Welcome to the Peninsula SPCA website. The Peninsula SPCA and animal control facility serves Hampton, Newport News, Poquoson, and York County. Our goals are long ranged and widespread. We do not hope to find every animal a home, but strive to find as many suitable homes for our animals as possible. Compassionate placement separates our SPCA and animal control facility from a pet shop or any other profiteering business. Seeing that an animal is kept alive regardless of circumstances has no humane reflection. Placing an animal in a comfortable and appropriate environment sets us apart from pet shops. Stray, abandoned, abused and unwanted animals can find temporary care and shelter at the Peninsula SPCA. We try to find the owners of our stray animals and homes for the unwanted ones. In doing this, our staff tries to educate so that these animals do not have to end up back at a shelter or pound. A few ideas or hints can go a long way towards the making of a happy pet owner as well as a happy pet. As an animal control shelter, as well as an SPCA, we enforce animal related laws, pick up stray dogs that are running loose (enforce the leash law), investigate animal neglect or cruelty, pick up deceased animals on public roadways, as well as animals that have been injured. We also help in problems of our local wildlife, trying to come up with a solution that will make the person happy as well as the particular animal, be it a racoon, opossum, squirrel, etc. If we can't help or answer a question, we try to find someone who can. We are on 24-hour emergency call every day. You can call our daytime phone number (595-1399) at anytime and you will find out who to call if you have a problem after hours. But remember, it is for emergencies only! We consider an emergency call as a stray animals that you find or see that is either sick or injured or in need of medical help. We pick the animal up and transport it to the emergency verterinary clinic. We do not have a vet at the shelter. If you have a pet that is sick or injured and it is after hours, call 874-8115 and they will help you. For some history, the SPCA started in the early forties housing animals in private homes. We became a sheltered society in 1959 on Salters Creek Road in Hampton. We were strickly the SPCA until 1976 when we took over Animal Control services for Newport News and Hampton. In 1981 Poquoson requested that we handle their animal control and then we began to house animals for York County shortly after. In 1983 we moved to our present facility because of the much needed space and we have grown to what you know us to be today. We hope you will enjoy browsing our website and that you will learn something new about our facility. Please take time to e-mail your comments and suggestions.