Mission Statement Low Cost Spay/Neuter Westerville Programs
“Being There When Needed” Citizens for Humane Action www.chaanimalshelter.org Animal
The Westerville Division of Police mission Capital Area Humane Society Control is to maintain a safe environment for our www.cahs-pets.org citizens to live, work and play and to do so by providing proactive and reactive Delaware County Humane Society services in keeping with a community www.delawarecohumanesoc.org policing philosophy. These services are to be performed in an efficient and effective Cat Welfare manner with pride, integrity and www.catwelfareohio.com professionalism while assuring that each person’s constitutional rights are Friends of Animals protected. www.friendsofanimals.org/spaying/cover.htm
Employee involvement in the Division is a Neighborly Ohio Mobile Animal Doctor vital part of continuous improvement. NOMAD 614-348-7298
Each employee, while performing his/her Roaming Animal Sterilization Clinic part of the mission, is to strive to be there www.rascalunit.com 614-791-7729 for each citizen when there is a need, no matter how big or small. Animal Outreach www.animal-outreach.org 614-473-9244
For aditional programs: PetFBI.com Westerville Division
of Police
29 S. State St. Westerville Division of Police Westerville, Ohio 43081 29 S. State St. (614)901-6863 Westerville, Ohio 43081 Phone (614) 901-6450 Fax (614) 901-6453 www.westerville.org
Codified Ordinances Definitions Feral Cat Prevention
of Westerville · Feral: shall mean any susceptible · Spay or Neuter your cat. domestic animal living in the wild state, including, but not limited to, · Identify your cat with a rabies tag any dog or cat without a rabies tag or 531.05 Abandoning animals - No owner or keeper of a other acceptable identification as or computer chip. dog, cat or other domestic animal shall abandon approved by the Board of Health. such animal. · Provide your cat with regular · Stray: Shall mean any susceptible veterinary care. 531.10 Animal bites; reports and quarantine - animal whose owner cannot be Whenever any animal bites any person, the City determined or one that cannot be · Err on the safe side. Keep your Manager may order such animal quarantined for apprehended and isolated for cat indoors. a period extending not longer than ten days observation. from the time of the biting www.abcbirds.org (cats indoors)
531.13 Rabies immunization – any dog over three months of age must be immunized against Dealing with Feral Cats rabies as required by the regulations of the Rabies Regulations Franklin County Board of Health and displayed · Don’t feed wild/stray cats. current immunization tag on a dog's collar · An y stray, wild, exotic, or feral animal, involved in an animal bite, must be sacrificed immediately and the head · Seal up holes around home
submitted to the Ohio Department of foundations. 709.01 All Dogs and Cats must wear Rabies Tag - health laboratory for analysis, except for without tags they are considered “Feral” the following: · Cover window wells.
709.05 No person shall feed or harbor feral animals No Person Shall: · Keep pet food inside.
· Harbor, feed or sell wild, exotic, · Screen porches/patios/decks with prohibited, dangerous, or feral animals within the jurisdiction of the Franklin ¼ “ hardware cloth underground County District Board of Health. to prevent cats from nesting.
· Immunize wild animals against rabies. · Limit food placed out for birds.
Contact Animal Control with questions regarding feral/stray cats.