to that were looking for lost pets, dropping off litters of kittens they’ve «found» (i.e. trying to avoid paying a fee), fighting citations, purchasing tags, etc.
We walked into the back area and puppies were in super small stacked cages, multiple small dogs locked together (3 – 5 dogs per cage), and large dogs in their own small cages. All without any outdoor access. Definitely not an ideal situation.
My concerns about this facility is how easily dogs are adopted. We weren’t asked any questions about our work schedule, the size of our yard, etc. Dogs were simply adopted on a first come, first serve basis. And the multiple times we stopped by here, there always seems to be a dog or two with kennel cough that is just kept among all the dogs.
There was also a lack of back story about the dogs. Many shelters have some background info, but it seems that many of the dogs were recent arrivals and haven’t been at the shelter for very long. Which is a great thing because this shelter is not conducive to a very long stay.
Our dog came home with kennel cough that took over a month to clear up and the incision scar from when he was neutered was pretty rough. He was super smelly (but we couldn’t bath him until his stitches healed), underweight, matted, and refused to eat days at a time. But today he is at a healthy weight, happy, and well-​adjusted.
Overall this is not the best shelter we visited in terms of amenities for the animals, but we found our little buddy here and we are grateful. And because this is a kill shelter, you are truly saving a life.

I understand its easter, i even apologized for calling on easter, but there is a stray akita mix on our block. It has been roaming for half an hour. I told the lady it being easter its dangerous for the families and kids today. She told me there was nothing they could do. Wait until tomorrow lol. What horrible service. How does that help anyone? Why have an emergency line if no one can help? Lazy and incompetent people

***YES this is a KILL shelter***
***SEACCA is currently being put under investigation for the «mysterious» disappearances of HEALTHY dogs***
I’d like to say SEACCA does a service for its community, but after some research I feel otherwise. The kennel facilities are dim and there’s not enough light so it’s plainly depressing. What’s actually worse is the fact that once you walk in it is very evident there isn’t basic efficient air filtration. It literally smells stagnant and like pee because they do not regularly clean up. Obviously multiple dogs sharing kennels and living in such close proximity to each other pick up illnesses. And because the air system at SEACCA sucks, the animals get worse. If you ever want to adopt a dog here please don’t shy away from adopting because they have kennel cough. It isn’t that the dog is a sick dog riled with diseases who will only cost you a crazy amount of money over the years with vet visits and what not. Nooooo. They’re actually just sick because they live in a poor facility. Imagine how your health would be if you lived there. Don’t give up on the animals here just because they had the bad luck of being sent to a poorly run facility.
That said, I acknowledge that in its foundation SEACCA is trying to do a good thing here. However, over the years, it’s quality has shot down. Moreover, the current director and overall facility is under investigation for the «mysterious» disappeared of animals, especially dogs. If you haven’t heard, please do some research and help advocate on these animals behalf’s. One example is of healthy rescue pit bull that was HEALTHY and after a few DAYS at this facility was found dead. The director of SEACCA will not allow for the poor animal body to be sent elsewhere to have studies done to conclude what happened.
One of the articles by a GREAT dog advocacy foundation:
If that wasn’t enough, the workers here are truly incompetent to the T. Just by looking at the available animals you can see that they themselves don’t know dogs as well as they pretend to because they mislabel the breeds. Moreover when you go in and ask them basic questions about the animals, they are clueless. They have no system of organization that supports employees actually keeping each other accountable. For example, I asked one of the afternoon attendants if they knew what food is being fed and the response I received was «oh I don’t know the morning workers do that». Really? You’re supposed to care for the dogs and you don’t know at the very minimum their FOOD?
If all that wasn’t bad enough, I’ve experienced how bad even the «vets» here are. I adopted a REALLY sick GSD back in December 2015 here and I literally was the one who heard her cough and asked the vet looked into it. Not to mention, when I went in to see the dogs and saw her in her kennel she was just laying there. Completely uninterested and unable to move. It was sad to see such a beautiful white GSD mistreated and no one giving her a second look. The next day I picked her up and the vet said she was fine for the most part just needed to take antibiotics. I brought my new friend home only to discover that she was in a lot of pain although she tried her best to be cheerful. She wasn’t eating and she was retreating to be alone. Two signs that demonstrate severe illness. So the antibiotics SEACCA gave me were utterly worthless and needless to say I had to take her to a vet and have her treated with antibiotic shots and boosters for approximately 7 days straight then followed by further antibiotics. It did cost a lot of money and I don’t regret nurturing my dog back to health. But I am angry SEACCA could leave a dog to just get so sick in front of their eyes to the point where she only wanted to face her end alone. If that isn’t sad I don’t know what is. Luckily she is happy now and although there is still some residual sickness, she is a million times better.

I give this place three stars only because the gentlemen that saw us to give her shots was nice and was willing to stay later for us (I didn’t get his name). Sadly, we were turned away because my puppy was «too young» in there eyes. «It was against there protocol.» I get it, everyone has different rules but what I didn’t appreciate was how rude the doctor was or whomever he spoke to behind a door so thin you could hear EVERYTHING. He had asked if it was okay to vaccinate my puppy and she basically chewed me out (indirectly). My puppy was 6 weeks old. She was already eating puppy food and the mother wasn’t even caring for her liter so I adopted a little earlier than 8 weeks. Big deal! I was trying to be a responsible pet owner by vaccinating. Whatever! The gentleman kindly put into words what the doctor had said and he advised me as to how to care for Leyla until she was able to be vaccinated and for that I’m thankful. I ended up finding another place a week later that vaccinated puppies as young as 6 weeks. I don’t recommend SEACCA. Sad, I really expected a different experience.
Also while I waited to be seen, the older lady at the front desk was super rude to customers. It felt like she hated her job. Pretty sad.

Seacca is so incompetent their workers and response staff are rude and extremely useless!! On 3÷1÷16 while walking my small Pomeranian another vicious unrestrained dog came behind us and brutally mauled my dog to death. The owner of the vicious dog said he wasn’t restrained because «he was trained not to bite anyone» so much for that. My dog died from his injuries and the other owner was issued a verbal warning for the attack his «trained dog» had on my dog. Seaaca this mauling could’ve happened to a human being and a verbal warning is your way of preventing these vicious attacks. Seaaca has no problem putting dogs to sleep that have done nothing wrong but when it comes to doing some actual work like investigating a mauling you look the other way. Best believe that you will be reported to all true animal watchdog agencies.

This place is the worst. Their employees are worthless, especially the phone operators. My cat is lost and I’m currently out of state and all I asked for is a little help if anyone, ANYONE IN THEIR STAFF can take a minute to check and they just dont care. They all say to come for viewing at 11am or come in Saturday or to send a friend, Im out of state what can I do?1? I’m helpless. I recently moved and temporarily left my cat in my fathers care, my cat got out and he hasn’t seen him in 5 days. They don’t update online the list of deceased pick ups or the living pets that arrive. Please make a Instagram and have a volunteer run it. Its not hard to care and possibly save lives, its cheaper than putting them down. THIS PLACE IS A HIGH KILL SHELTER, ALMOST ALL CATS GET PUT DOWN. If anyone is reading this please help me! I’ll send you pictures. I’m heartbroken. Help me find my baby boy.

Seaaca animal control had day at the park, to get my dogs vaccination shots in the rain.

SEAACA (South East Area Animal Control Authority) is a moderate-​sized animal control shelter located in Downey that services 14 surrounding cities. SEAACA intakes a fair number of animals and does euthanize for space/​behavior/​medical reasons. I have only seen dogs/​cats available for adoption here, but they sometimes do have small animals/​reptiles/​livestock. Animals are available for adoption on a first-​come, first-​serve basis, although interested parties can put their name down on a pet — the person who puts their name down first gets the first option of adopting the pet if s/​he is at the shelter on the day the animal becomes available. Most adopted animals will come spayed/​neutered, vaccinated, and microchipped — this cost is included in your adoption fee and is MUCH lower than what you would have to privately pay at an animal hospital. The shelter also offers low-​cost vaccination clinics and regularly updates the animal data base on their website. They are closed on Sundays.
This shelter is a little small and cramped. Cats are housed in cages while multiple dogs share indoor runs based on gender/​size/​intake. As the animals are housed indoors, they are protected from the elements, but it’s stuffy with poor ventilation. In addition, due to the number of dogs sharing a run, dog fights and scuffles are not a rare occurrence.
As always though, I urge people to adopt their pets from a shelter or rescue organization. This shelter usually has a good selection of dogs/​cats.
*** NOTE/​TIPS: Some of their pets may be sick. Kennel cough and upper respiratory infection are very common in places that densely house animals. In most cases, a round of antibiotics should do the trick. Regardless of whether your pet looks ill or not, take your pet to a vet after adoption! Don’t let their sniffles deter you from saving a life. THEY NEED YOU.

If you want to save money on vaccinations, come here. But expect rude old ladies that literally hate their job and make you apply the vaccines yourself.
The lady named Vicki was the «Doctor» that did my dog’s vaccination. She asked if my dog bites and I told her he hasn’t bitten anyone to my knowledge. Then she tells me to apply the vaccine by myself???
Seriously?
SERIOUSLY?!?
There used to be the sweetest lady here that made everything quick and painless. Now they hired this lady? And I’m paying them to do this myself?
I’ll go somewhere else and give a more deserving place my money. I’ve been coming here every year for the past six years and now I’m putting this place on my shit list. Not worth the time and money for the shit I had to deal with.

Horrible phone service, had me waiting on hold for 15mins each of the 3 times I called. I’m desperately looking for a lost dog and the least they can do is check back in with me to let me know that they haven’t forgot about me. When I went in the girls are chatting away which makes me suspect that they’re putting people on hold so that they can continue their convos. We aren’t calling to bother you girls, we promise we just want to find our lost pets or adopt an animal that needs a home. So please just give us just 5 mins of your time.

They are on it & professional. Thanks for the help & returning a chipped loose dog back to its rightful owner. I’m sure they will be very grateful

Came here over the weekend to look at adopting. I was pretty leery after reading some of the reviews but I was pleasantly surprised! The shelter was clean and full and the staff members we encountered were really great. Joey and Joey (easy to remember) were some of the guys that answered our questions and they were kind, gentle and honest. All the different techs working there were running their tails off cleaning, feeding, cleaning some more and answering everyone as quickly as they could. I would definitely come back here to adopt/​foster and I think the facility guys deserve a high five and some shout outs.

Find a dog? Well good luck trying to make that known to SEECA. You have to come down to their office to look through a book (yes a book) to see if someone has reported a missing dog that «looks» like the one you found. Explain to me what the hell SEECA is good for again? And what century do we live in where looking through a physical book is the only method to match found pets with missing reports. We can and must be better!

I recently adopted a 4 months old kitten from there. The adoption process was very quick and easy, which was great. The employees however are absolutely horrible. Not friendly at all! It saddens me that such a great facility can have the worst staff.

I’m appalled at the service from Seacca. My dog passed away this morning at 9am @ home. I called Seacca to have them pick him up. It is now 3:30pm and no Seacca. I’ve called them 3 times. Mind you that one of those times I called, the phone recording said they were closed and that was at noon. The second time I called I spoke with Julie. I might as well have been calling the trash pick up. She was condescending and rude. I asked for an ETA and she said «sometime today» in a sarcastic way and then she repeated it to me like if I was an idiot. Completely unprofessional and no regard for the fact that we just lost our pet.
If I could pick up my 70lb dog and take him myself, I would. I almost feel guilty for having Seacca come pick up my dog and take him. It is the saddest feeling of losing a pet and the stress of depending on these incompetent people make matters worse.
I hope and pray that they give my dog some dignity and do what they need to properly. I wish I had the means to cremate him and have services for him but I cannot.
Extremely disappointed with Seacca. It’s unfortunate that we have to depend on a facility like this and that based in other reviews, that there is no one really looking to improve their services.
I will make sure that I take my complaint to the highest level. Unilocal was only a start.

Pets are awesome
BUT #SEAACA #SouthEastAnimalControlAuthority
People try do good and adopt dogs to help and give a home to unwanted dogs/​pets. And then you send your thieving animal control officers BEHIND US to give citations $ 160 for not registering a pet. What happen to sending notification letters??? Note to everyone if this happen to you and they ask how long the dog has been living with you, say a year only or less… They cite you per year…
You guys are wrong doing this to ppl…

I love this shelter and was really sad when the vet services stopped. The vet saved a kitten I had gotten for my son from a different shelter. None of the other vet offices helped. Afterwards, I used their clinic often since I was a single mom. It was very affordable. When my cat went missing, the women I talked to was very nice as I was extremely emotional. She was nice enough to check the log and tell me if a cat fitting his description had been impounded. Luckily, we found him. He was just to fat to jump over the fence. I am thankful for the shot clinic as well as the vet services at a time funds were very limited. I really hope they have resumed the vet clinic. It truly helps is with limited income.

I dislike this shelter. First when you go in to look at the adoptable pets it smells so bad and they do not clean up after them right away. Second I called because a dog got ran over and died in front of me and it has been two hours and they just want me to leave it on the side of the road. Animals mean things to people they are not trash on the side of the road.

On the surface, this facility definitely looks much nicer and cleaner than many shelters out there. It still smells absolutely awful so just be prepared. Some of the staff are friendly and professional but others are a joke. Watch out for one of the vets-​the older, frumpy lady. She is often cranky and has a serious attitude problem. Not only that, she walks around like she’s drunk or off her meds half the time. How can anyone trust her with animals?!!
I no longer live in Downey and would probably not have even bothered to write a review for this place if it hadn’t been for the recent dog license renewal notice that I received in the mail. Somehow SEAACA was able to obtain my updated address and still sent me a renewal notice even though they could clearly see that I no longer lived in California! Creepiness aside, how incompetent can they be that they would «remind» someone to renew a license when they already know of an address change-​to a different STATE.
I wouldn’t tell people to stay away because all animals deserve to be saved/​rescued, especially if they’re not treated properly. I just hope SEAACA improves on quality and professionalism.

not the greatest facility, can’t compare to peninsula one up north in Burlingame
in any case, this is a county run facility, so unfortunately a kill shelter
I think its designated for a remodel in next few years, but it is what it is right?
dogs separated into two sections, male and female
they segregate them according to size too
a lot of dogs here… yeah, cats too for you awful cat lovers ;-)
being that it is pretty close to downey and Norwalk, you will find a lot of pit bull mixes and on the other end of the spectrum, Chihuahua type breeds
actually got my two dogs from here, just feel that better to save them than to go to a breeder…
I usually save and drop off newspapers for them here
be sure to leave a few dollars in donation box too!

We adopted our Roxy here and was happy about everything. The did give her a clean bill of health, but 2 days later developed kennel cough. What was great is we receive a credit to go to VCA and got her checked out. Meds, visit and treatment was all paid for. Roxy got better and we are a happy family!

This place is a joke. I’m not exactly sure what they do. Me and my neighbors found a kitten that was dying. When I called, the person on the phone sounded uninterested and somewhat rude.
We called TWICE and the kitten is still here. My neighbor’s kid nursed the poor thing back to health. They shouldn’t be able to continue on this way. Terrible. I’m truly disgusted.

I am very happy we adapted Winston from SEAACA but a few days after we brought him home he came down with a bad case of kennel cough. I know it’s a gamble with animals health from the pound, but I wish they could sanitize or clean the kennels better to try and avoid this. I’m reading a lot of other reviews with similar situations. If you adapt from ANY pound, watch your new pet closely for signs of illness. I recommend taking your pet to Park Community Animal Hospital. Their prices are the lowest around (I called 15+ vets). They gave my dog antibiotics and he is now a happy healthy dog!

Before anything this should not defer anyone from adopting a pet but I hope SEACCA works on their customer service… Ive been to the facility for different reasons (browsing, license, turn in a stray) around 5 times the staff is always rude. I purchased my dogs license over a month ago and during time of purchase, I was told by the officer that helped me I would receive my dogs license by the following week. 5 weeks later and I still haven’t received anything.
I also called to report two puppies on the onramp to the 105 E freeway. Before I could even finish my sentence, the lady on the phone just said «call highway patrol» seriously, you guys are animal control… YOU call high patrol and make sure the call is clear and check on the welfare of the animal.

Puppies available for adoption: $ 135 (includes vaccinations, spay & neutering fees, licensing, microchip)
Older dogs are just $ 55 for the whole package.
Multiple small or large dog breeds: chihuahua mixes, terriers, poodles, cocker spaniel, and a lot of large Pit bulls especially, etc.
Please support your local shelter–
The work done here is invaluable in reducing the stray and feral animal population.
And if you do own a pet, please spay or neuter them — it’s proven to make their lives less stressful ((no fighting for example over an animal in heat, no fighting means no injuries)).
Not for the faint of heart — I’d be an animal hoarder if I were left on my own, the animals just look so much in need of a caring human family.
Cats are also available.
August 15^th this year is Clear the Shelters day — you can adopt at vastly reduced fees!
Basic Veterinary services available by appointment as well.
I got my first dog from here and he lived nearly 17 years.

My family & I came here on 12÷26÷14 to get a dog for my lil sister. Well we didn’t end up getting a puppy because she didn’t like any of the pups there. Which is understandable because she’s a little girl.
However my husband & I did end up adopting a Cat we named him «Winter» & he is the love of my life he has brought so much joy to our home & lives.
However on another note I am very very disappointed with this animal shelter. I believe in my heart these animals are not properly taken care of. We saw one little puppy who was so sick & shivering next to another dog because he was so cold
The cat my husband & I adopted was in a cage with little food a card board box with very little cat litter & some dirty water. They obviously do not take care of these pets properly because we took Winter to the vet a few days later & foubd out he has tape worm. Which upsets me very much!
My family & I believe the animals are not being treated right & deserve better love & care.
I was sent home with some Cat food which in fact was EXPIRED! That is so wrong.
I thank God we were able to adopt Winter because now he has all he needs with a loving home & loving parents…
Just be careful if you adopt from this place