Lost & Found - West Columbia Gorge Humane Society (2024)

If you found a stray dog within the city limits of Camas or Washougal, you have two options:

1. Contact our shelter, or the Humane Society for Southwest Washington (HSSW) to make arrangements to bring the dog in. Both shelters can accept lost dogs.
2. Contact Camas-Washougal Animal Control to pick up the dog.

We can only accept dogs during open shelter hours. After hours, you must contact Camas-Washougal Animal Control.

If you choose to contact Animal Control, you may do so in the following ways:

• Before 5pm, Monday-Friday: call (360) 835-8701 (press 1)
• After 5pm, and on weekends: call (360) 693-3111

If you would like to hold on to the dog while looking for the owner, please contact WCGHS and HSSW to submit a Found Dog report.

Please DO NOT abandon any animal at the shelter. It is prohibited by law and violators will be prosecuted!

If you found a stray dog within Clark County, but outside of Camas or Washougal city limits, you have two options:

1. Contact the Humane Society for Southwest Washington (HSSW) to make arrangements to bring the dog in at (360) 213-2621.
2. Contact Clark County Animal Control to pick up the dog at (360) 397-2488.

HSSW can only accept dogs during open shelter hours. After hours, you must contact Clark County Animal Control.

If you would like to hold on to the dog while looking for the owner, please contact WCGHS and HSSW to submit a Found Dog report.

Please DO NOT abandon any animal at the shelter. It is prohibited by law and violators will be prosecuted!

We do not accept ear tipped cats

To learn more about ear tipped cats:

https://resources.bestfriends.org/article/ear-tipping-cats-what-it-and-why-its-done

Animal shelters often experience fluctuations in intakes throughout the year. During times that we are at, or exceeding, capacity, we must limit our intakes to those animals with the greatest need. Therefore, healthy stray or lost cats may be put on a waitlist.

If you found a stray cat within the city limits of Camas or Washougal you have a few options:

1. Contact our shelter, depending on space, we may be able to make arrangements to bring the cat in. Stray cats are accepted by appointment only.
2. If you would like to hold on to the cat while looking for the owner, please contact WCGHS and HSSW to submit a Found Cat report. Please also post it on the different local listings and social media sites listed above. Posting flyers in your neighborhood will also increase the chances of reuniting the pet with its owner.
3. Contact Camas-Washougal Animal Control if the cat is sick, or in immediate danger. You may contact Camas-Washougal Animal Control in the following ways:
   Before 5pm, Monday-Friday: call (360) 835-8701 (press 1)
   After 5pm, and on weekends: call (360) 693-3111

To learn more about the Humane Society for Southwest Washington’s lost and found services:

https://southwesthumane.org/lost-found/

If you would like to hold on to the cat while looking for the owner, please contact WCGHS and HSSW to submit a Found Cat report. Please also post it on the different local listings and social media sites listed above. Posting flyers in your neighborhood will also increase the chances of reuniting the pet with its owner.

Please DO NOT abandon any animal at the shelter. It is prohibited by law and violators will be prosecuted!

Often kittens are NOT actually abandoned.

Mother cats are working moms who need to hunt for food regularly to provide for their babies.

Stop. Look. Listen.

Carefully examine the nest.

1. Is it in a safe space?
2. Is it clean?
3. Are the kittens quiet?
4. Do they appear healthy?
5. Has mom been seen in the last 12-24 hours

If the answers are YES, Cat moms are much better than humans at caring for neonatal kittens, and their chances of survival with mom are much greater. If mom is present, and even if mom is feral, please call WCGHS for next steps in T-N-R assistance.

If any of these answers are NO, you may need to intervene to help them. Kittens who are sick or injured may need immediate help. These kittens should be picked up immediately and provided with care.

If the kittens appear safe and healthy, please watch for mom for 12-24 hours. Kittens need to stay with their mom to have a chance at survival, and the mom cat has to be trapped and brought to the shelter so that she is not separated from her kittens. Kittens are to be brought into the shelter without mom, only if she has not returned to the nest for 12-24 hours. EVEN IF YOU SUSPECT THAT MOM IS FERAL, please call WCGHS for next steps in T-N-R assistance.

Remember: Please contact WCGHS prior to bringing any cats or kittens to the shelter.