B-3.1, r. 0.1 - Regulation respecting the welfare and safety of domestic companion animals and equines

Section 11 Disposition versions

Not in force

In force: 2024-02-10

11. Where the temperature on the premises, whether indoor or outdoor, where the animal is kept is lower than 10 °C, the animal must have access to an adapted shelter, the size of which must allow it to turn around and maintain its body temperature, such as a doghouse, and the floor of which is covered with a clean and dry insulation material, made in particular from straw or untreated wood chips.

In addition, an animal kept mostly outdoors must have access at all times to a doghouse or shelter serving as such that complies with the following requirements in addition to those provided for in section 3:

(1)  it is made of corrosion resistant materials;

(2)  it has a waterproof roof and walls, a floor raised off the ground and an opening through which the animal can enter at all times;

(3)  it is designed and built so that the animal is protected from bad weather;

(4)  it has a flat, clean and dry floor.

The inside of the doghouse or shelter serving as such is not considered to be an area referred to in subparagraph 5 of the first paragraph of section 3.

O.C. 1445-2022, s. 11.