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/get-help/report-animal-abuse.
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, a shelter 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 tails, unless such cropping is performed by a registered veterinary surgeon while the dog is under anesthetic.
