VANCOUVER, Wash. — A $5,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest and conviction of the person or people responsible for harming rabbits and other wildlife around Vancouver, Wash.
Since November, Clark County Animal Protection and Control said it has responded to 10 reports of injured rabbits in the vicinity of Fourth Plain Blvd.S, to Burton Road and Andresen Road East, to Northeast 98th Avenue in Vancouver.
The agency has also received information that a migratory woodpecker with a blow dart embedded in the abdomen was seen at a feeder in the area and is believed to have been attacked by the same person or people.
Several of the injured rabbits had to be euthanized due to the extent of their injuries.
Animal control officers are still finding blow darts in yards and believe some injured rabbits have gone off to hide.
“Washington’s animal cruelty laws prohibit the infliction of pain, injury or death on animals, and these recent reports of dead and seriously injured rabbits, left to suffer in these residential neighborhoods, is certainly a crime,” said ALDF Animal Cruelty Investigations Manager Linda Fielder. “We are hopeful that members of the community are able to come forward with information that will lead to justice for these animals and prevent similar actions in the future.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Clark County Animal Protection and Control at animal@clark.wa.gov or 564-397-2488.
If you have any doorbell or other camera video you can share showing someone using a blow dart gun in the area, it can be emailed to animal@clark.wa.gov.
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