Reporting Animal Cruelty. To report a sick or injured animal, call the Humane Society of Huron Valley hotline, (734) 661–3512. To report suspected animal cruelty, call the hotline and leave the address with major cross streets and a detailed account of what type of cruelty you suspect, or file a report online at hshv.org/report.
Humane Society of Huron Valley cruelty investigators investigate reports of animal cruelty in Washtenaw County.Michigan law defines animal cruelty as any of the following: Failure to provide an animal with adequate food, water, shelter, sanitary conditions, exercise or medical treatment; improperly tethering (or chaining) an animal; abandoning or causing an animal to be abandoned without providing for the animal’s adequate care; cruelly beating, torturing, maiming, or killing an animal; willfully or negligently allowing an animal to suffer unnecessarily; transporting an animal in a vehicle in a cruel or inhumane manner; either poisoning or exposing an animal to poison; the cropping of a dog’s ears or the docking of a dog’s tail, unless performed by a registered veterinary surgeon while the dog is under anesthetic.
