PAWS: Report Animal Cruelty

Abandoned/Stray Animals

If you have found or know of a pet that has been abandoned without food, water, or shelter for more than 36 hours please contact your local animal control agency immediately! If an animal is abandoned and/or left with no food, water, or shelter the owner/persons responsible for the pet may be in violation of current Animal Cruelty Laws.

It is within one's legal right to provide food for an abandoned pet as seen below:

RCW 16.52.100

Confinement without food and water -- Intervention by others.
If any domestic animal is impounded or confined without necessary food and water for more than thirty-six consecutive hours, any person may, from time to time, as is necessary, enter into and open any pound or place of confinement in which any domestic animal is confined, and supply it with necessary food and water so long as it is confined. The person shall not be liable to action for the entry, and may collect from the animal's owner the reasonable cost of the food and water. The animal shall be subject to attachment for the costs and shall not be exempt from levy and sale upon execution issued upon a judgment. If an investigating officer finds it extremely difficult to supply confined animals with food and water, the officer may remove the animals to protective custody for that purpose.

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