Buffalo animals & pests 311 requests
Animals & Pests 311 requests filed in Buffalo since June 2024.
Current release
Data through April 30, 2026
Data from June 2024 through April 30, 2026
Source data: Socrata ↗
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Total Requests
5.5K
in the animals & pests category
Latest Month
246
April 2026
Share of total
3.6%
of all Buffalo 311 requests
Median Resolution
5.1d
half of requests close faster
Monthly animals & pests requests
How many animals & pests 311 requests Buffalo residents file each month.
How this category is defined
What counts as animals & pests: Complaints about loose, injured, or dead animals on public property; dog bites; wildlife concerns (coyotes, raccoons); and rodent or pest sightings.
In Buffalo’s raw 311 data, the following 2 service_type values are counted as animals & pests:
- Dog Animal Control Issue
- Rodent Control Issue
To reproduce these counts against the raw feed
SELECT count(*)
FROM <buffalo_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
'Dog Animal Control Issue',
'Rodent Control Issue'
)Analyst tip: Austin prefixes everything 'Animal Protection - ...'. Calgary uses 'AS -' for animal services and also files rodent calls under 'Parks - Wildlife Management'. NYC does not currently have a dedicated animal service_type in our mapping — rodent and wildlife complaints land under building or street categories in that city.
Source & provenance
Counts on this page are derived from Buffalo’s official open 311 data feed, covering June 2024 through April 30, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.buffalony.gov.