Katie Ingram

Animal Services Manager, Placer County Animal Services

Katie Ingram has been the Animal Services Manager at Placer County Animal Services in Auburn, California for the past three years. Since joining the team, she has been responsible for the opening of the new, state-of-the-art animal shelter, increasing community engagement and developing new and progressive shelter programs. During her time at Placer County Animal Services, Katie has led her team in partnering with a local non-profit, Kitten Central, to outsource neonatal kitten rearing for the shelter, developing and building a robust foster program for older kittens and implementing a barn cat and TNR program for community cats. These programs have proved incredibly successful for life-saving allowing Placer County Animal Services to achieve a live release rate of 93.4% in 2019! Katie has worked in the Animal Sheltering industry for the past 12 years serving previously as the Assistant Director at OC Animal Care in Orange County, CA. During her time at OC Animal Care, she also oversaw the Volunteer, Foster, Public Education/Outreach, Rescue Coordination and TNR programs, which were responsible for saving thousands of shelter animals each year.