(This case of alleged animal cruelty is outside of our city limits, but inside our potential annexation area.)
We are currently making updates to our animal keeping ordinance, but all versions, old and new, require proper housing and good nutrition for animals being kept.
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KIRO TV
Horses Seized From Farm Near Renton
King County Animal Control said they received a report a week ago that 16 horses living on a farm in the 13400 block of 156th Street Southeast were not getting enough to eat and were living in dangerous conditions.
No mercy for animal abusers!
Randy,
Could you direct the otherwise awesome Renton animal control officers to be a bit harder on people who don’t take care of their animals.
They, in my experience, are a bit too lenient – giving bad owners more “second-chances” that they should.
We have a puppy-mill two houses next door – and it took them months to get it shut down (or better hidden). It should have been a one day ordeal – with the unlicensed pit-bulls confiscated and the owners fined.
That guy has been turned in numerous times over the years. He always blames other people and claims he’s “working on it” or “they eat better than they look like they do”. He also threatened my friend who confronted him about the condition of his horses. Too bad a horse had to die before something was done. Dennis lives by him, I bet he would have done something about it if it was in Renton.
I could go ON and ON about equine rights and the problem with the horse industry these days, but what good would it do? There will always be animal hoarders, there will always be people with excuses.
It makes me sick.