City of Hot Springs Animal Services

02/02/2026

**Owner surrenders, strays and agency assists**

** All owner surrenders are immediately available.

**All strays have an eight day hold.

**All agency assists which we post, we need an owner to contact us immediately if we haven't already spoken to you, or if you have information regarding them: please contact us.

Please respond, please help, please adopt and reclaim. We need your help. We are located at 319 Davidson Drive and are open 10 AM until 5 PM Monday through Friday.

Please email: lzaner@hotspringsar.gov and fwetzler@hotspringsar.gov if one of these are yours or you know where they belong.

*Stray cat from Burchwood Bay. Female. On Stray hold until 2/9/26

01/31/2026

A Heartfelt Update from the Front Lines 🐾

​The last 48 hours have been incredibly taxing for our team. Our officers are working tirelessly to keep up with calls, and we sincerely apologize if we haven't reached yours yet. Thank you for your patience while we prioritize urgent needs.

​Our facility is feeling the weight today. With 3 strays arriving and 3 surrenders in a single shift—plus 5 more dogs expected to return on Monday.

​We want to remind our community: Success takes time. We talk about the 3-3-3 Rule with every adopter for a reason. Transitioning a pet requires training, structure, and decompression. Without those, a dog isn't being given the fair shot they deserve.

​The Silver Lining:
Despite the hurdles, love still won today! We celebrated 4 adoptions, including one special pup through Hope Fur Paws. Thank you to those who chose to commit to a forever home.

Please keep your dogs contained and make sure your fence line was not damaged to falling limbs due to the ice.

01/30/2026

we have medical foster for the weekend. Thank you to Abby and Rachel V.

All, we are in desperate need of a medical foster just until Monday. We featured the girl in our stray/surrender post.

She is currently unable to walk and will need to be stood up occasionally and rolled every few hours. If you're strong enough and willing please call us immediately. She is a heavy girl. Please 🥺 call 5012622091.

This girl has a fighting chance per the vet, has nothing broken, but was frozen for so long she can't stand.

01/30/2026

Scruffy

I'm still here.. I just don't know why?
I love playing in the snow.
I have been doing well with other dogs.
I chase a ball.
I'm fully vetted and ready to go.
I know basic commands.
I'm high energy. I'm young and ready to learn. I have manners most of the time ,but need to learn not to jump out of excitement.
Unknown on cats.

We are located at 319 Davidson Drive and are open until 5 PM.

01/30/2026

**Owner surrenders, strays and agency assists**

** All owner surrenders are immediately available.

**All strays have an eight day hold.

**All agency assists which we post, we need an owner to contact us immediately if we haven't already spoken to you, or if you have information regarding them: please contact us.

Please respond, please help, please adopt and reclaim. We need your help. We are located at 319 Davidson Drive and are open 10 AM until 5 PM Monday through Friday.

Please email: lzaner@hotspringsar.gov and fwetzler@hotspringsar.gov if one of these are yours or you know where they belong.

01/30/2026

Today we had a late start due to the roads. We will be doing the same tomorrow, opening at noon.

Our phone lines were nonstop today. Several emergencies and follow ups.

We had two agency assist dogs intook, one stray dog intook that went straight to the vet due to injuries. We had 6 emails about various dogs being returned once the roads are thawed. Its a horrible time as all kennels are full.

We had 3 dog adoptions and 2 dog reclaims.

We are drowning and need a life raft. We need adopters.

We will be open 12 to 5 tomorrow.

Please stay safe on the roads.

319 Davidson Drive

01/29/2026

01/27/2026

Snowy January shenanigans with these City of Hot Springs Animal Services alum!

I will be adding on photos as the day goes by, so if you send them, they will get posted.

This goes to show you, we adopt all breeds, scared, happy, loving and standoffish. But, with time, patience and lots of love they can become amazing members of your family!

01/27/2026

We are still closed as the ice has made it pretty difficult to even walk, but we are hoping for a thaw out today with the balmy 41 degree predicted temperatures. 😂

In the meantime, let's make the best of this and send us snow photos of your City of Hot Springs Animal Services animal you adopted/rescued.

Please give information like this: Here is Zeke Z. formerly HSAS alum April 2025. He was rescued and then adopted by me (Lt. Zaner). He is a spoiled pup who after a DNA test was determined to be Pomeranian mixed with Staffordshire Terrier!

To send snow day photos (not more than 2), email:

lzaner@hotspringsar.gov

and put in the subject line--
"Snow dog/cat 2026",
as our new email filter is ornery and often places emails with attachments into spam.

I look forward to receiving some of your emails!

01/24/2026

Pheweeee! Y'all it was a heck of a day. The phones didn't stop ringing from open until close. We ran all over the county and gave away a record amount of items to people for the community pantry with 24 families coming in for assistance whether it was food, straw, kennels or other needed items. I began the pantry after I saw and heard so many saying they were surrendering their beloved animals because they had lost their job or came on hard times and they were having issues feeding their animal(s). Now, two and a half years after creating the pantry it has blossomed into a way we can help families and keep up with these families who have needs. We hope when you think of ways you want to help the community, you choose to help our pantry which is 100 percent funded by community members for their fellow neighbors. Thank you for growing it to what it is today. Just remember it is available to residents every 60 days with proof of residency. It's to assist and help those who use it make it through hard times with their fur family.

Our numbers: SEVEN owner surrender dogs, TWO stray dogs (ONE additional we reunited in the field due to a microchip.) we had SEVEN dogs adopted, ONE owner reclaim dog and ONE dog rescued by Leo's Life. We had THREE cats adopted.
This had us ending the day with the same amount of dogs IN as OUT. It was an absolute fight the entire day and finally toward the late afternoon adopters trickled in. Thank you!

Please keep your outdoor animals warm and loved. They MUST have usable water which isn't frozen over which they can drink. Make accommodations to protect those who are most vulnerable and check on your elderly neighbors to make sure they're safe and warm during this weather event. Drip your water starting tonight until at least Monday so you don't experience pipes bursting.

Thank you to each donor who brought us needed items. Lastly, thank you to our friends who came out today to try to help us prepare the shelter for the weather. A huge thank you to Kathy, Jeff, Cherry and Linda Bratton for all their hard work today for our animals.