Animal
Control & Shelter
Sitka Police Department
SITKA ANIMAL SHELTER MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Sitka Animal Shelter and the Sitka Animal Control Division is to improve the quality of life in the City and Borough of Sitka by providing safety to the citizens and animals, preserving the health of the citizens, and care of the animals.
The Sitka Animal Shelter provides a comprehensive and compassionate service to the animals of Sitka, temporary care and safe shelter, placement and education for the dignity and well being of all animals, and to respect wildlife.
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Animal Control Services
The Sitka Animal Control Department is a division of the Sitka Police Department. Animal Control is responsible for upholding and enforcing regulations (ordinances) regarding the treatment and control of animals in the City and Borough of Sitka. Animal Control ordinances serve three purposes: 1) protection of people, 2) protection of property, and 3) protection of animals.
Animal Control means not only protecting people from the nuisance of roaming, uncontrolled animals, but also protecting pets and wild animals in their habitats.
Animal control solutions begin with people
There is one Animal Control Officer currently working through the Sitka Police Department. The ACO is also responsible for the Sitka Animal Shelter functions
Animal Control Services include, but are not limited to:
- Animal rescue
- Compliant investigation
- Animal cruelty investigation
- Animal Ambulance
- Animal quarantine
- Limited wildlife management
Critter Corner: a view by Officer Nancy Buckmaster
Since I began this job 11-years ago we've had a problem with dogs biting newspaper delivery people. With the help of Thad and Sandra Poulson, owners of the Daily Sitka Sentinel, any person who owns a dog that bites a newspaper delivery person, will have to move their newspaper box to the street level. The delivery person will no longer go onto that persons property.
Thad and Sandra agree the placement of the Daily Sitka Sentinel receptacle will be placed in the safest place for the delivery person, not necessarily the most convenient place for the person receiving the newspaper. This problem with dogs biting the Daily Sitka Sentinel delivery people must stop. If it means you have to walk a bit of a distance to get your newspaper for the evening, so be it.
Dogs that bite, will bite again. Hopefully you people that have a dog that has ever bitten before will do the right thing, move your paper box to a safe place for the delivery person.