Specifications include, but are not limited to: a. Vendor will provide, at its own expense, a suitable and adequate animal care facility for the proper handling of lost, stray or otherwise impounded animals, which care facility shall be supervised by a competent person or persons. Vendor shall be open daily at such hours as Vendor shall determine, provided it shall be open for the public to recover animals a minimum of six hours per day during normal business hours every weekday, and with varying, but advertised weekend hours. Vendor will provide 24 hour access to Animal Control and Police Officers for the impoundment of animals. b. Vendor agrees to accept all domestic animals, including unowned dog and cat bite cases, picked up or delivered to Vendor by an OPPD Animal Control Officer, Police Officer or official designee, with the exception of cats who are not ill or injured; provided, however, Vendor shall not have to accept large animals such as horses, cattle, deer, farm animals or other large, vicious or dangerous animals not customarily sheltered by Vendor. c. Vendor agrees to provide holding space for animals required for rabies observation. Unowned animals will be held for rabies observation by Vendor and billed to the city accordingly. Owned animals can be held for rabies observation period or transferred and held at a Johnson County Veterinary Hospital or maintained on home owner quarantine if so deemed appropriate by the City. d. Vendor shall first refer all persons and calls concerning strays found in City to the City’s Animal Control division. Vendor agrees it will not accept an animal on behalf of the City without first obtaining authorization from the City, but does maintain the right to accept pets from citizens in said city for an appropriate relinquishment fee paid to Vendor by the citizen should the City’s Animal Control division decline impoundment of the pet under the City’s contract. The City will only be billed for animals they bring in or approve for public surrender.
