Companion Animal Alliance (CAA) is the open-intake municipal animal shelter serving East Baton Rouge Parish. Through our contract with the City-Parish, we provide shelter and care for stray, abandoned, neglected, injured, displaced, and surrendered animals while working to create positive outcomes for pets and the people who love them.

As both the municipal shelter and a nonprofit organization, our mission extends far beyond our shelter walls. Every day, we work to reunite lost pets with their families, connect adoptable animals with loving homes, provide lifesaving medical care, support responsible pet ownership, and expand access to resources that help families keep their pets.

Our vision is for Baton Rouge to be a community where every pet has a safe home, and every family has access to the resources they need to care for the animals they love.

Our Mission

Companion Animal Alliance is committed to improving the lives of companion animals and the people who care for them through compassionate sheltering, lifesaving programs, and community partnerships. We do this by…

Keeping Pets with Their Families

Whenever possible, we work to prevent pets from entering the shelter by providing resources and support to pet owners, including:

  • Access to affordable veterinary care

  • Spay/neuter assistance

  • Pet retention resources

  • Rehoming guidance and community supportCompanion Animal Alliance is committed to improving the lives of companion animals and the people who care for them through compassionate sheltering, lifesaving programs, and community partnerships.

Creating Lifesaving Pathways

Our goal is to help every healthy and treatable animal find the best possible outcome by:

  • Connecting pets with loving adoptive families

  • Recruiting and supporting foster homes

  • Coordinating lifesaving transport opportunities

  • Building strong partnerships with local and national rescue organizations

  • Making information about adoptable animals accessible to the public

Join our Mission

Creating a more humane community takes all of us.

Whether you choose to adopt, foster, volunteer, donate, or simply advocate for responsible pet ownership, you become an important part of our lifesaving mission.

Providing Compassionate Care

Every animal that enters our shelter deserves safety, dignity, and exceptional care. We are committed to:

  • Providing veterinary/medical care

  • Meeting each animal's physical and behavioral needs

  • Offering enrichment, exercise, and socialization opportunities

  • Treating every animal with compassion and respect

Reuniting Lost Pets with Their Families

Returning lost pets home is one of the most meaningful outcomes we achieve. We work to reunite pets with their owners by:

  • Holding stray animals in accordance with state and local requirements while maximizing opportunities for reunification

  • Scanning every stray animal for a microchip

  • Contacting registered owners whenever identification is available

  • Supporting lost-and-found efforts through community outreach and online resources

Our mission is to keep pets and people together whenever possible, increase spay/neuter efforts, treat animals humanely, find loving homes, and return lost pets to their owners.

What we do

Every year, Companion Animal Alliance cares for more than 9,000 animals from throughout East Baton Rouge Parish. Our work includes:

  • Animal sheltering for stray, surrendered, and displaced pets

  • Pet adoptions

  • Foster and rescue partnerships

  • Lost and found pet reunification

  • Animal transport to partner shelters

  • Access to affordable veterinary care

  • Community cat management and Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR)

  • Volunteer and community engagement programs

  • Humane education and outreach

Our goal is not simply to shelter animals; it is to prevent pet homelessness whenever possible through proactive support for pet owners and lifesaving solutions.

More than a shelter

Many people know us as the place where homeless pets come to find new families, but that is only part of our work.

Every day, our team helps families navigate difficult circumstances by providing pet food assistance, connecting owners with affordable veterinary care, offering rehoming resources, assisting with lost and found pets, and working alongside community partners to reduce unnecessary shelter intake.

By investing in prevention, we can keep more pets where they belong, with the people who love them.

Our commitment

Being an open-intake shelter means our doors never close to an animal in need. We accept animals regardless of age, breed, medical condition, or behavior because every animal deserves compassion and care.

This responsibility comes with unique challenges, but it also provides countless opportunities to save lives through collaboration, innovation, and community support.

Every adoption, every volunteer hour, every foster home, and every donation helps make that work possible.

Together, we can make Baton Rouge a better place for people & pets.