To report a sick or injured animal or suspected animal cruelty, call the Humane Society of Huron Valley hotline: (734) 661–3512. Leave the address with major cross streets and a detailed account or file a report online at hshv.org/get-help/report-animal-abuse. Michigan law defines animal cruelty as: failure to provide an animal with adequate food, water, shelter, sanitary conditions, exercise, or medical treatment; improperly tethering (or chaining); abandoning or causing an animal to be abandoned; beating, torturing, maiming, or killing an animal; willfully or negligently allowing an animal to suffer; transporting an animal in a vehicle in a cruel or inhumane manner; poisoning or exposing an animal to poison; and/or cropping a dog’s ears or docking a dog’s tail (unless performed by a registered veterinary surgeon).
