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<br />"Municipality" shall mean The Corporation of the Town of Lakeshore; <br /> <br />"OSPCA" Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; <br /> <br />"Owner" includes a person who keeps, possesses or harbours an animal, and <br />where the owner is a minor, a person responsible for the custody of the minor; <br /> <br />"Person" shall mean a person, firm or corporation, or any group or association of <br />persons, unless otherwise noted; <br /> <br />"Pet Shop" shall mean an establishment engaged in the sale of animals; <br /> <br />"Pet Shop Keeper" shall mean a person who has the charge, care or ownership <br />of a pet shop; <br /> <br />"Police Officer" means a member of the Ontario Provincial Police Services; <br /> <br />"Pound" means premises, regulated under the Animals for Research Act R.S.O. <br />1990, c.A.22, as amended that are used for the confinement, maintenance or <br />disposal of animals; <br /> <br />"Premises" includes the entire lot on which a building is situated; <br /> <br />"Research Facility" Animals maintained at a research facility registered under <br />the Animals for Research Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.A.22, as amended; <br /> <br />"Running at Large" shall mean to be found in any place other than the premises <br />of the owner of the animal; <br /> <br />"Zoos-Fair Exhibitions-Circuses" Animals maintained in a zoo, fair, exhibition <br />or circus operated or licensed by a Municipal or other governmental authority. <br /> <br />EXEMPTIONS <br /> <br />2. This by-law shall not apply to: <br /> <br />a) Animal Hospital - clinic <br />b) OSPCA <br />c) Pound <br />d) Zoos-Fair Exhibitions-Circuses <br />e) Research Facility <br />f) Agricultural Zoned Lands <br />g) Pet Shops with the exception of Class 3 Animals (Section 3( c) ). <br /> <br />CLASSES OF ANIMALS <br /> <br />3. a) Class 1 Animal <br /> <br />"Class 1 animal" shall mean horse, cow, mule, donkey, pony, sheep, goat and <br />swine (pig) of all species including hybrids, chicken, goose, turkey, duck and <br />any domestic fowl; <br /> <br />b) Class 2 Animal <br /> <br />"Class 2 Animal" shall mean rabbit, mink, chinchilla and ferret; <br /> <br />2 <br />