• Menu
  • Skip to right header navigation
  • Skip to main content

WASART

Washington State Animal Response Team

Header Right

Washington State Animal Response Team
Emergency Phone: 425-681-5498

DONATE

  • Home
  • WASART Stories
  • About
    • About WASART
    • WASART Board of Directors & Committee Chairs
    • Contact WASART
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Documentation
      • Newsletters
      • Policies, Financials, and More
  • Volunteer
    • Volunteer: Learn More
    • Join the Team!
  • Training & Events
    • Training & Events Calendar
    • WASART Field Training
    • Registration
  • Resources
    • Login
    • Member Only Resources
      • Additional Resources
    • Public Resources
    • Responder Resiliency (Soon)
    • The WASART Store
  • Home
  • WASART Stories
  • About
    • About WASART
    • WASART Board of Directors & Committee Chairs
    • Contact WASART
    • Frequently Asked Questions
    • Documentation
      • Newsletters
      • Policies, Financials, and More
  • Volunteer
    • Volunteer: Learn More
    • Join the Team!
  • Training & Events
    • Training & Events Calendar
    • WASART Field Training
    • Registration
  • Resources
    • Login
    • Member Only Resources
      • Additional Resources
    • Public Resources
    • Responder Resiliency (Soon)
    • The WASART Store

Header Right

Washington State Animal Response Team
Emergency Phone: 425-681-5498

DONATE

snohomish county

Summer, Horse Needing a Lift Up

On June 13th we received a call for assistance with a 30-year-old female Mustang horse named Summer. She laid down in her stall during the night and was unable to get up on her own. Her owner stated she had arthritis in her hind end but was an otherwise healthy horse. A veterinarian was on …

Summer, Horse Needing a Lift UpRead More

Lobo, Dog Stranded Across the Wallace River

On the afternoon of December 10th, we received a call about a shepherd dog that was stuck across the Wallace River in Sultan, WA. The dog was stranded in an area of the river with a high embankment of dense brush as well as approximately 40 feet of thick blackberry bushes behind the location. He …

Lobo, Dog Stranded Across the Wallace RiverRead More

Night time photo of harnessed people ready to go over a cliff.

Bella, Dog Over Cliff at Youngs Creek

This weekend’s call was for Bella, a 50ish lb dog, a Doodle, who waited at the bottom of a cliff, tucked between the Youngs Creek and the ravine wall she’d fallen down. She rested in some shallow water. The call came in a couple of hours before dark. We sent out a call to our …

Bella, Dog Over Cliff at Youngs CreekRead More

Kodin, Injured Dog on Gothic Basin Trail

The call we received for this rescue came from the activation of an inReach device. If you aren’t familiar, an inReach is a device subscription service from Garmin that, among other features, uses satellites to send and receive texts where there isn’t cell service, and it as has an SOS button on the side. Once …

Kodin, Injured Dog on Gothic Basin TrailRead More

German Shepherd Mason waits patiently for owner to finish filling out paperwork.

Mason, Dog on Greider Lake Trail

Usually when people call us, it’s through the emergency number, and when it’s for Snohomish County, we respond with the permission or by request of the Sheriff’s Office. Snohomish County has a lot of trails without cell service, so if someone needs rescue service by either us or regular search and rescue, there’s a long …

Mason, Dog on Greider Lake TrailRead More

A rescued dog drinks water.

Leo, Dog Over Cliff in Snohomish

We received a call about a dog over a cliff in Mukilteo in Snohomish County, WA. Our subject was a lab-Airdale mix, weighing about 50 lbs named Leo. We had a responder meet with Officer Duke, an animal control officer (ACO) for Snohomish County. Our responder scouted the area and determined this would be a …

Leo, Dog Over Cliff in SnohomishRead More

Flint, Dog Over Cliff in Snohomish

We received a call for a dog over a cliff in Arlington, WA, in Snohomish County. We put a call out to the team, knowing it may be a fairly technical rescue. Once our first responder on site confirmed it would be. It was the middle of the work day and most of our technical …

Flint, Dog Over Cliff in SnohomishRead More

Twix, Horse Across a River

On Monday afternoon we received a call for a horse on the wrong side of the river in Snohomish. We sent out a responder who lives in the area to have him evaluate the situation and take some photos so we could figure out if we could do a safe rescue and if so, how …

Twix, Horse Across a RiverRead More

A horse stuck in the mud is rescued by the technical animal rescue team.

Dane, Horse Stuck in the Mud

Dane, our subject yesterday, ended up sunk to his belly in mud at about noon. At the request of the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Department, we set out from the equipment van’s base in Enumclaw for Snohomish’s Lord Hill County Park, a popular equine destination. When we arrived, we were met by Snohomish County Search & …

Dane, Horse Stuck in the MudRead More

Site Footer

HELPING ANIMALS AND THEIR OWNERS IN EMERGENCIES

WASART is a 501(c)(3) • PO Box 21 - Enumclaw, WA 98022 • info@wasart.org
Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2025