§ 23-12. Minimum required humane standards and procedures for guard dog agency kennels.

A. 

Animal separation: males separate from females; injured animals separate from uninjured animals; aggressive animals and nursing animals are to be kept separate from all other animals.

B. 

Cages and kennels.

(1) 

Cages and kennels must provide a minimum of 24 square feet of floor space for each dog.

(2) 

Each kennel can contain no more than two dogs, each cage can contain no more than one dog.

(3) 

Cages and kennels to have water and bedding available at all times.

C. 

Runs. There must be sufficient four-foot-by-ten-foot outdoor runs to allow every adult dog to be exercised twice daily; runs to be at least partially shaded.

D. 

Training areas and other outside areas routinely accessible to the guard dogs must be totally enclosed by a chain link fence at least eight feet in height with privacy slats.

E. 

Heating, ventilation, cleaning, construction.

(1) 

Heat must be forced hot air or equivalent capable of maintaining a constant minimum floor level temperature of 65° for adult animals and 75° for infant animals unless the type of breed would indicate a different temperature range.

(2) 

Ventilation must be adequate to provide a sufficient supply of fresh or air conditioned air, especially in hot weather.

(3) 

Cleaning. All cages, kennels, runs, dishes, litter pans, etc. must be scrubbed with hot water and soap every day and a disinfectant effective for disease control must be used twice a week in cleaning. Entire premises must be kept in sanitary condition. Animals must be removed from cage, kennel or run while it is cleaned and not returned thereto until it is dry.

(4) 

Construction. Floors and walls (to a height of four feet) in kennels and runs must be of or coated with an impervious material to facilitate cleaning and runs must be sloped sufficiently to provide drainage.

Editor's Note: Former § 23-11, Liability, was redesignated as § 23-14 by L.L. No. 26-1990, adopted 12-18-1990, effective 11-24-1990.

Added 11-18-1990 by L.L. No. 26-1990, effective 11-24-1990