Seattle animals & pests 311 requests

Animals & Pests 311 requests filed in Seattle since January 2024.

Current release

Data through April 12, 2026

Data from January 2024 through April 12, 2026

Source data: Socrata ↗

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Total Requests

10.4K

in the animals & pests category

Latest Month

203

April 2026

Share of total

1.5%

of all Seattle 311 requests

Monthly animals & pests requests

How many animals & pests 311 requests Seattle residents file each month.

How this category is defined

What counts as animals & pests: Complaints about loose, injured, or dead animals on public property; dog bites; wildlife concerns (coyotes, raccoons); and rodent or pest sightings.

In Seattle’s raw 311 data, the following 4 service_type values are counted as animals & pests:

  • Dead Animal
  • Found a Pet
  • Lost a Pet
  • Nuisance Dogs in a Park

To reproduce these counts against the raw feed

SELECT count(*)
FROM <seattle_311_raw>
WHERE service_type IN (
  'Dead Animal',
  'Found a Pet',
  'Lost a Pet',
  'Nuisance Dogs in a Park'
)

Analyst tip: Austin prefixes everything 'Animal Protection - ...'. Calgary uses 'AS -' for animal services and also files rodent calls under 'Parks - Wildlife Management'. NYC does not currently have a dedicated animal service_type in our mapping — rodent and wildlife complaints land under building or street categories in that city.

See how animals & pests is defined for every tracked city →

Source & provenance

Counts on this page are derived from Seattle’s official open 311 data feed, covering January 2024 through April 12, 2026. Category assignment uses an AI-generated mapping from the city’s raw service types to a normalized cross-city category. View the underlying dataset at data.seattle.gov.