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215 <br />[ 1/ <br />- Orange County Animal Services <br />501 W. Franklin S~ Smte 106, Chapel Hill, NC 27514 (919) 968-22$7 <br />September 10~', 2007 <br />To: Animal Services Advisory Board <br />From: Bob Mar+otbo, Animal Services Director, and Inane Paul, Animal Control <br />Manager <br />Re: Required, ICenne! Space Recommendations <br />At the August meeting of the Animal Services Advisory Board (ASAB), we were asked <br />to recommend the minimum required size of kennels for dogs that are confined by such <br />enclosures. This was requested as part of the ASAB review of the final report of the <br />Tethering Commitfiee, which recommended that the allowable dimensions of kennels be <br />set as part of an ordinance amendment that limits the time a dog may be tethered in <br />Orange County <br />Recommendation <br />As discussed further below, our recommendations are based upon our review of <br />regulations from other jurisdictions that have set the minimum requin:d size of kennels <br />for dogs. They an: as follows: <br />1. A minimum spate n~uirement should be set in acxordance with-the size of the <br />dog (or dogs) that are kenneled. More specifically, there should be a threefold <br />requirement as follows; <br />• 1 to 35 pounds <br />• 36 to 75 pounds <br />• _ 76-plus pounds <br />80 square feet <br />100 square feet <br />120 square feet <br />2. Additional space should be provided for each addifional dog that is kept in a <br />kennel. Specifically, we recommend that fifty percent of the minimum required <br />space be added fior the second and each subsequent dog that is kept kenneled <br />with another dog; and that the addfional space be based upon the size of the <br />largest of the dogs that are kenneled together. <br />3. Electronic containment devices and traditional fences shall be treated in the <br />same way as a kennel with n~pect to the minimum space n'quired for one or <br />more dogs of different s¢es. - <br />