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10. Bite: Shall mean any seizure with the teeth or mouth by an animal or livestock animal which
<br /> causes any abrasion, breaking of the skin, bleeding, or other physical harm or damage.
<br /> 11. Boarding Kennel or Stable: Pursuant to Neb.Rev. Stat. §54-626,boarding kennel or stable shall
<br /> mean any commercial facility used to house dogs,cat,horses,mules,or donkeys owned by persons
<br /> other than the owner or operator or such facility. The primary function of a boarding kennel is to
<br /> temporarily harbor animals when the owner of the animal(s) is unable to do so or to provide
<br /> training, grooming, or other non-veterinary service for consideration before returning the
<br /> animal(s)to the owner. A facility which provides such training, grooming, or other non-veterinary
<br /> service is not a boarding kennel or stable unless animal(s) owned by persons other than the
<br /> operator of such facility are housed at such facility overnight. Veterinary clinics, animal control
<br /> facilities, animal rescues, and nonprofit animal shelters are not boarding kennels or stables.
<br /> 12. Casual Breeder: Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §28-1008,casual breeder shall mean any person or
<br /> entity, other than a commercial cat or dog breeder, who offers for sale, trades, leases, or receives
<br /> any consideration for,one or more animals from a litter produced from an animal owned or leased
<br /> by such person or entity.
<br /> 13. Circus: Shall mean a commercial variety show featuring animal or livestock animal acts for public
<br /> entertainment.
<br /> 14. Commercial Animal Establishment: Shall mean any pet shop, grooming shop, auction facility,
<br /> riding school or boarding, breeding or other kennel, stable, cattery, aviary, performing animal or
<br /> livestock animal exhibition, or a breeding or boarding kennel with the following exceptions:
<br /> a. An animal shelter;
<br /> b. A veterinary hospital or clinic;
<br /> c. A commercial facility that sells, slaughters, or processes animals; or
<br /> d. A commercial or academic animal research facility.
<br /> 15. Commercial Cat or Dog Breeder or Dealer: Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §54-626,commercial cat
<br /> or dog breeder shall mean a person engaged in the business of selling cats or dogs who sells,
<br /> exchanges, leases, or in any way offers to sell, exchange, lease or transfer thirty-one or more cats
<br /> or dogs in a twelve-month period beginning on April 1 of each year, who owns or harbors four or
<br /> more cats or dogs, intended for breeding, in a twelve-month period beginning on April 1 of each
<br /> year, whose cats or dogs produce four or more litters within a twelve-month period beginning on
<br /> April 1 of each year,or who knowingly sells,exchanges or leases cats or dogs for later retail sale or
<br /> brokered trading. Dealer shall mean any person or entity who is not a commercial cat or dog
<br /> breeder or a pet shop who is engaged in the business of buying for resale or selling or exchanging,
<br /> cats or dogs as a principal agent or who claims to be so engaged. A person or entity who sells,
<br /> exchanges or leases thirty or fewer cats or dogs within a twelve-month period beginning on April 1
<br /> of each year is not a dealer.
<br /> 16. Cruelly mistreat: Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§28-1008 and 54-617, cruelly mistreat shall mean
<br /> to knowingly and mintentionally kill, maim, disfigure, torture, beat, mutilate, burn, scald, or
<br /> otherwise inflict harm upon any animal or livestock animal
<br /> 17. Cruelly neglect: Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§28-1008 and 54-617, cruelly neglect shall mean
<br /> to fail to provide any animal or livestock animal in one's care,whether as owner or custodian,with
<br /> food, water, medical care and/or other care as is reasonably necessary for the animal's health
<br /> and/or welfare.
<br /> 18. Dangerous Animal: Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §54- 617, dangerous animal shall mean any
<br /> animal or livestock animal that has killed a human being,has inflicted injury on a human being that
<br /> requires medical treatment, has been previously determined to be a potentially dangerous animal
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