Animal control provides assistance for nuisance animal complaints, stray and unwanted animal pick-up, live trapping for nuisance animals (opossums, ground hogs, etc.), quarantines animals involved in bites to monitor rabies, and provides for control of animal abuse. Call the Joplin Health Department at (417) 623-6122 (after hours and weekends, call (417) 623-3131) to contact animal control.