Washington kennel license

Online Services. Meeting Notices. Food Security. Workforce Development. Mental Wellness. Page Content. Getting Licensed as a Kennel Applications for kennel licenses are due on or before January 1 each year for a Kennel License. Kennel license applications must be renewed annually, and applications must be received by January 1. All kennel licenses expire on December 31 of each calendar year.

Commercial kennel is any establishment, where four or more dogs or cats are kept for commercial purposes, including but not limited to board, propagation and training. Commercial kennels include, but are not limited to, dog or cat boarding facilities, training facilities where dogs or cats are boarded during the course of training, catteries and dog or cat breeding or importation businesses. Commercial kennels do not include pet shops, pet daycare facilities, animal shelters, pet grooming services or veterinary hospitals or clinics where animals are kept for surgical or medical treatment under the supervision of a licensed veterinarian.

Pet daycares include any commercial facility where four or more dogs or other pet animal are left by their owners for periods of supervised social interaction in play groups with other animals of the same species for the majority of the time the pets are at the facility during the hours the facility is open to the public.

Pet food retail business is any retail establishment selling any of the following for consumption by pets: Foods or treats requiring refrigeration or freezing to prevent spoilage; or uncooked or partially cooked animal derived pet foods or treats not requiring refrigeration or freezing. Partially cooked animal derived pet foods or treats are those that are cured, dried, dehydrated or smoked and include but are not limited to pig ears, beef hooves, dried tendons, smoked bones, chicken or salmon jerky, and freeze dried seafood, meat or animal organs.

Pet grooming service is any establishment or mobile unit, public or private, where pet animals are bathed, clipped or combed for the purpose of enhancing their aesthetic value or health, or both, and for which a fee is charged. Pet grooming service includes any self service dog washing business where the customer washes their own pets. Pet grooming service does not include incidental bathing or combing of pets as part of regular animal care performed at a pet shop, commercial kennel, pet daycare, animal shelters or grooming performed on an infrequent nonprofit basis for hobby or recreational purposes.

Pet shop is any establishment, store or department of any store that acquires, through purchase, consignment, donation, importation or breeding, live animals including birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish or poultry, but excluding livestock, and sells or offers to sell, adopt or trade the live animals to the public or retail outlets.

Poultry retail business means any establishment, store, department of any store or other establishment that acquires live poultry through purchase, consignment, donation, importation, hatching or breeding, and sells or offers to sell, adopt or trade the live poultry to the public. Satellite adoption facility is a fixed location within a separately permitted pet shop, commercial kennel, pet daycare facility, pet grooming service or pet food retail business where an animal shelter or its staff or volunteers house, care for and regularly offer pets for adoption from the fixed location.

For more information about these types of licenses in King County, please call or visit their website. Change of ownership information. How to get a permit. Seattle In Seattle, contact Seattle Dept. Breeding females and their litters may not be in the same enclosure at the same time with other adult dogs.

Puppies under twelve weeks may not be in the same enclosure at the same time with other adult dogs, other than the dam or foster dam unless under immediate supervision. Food and water receptacles must be regularly cleaned and sanitized. All enclosures must contain potable water that is not frozen, is substantially free from debris, and is readily accessible to all dogs in the enclosure at all times. A dog may not be bred if a veterinarian determines that the animal is unfit for breeding purposes.

Only dogs between the ages of twelve months and eight years of age may be used for breeding. Animals requiring euthanasia must be euthanized only by a licensed veterinarian.