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(3) Mammals: ocelots, lions, tigers, jaguars, leopards, cougars, bobcats, wolves,
<br />• dingoes, coyotes, tes, jackals, elephants, weasels, martins, minks, badgers, pandas, bears,
<br />raccoons, bats, foxes, skunks, cheetahs, servals, caracals, hyenas, baboons, chimpanzees,
<br />orangutans, gorillas or any species illegal to own under federal or state law, and an
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<br />animal which is, or may be hereafter, listed as a "high risk" animal in the Texas Rabies
<br />Control Act;
<br />(4) Marsupials, kangaroos, kinkajous; or,
<br />(5) Any hybrid of any animal classified as Dangerous Wild Animal.
<br />Estray means any unbranded sheep, cattle, horses or mules found running at large, or any
<br />branded sheep, cattle, horses or mules found running at large, or any swine found running at
<br />large; but it does not mean nor include any unweaned animal specified in this section that is
<br />running with its mother.
<br />Fowl includes chickens, turkeys, pheasants, ducks, geese, pigeons and all similar domestic birds
<br />and poultry, whether kept for use or pleasure.
<br />• Government-operated facility means any facility owned or operated by a governmental entity at
<br />which animals are handled, kept or displayed.
<br />Grooming shop means any facility where animals are bathed, clipped, plucked or otherwise
<br />groomed.
<br />Handler means any person having immediate responsibility for or control of an animal.
<br />Identification means any acceptable method such as microchipping, registration tag, or tattoo
<br />readilv traceable to the current owner.
<br />Impound means the placing of an animal in the City's animal services facility, or, the taking into
<br />custody of an animal for the purposes of transportation to the city's animal services facility.
<br />Inhumane treatment of animals means any treatment of an animal prohibited by any provision of
<br />law, including federal, state and local laws, ordinance or rules.
<br />Kennel Kennels, commercial for the purpose of this. chapter only, means any establishment
<br />faeility where a person, partnership or corporation keeps dogs or cats primarily for the purpose of
<br />used f r the business e boarding, breeding, buying, selling, trading, showing, or training Begs
<br />E)f eats f r ^ such animals.
<br />• Livestock means or includes, regardless of age, sex or breed, horses of all equine species
<br />including, mules, donkeys and jackasses, e-attle cows consisting of all bovine species;, sheep
<br />consisting of all ovine species, llamas or alpacas, goats consisting of all caprine species, and pigs
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