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ROWLETT ANIMAL CONTROL operates out of the Rowlett Animal Shelter at 4402 Industrial. The goals of the Rowlett Animal Control Department are to protect the citizens from uncontrolled animals, to ensure the safety and welfare of all animals, to enforce City Ordinances and State laws concerning animals, and to educate the public about responsible pet ownership.

Pet owners need to be considerate of their neighbors by restricting their animals to secured or fenced areas of their own property. Loose animals scatter garbage, get into fights, produce unwanted litters, an harass and attach children and adults. Allowing pets to run loose also increases the likelihood that they will catch a disease, cause a motor vehicle accident or be injured.

OWNERSHIP: An owner is any person who owns, keeps, shelters, maintain, feeds, harbors or has temporary or permanent custody of a domestic or prohibited animal and allows it to remain on or about any premises occupied by the person who has control those premises.

NUMBER OF DOGS AND CATS: A residence may house up to four ($) adult dogs or cats on a residential lot of ten thousand (10,000) square feet or less. For each additional five thousand (5,000) square feet of lot area, a person may keep one (1) additional adult dog or cat. Each residence owner or occupant shall be permitted to keep one (1) litter only.

RESTRAINT (other than a cat): An animal is under restraint under the following conditions: 1. It is securely caged or confined to its owner's home or yard. An electronic barrier is not considered a valid fence or wall to keep an animal from running at large; or 2. It is secured by a lease of sufficient strength t control the animal while the animal is being walked. A chain or cable device may be used to secure an animal in a yard as long as the animal may not travel out of the yard while so restrained or create an unhealthy situation as determined by Animal Control; or 3. It is being held in the hands of the owner or keeper. An animal within an automobile or other vehicle of its owner shall not be deemed running at large.

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CAT RESTRAINT: Persistent laxness in the supervision of cats (so their running at large results in an unreasonable disturbance to a person of ordinary sensibilities) is prohibited

BARKING/NOISE ORDINANCE: A person commits an offense if he harbors an animal that unreasonably barks, howls, crows or makes other unreasonable noise near a private residence if the noise disturbs the peace and quiet of any person of ordinary sensibility.

RABIES VACCINATION: An owner who has a dog, cat, ferret, or pot-bellied pig over the age of three (3) months shall have the animal vaccinated against rabies

CITY LICENSE TAG: No owner shall have within the City any dog, cat, ferret, or potbellied pig four (4) months of age or older unless said animal is currently registered with the Animal Control Department. Once an owner of any animal as described above has taken residence in the City, the owner shall have thirty (30) days to register his pets with Animal Control

The registration fee for an unaltered dog or cat is $10.00 per animal. The registration fee for an altered dog or cat is $3.00 per animal. Registration is free to Rowlett residents sixty-five (65) years of age or older who legally own an animal that has been spayed or neutered. A non-registration fee of $20.00 will be charged to an owner of an impounded animal who cannot provide proof of a current City registration. The non-registration fee will be in addition to any other applicable fees. Ferrets and potbellied pigs are $20.00 to register and require special documentation. Information on registering these animals may be obtained from the Animal Shelter.

SANITARY STANDARDS: It shall be unlawful for the owner to permit, either willfully or through failure to exercise care and control, any dog or animal to defecate upon the sidewalks or public street, any public place or building, an any private property not his own, and it shall be the responsibility of the owner to remove any animal waste deposited by his animal.

PROPER CARE OF ANIMALS: Every owner or other person having care and control of any animal shall provide the following for each animal under his care and control: 1. Sufficient nutritious and wholesome food, served in clean containers, to maintain the animal in good health; 2. Clean and wholesome water, served in a clean container; such water should be available to the animal at all times; 3. Adequate shelter and protection from the weather at all times; 4. Veterinary care as needed.

DEAD ANIMAL PICKUP: Animal Control will pick up a dead dog, cat or other small animal within City limit's when placed in a plastic bag and set out in an area to which Animal Control has vehicle access. Owners of large dead animals are responsible for the proper disposal or their animals..