The Department of Animal Services enforces the County's Animal Ordinance and the Florida Laws relating to animals, provides an animal adoption program, picks up and shelters stray, sick and/or injured animals, offers spay and neuter vouchers to pet owners who have their animals spayed or neutered, issues rabies registration tags, investigates animal cruelty and neglect, inspects and provides permits to pet dealers, kennels, catteries, guard dog companies, and animal rescue adoption organizations, and quarantines animals that have bitten someone. The department also picks up dead small animals on county right-of-ways.