Shelter Services: To provide Ellis County an animal control shelter and equipment, as well as animal shelter services, as may be necessary to properly receive, maintain, care for and provide for the appropriate disposition of all domestic animals that come within the legal animal control authority and responsibility of the County. Receive and evaluate animals, feed, provide water, emergency medical attention, health and condition evaluation, administer preventative medicine, clean kennels and cages, clean and disinfect animal spaces, provide shelter for animals, provide necessary grooming, flea control, tick control, rodent control, provide euthanasia when deemed necessary, animal body storage and removal, animal exercise.
