Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 532 - Board of Commercial Pet Breeders
Chapter 15 - Commercial Pet Breeder Operations Guidelines
Subchapter 3 - Minimum Housing and Care Standards
Section 532:15-3-7 - Exercise requirements

Universal Citation: OK Admin Code 532:15-3-7

Current through Vol. 41, No. 13, March 15, 2024

Commercial pet breeders shall develop, document, and follow an appropriate plan to provide pets with the opportunity for exercise. In addition, the plan must be approved by the attending veterinarian, according to reasonable professional standards. The plan shall include written procedures to be followed in providing pets the opportunity for exercise. The plan must be made available to the Board upon request. The plan, at a minimum, must comply with each of the following:

(1) Dogs housed individually. Commercial pet breeders shall provide pets over 12 weeks of age that are housed, held or maintained individually, except bitches with litters, the opportunity for regular exercise in cages, pens, or runs that provide no less than two times the required floor space in a primary enclosure for that pet, as required in this Subchapter.

(2) Dogs housed in groups. Commercial pet breeder shall not be required to provide additional opportunity for exercise to pets over 12 weeks of age that are housed, held, or maintained in groups if the pets are maintained in cages, pens, or runs that provide in total at least 100 percent of the required space for each pet if maintained separately.

(3) Contact requirement. Commercial pet breeders and attending veterinarians, in developing their plan, should consider providing positive physical contact with humans that encourages exercise through play or other similar activities. If a pet is housed, held, or maintained in a primary enclosure without sensory contact with another pet, it must be provided with positive physical contact with humans at least daily.

(4) Method of exercise. The attending veterinarian shall determine the frequency, method, and duration of the opportunity for exercise. The opportunity for exercise may be provided in a number of ways, such as:

(A) Group housing in cages, pens or runs that provide at least 100 percent of the required space for each pet if maintained separately under the minimum floor space requirements for primary enclosures required in this Subchapter;

(B) Maintaining individually housed dogs in cages, pens, or runs that provide at least twice the minimum floor space for primary enclosures required in this Subchapter; or

(C) Other similar activities.

(5) Prohibited exercise tools. Forced exercise methods or devices such as swimming, treadmills, or carousel-type devices are unacceptable for meeting the exercise requirements of this section.

Added at 28 Ok Reg 2306, eff 7-25-11

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