The King County Law Library has a wide variety of resources that discuss animal law. The Washington State Bar Association has held several continuing legal education seminars on this topic. In our library are materials from the second and third Annual Animal Law Conference. In 2005 WSBA published Animal Law: Meeting Standards of Care, Preventing and Defending Against Veterinary Malpractice; plus, Dangerous Dogs and in 2003 they published Animal Law: A Bird’s Eye View.

In Washington Criminal Practice in Courts of Limited Jurisdiction, by Linda Portnoy you can find a chapter titled “Animal Offenses: Domestic”. Nolo Press has published Dog Law: A Legal Guide for Dog Owners and Their Neighbors.

For discussions of the Endangered Species Act we have ESA: Endangered Species Act by Tony A. Sullins and Endangered Species Act: Law, Policy, and Perspectives by Donald C. Baur and William Robert Irving, both published by the American Bar Association.

Discussions of the ESA can be found in some of the WSBA continuing legal education materials such as Navigating the Maze: A Checklist Approach to Land Use and Environmental Law, The Future of Land Use and Environmental Regulation: Can a Healthy Environment and a Healthy Economy Coexist? and the annual Environmental and Land Use Section Midyear Meeting and Seminar.