County Seat - Port Townsend, Washington
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Introduction | What We Do | Services & Fees | Other Information | Adoption

What We Do For the Community

We shelter animals who for a number of reasons have no home, or who have become lost. We provide these animals with food, shelter, love, and training while we try to find their owner or a new home.

Other Services

Provide a placement service and maintain a file of:

  • Animals in the community who need homes.
  • People in the community who are looking for pets.

From these lists, we attempt to match up animals with new homes.

Provide lost & found service and maintain a file of:

  • Animals that are lost.
  • Animals that are found.

From these lists, we attempt to match up animals.

Provide an adoption service.

  • Animals who come to the shelter are evaluated for their ability to love and respond to their human companions. These animals are made available to families and individuals the demonstrate they are responsible pet owners.

Provide emergency services.

  • We are on call 24 hours a day, and are dispatched by the sheriff's office to deal with bite cases and injured strays. The Sheriff's Office telephone number is: 360.385.3831.

Investigate complaints from individuals in regards to stray dogs, bite cases, neglect, dangerous animals or other violations of city and county ordinances. We pick-up dead cats and dogs that have been killed on city and county public roads.

We rent humane cat and raccoon traps so individuals can safely remove feral cats or raccoons from their property.

License domestic animals. (Dogs are REQUIRED to be licensed in both the city and county.)


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79 Elkins Road, Port Hadlock, WA 98339
Telephone: (360) 385-3831 | FAX: (360) 379-0513
Emergency: 911
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