Go to

http://www.colorado.gov/cs/Satellite/Agriculture-Main/CDAG/1167928256523

for the online form that you can fill in and email to the Department of Agriculture, Animal Industries Division, 700 Kipling Street, Suite 4000, Lakewood, CO 80215 Phone: 1-303-239-4161- This is also the number you call to register a complaint about anything having to do with the care of pet animals by entities required to be licensed by this State law. These entities are listed below.

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RETAIL WHOLESALE PET ANIMAL DEALERSHIP: "Pet animal dealership" as used herein means any place or premises used in whole or in part, whether on a permanent or temporary basis, for the sole or exclusive purpose of either wholesale commerce or retail sale, trading, bartering, or otherwise transferring pet animals to the public.

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RETAIL AQUARIUM ONLY: Facilities that trade, sell, barter, or otherwise transfer only fish or other aquatic animals, not including reptiles and amphibians, to the public.

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PET ANIMAL BOARDING AND/OR TRAINING FACILITIES: A facility that cares for or houses pet animals in the absence of the owner or a facility that cares for pet animals in training in the absence of the owner or such owner’s designee and receives compensation for said training services. Training services include housing, training, handling, showing, grooming and transporting pet animals. Such training services shall be for the purposes of exhibition, behavior modification or enhancement, field trial or lure course training, guard dog training, or any other type of training services.

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PET HANDLER: A person who does not maintain a central permanent facility for the purposes of training or housing dogs, but maintains a mobile or temporary facility for the purposes of transporting or training a pet in the absence of the owner and receives compensation for their services.

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NETWORK BOARDING FACILITY: A facility that offers pet animal boarding services to a pet owner for the purposes of boarding a pet or a family’s pets within a residence that is a part of a group of residence facilities operating under a single management. The boarding services provided by each family residence facility are to be under the direction of a manager who arranges the contacts between the pet’s owner and the individual family residence facility networked within the group.

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PET GROOMING: A permanent or mobile commercial establishment where a pet animal may be cleaned, styled or have appearance maintained.

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DOG BREEDER (SMALL SCALE): Dog Breeder means any firm, person, or corporation which is engaged in the operation of breeding and raising dogs for the purpose of selling, trading, bartering, giving away, or otherwise transfers AT LEAST TWENTY-FIVE (25) AND NO MORE THAN NINETY-NINE (99) DOGS PER LICENSE YEAR OR PRODUCES MORE THAN 2 LITTERS PER LICENSE YEAR. Exclusions: racing greyhounds that are not intended to be companion pets.

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DOG BREEDER (LARGE SCALE): Dog breeder means any firm, person, or corporation which is engaged in the operation of breeding and raising dogs for the purpose of selling, trading, bartering, giving away, or otherwise transferring MORE THAN NINETY-NINE (99) DOGS per license year. Exclusions: racing greyhounds that are not intended to be companion pets.

CAT BREEDER: Cat breeder means any facility which produces or transfers more than 3 litters or 24 cats per license year.

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COMMON BIRD BREEDER: Common Bird Breeder means any facility engaged in the operation of breeding and raising birds and transfers more than 30 birds per license year, with 10 or fewer of these 30 birds being from the uncommon category (all psittacine birds except budgerigars, cockatiels and lovebirds).

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UNCOMMON BIRD BREEDER: Uncommon Bird Breeder means any facility engaged in the operation of breeding and raising birds and transfers more than 30 birds per license year, with 10 or more of these 30 birds being from the uncommon category (all psittacine birds except budgerigars, cockatiels and lovebirds).

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SMALL ANIMAL BREEDER: Small animal breeders requiring licensure are those breeders that transfer more than the following limits per license year. Rat, mouse, gerbil and hamster breeders: 200; Rabbit and guinea pig breeders: 65; Hedgehog, chinchilla and sugarglider breeders: 24.

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ANIMAL RESCUE: "Pet Animal Rescue" as used herein means any person who accepts pet animals for the purpose of finding permanent adoptive homes for animals and does not maintain a central facility for keeping animals, but rather uses a system of fostering in private homes, or boarding or keeping in licensed pet animal facilities.

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ANIMAL SHELTER: "Animal Shelter" - a public or private facility which, minimally, houses animals for impoundment purposes; or a centralized private facility which accepts or houses more than 15 dogs or cats or more than the limits on transfers for hobby breeders as defined in PACFA Colorado Statute 35-80-102, 24 ferrets per year or other animal species except for fish for future disposition including harboring. Foster home sites and mobile adoption sites may be utilized in the operation of the animal shelter.