Metro Animal Shelter

"Meowtro Animal Shelter, can I help you?"

Our shelter is experiencing a huge increase in phone calls -- and many of them are misdirected, misinformed, or just plain mean.

We genuinely want to help you and your pets, but if you do not live in the cities that we serve, then we are very limited in what we can do to help. Our team can provide you with a list of resources and the contact information for the animal shelter that services where you live... but we cannot take animals from you.

Here is why: If you live within the city limits of Puyallup, Sumner, Bonney Lake, Pacific, Milton, Algona, and Edgewood, then you pay taxes to these cities. And these cities utilize your tax money to ensure that animal control and animal sheltering services are provided in your city limits through Metro Animal Services Shelter. So if you live in these 7 cities, that means our shelter can help you with stray animals and lost pets, and whenever possible we will also help with owner surrenders.

But if you live in the city limits of Tacoma, Lakewood, or in unincorporated Pierce County (outside city limits), then your tax dollars support animal sheltering services that are contracted by these jurisdictions through the Humane Society. We cannot take in animals that are from outside our jurisdiction, and our staff cannot answer questions about any other shelters' policies, capacities, or fees.

Please be kind when you call. Yelling does not help us to help you. We care about your pets and we know that you do too. Please know that we will do our very best to provide services if you are in our service area... and if you aren't in our service area, then we will direct you to the sheltering provider that is funded/operated by your tax dollars that are paid by you to your city or to the county.

After record-setting adoption numbers in December and January, we saw a big dip at the end of February. So to help encourage more folks to adopt from our shelter, we are going to extend the free dog food offer through the start of March.

The next 5 medium/large dogs adopted from our shelter will receive an entire year of dry adult dog food for free!!! You read that right, for FREE. Dog food can cost anywhere from $50-$75 for a large bag, so this offer will save you nearly $750 -- while at the same time helping a shelter dog to find a loving family!

There has never been a better time to adopt a dog from the Metro Animal Shelter in Puyallup. All of our adoptable pets are listed on our website; if you are viewing from a mobile device, be sure to scroll all the way to the bottom to see our dogs:

https://metroanimalservices.org/search-pets/

Stray animals received 2/28/26

Puyallup- Deceased solid black domestic short haired intact male found near the 2600 block of Stewart, A0060554051 *No microchip*

Bonney Lake- Black and white domestic shorthaired cat found near the 18300 block of 106th St E, A0060552818 * No microchip*