Every owner and owner’s agent residing within the unincorporated area of the county shall ensure that each animal of the owner:
(A) Is kept in a clean, sanitary and healthy manner and is not confined so as to be forced to stand, sit, lie or eat in its own excrement, except for normal and accepted animal husbandry practices and confined feeding operations for livestock;
(B) Has sufficient and wholesome food and water, which is proper and nutritional for that species of animal;
(C) If ill, diseased or injured, receives proper veterinary care as necessary to promote the good health of the animal and prevent the transmittal of disease to other animals or humans;
(D) Is not beaten, ill-treated, overloaded, over-worked, tormented or otherwise abused or neglected, or involved in any dog fight, cockfight, bullfight, combat or other fight between animals or between animals and humans;
(E) Is not altered in any manner by anyone other than a veterinarian, except for normal and accepted animal husbandry practices;
(F) Is not abandoned, neglected or tortured;
(G) Does not become a dangerous animal;
(H) Is properly under restraint and not at large;
(I) Is not induced or encouraged to perform through the use of chemical, mechanical, electrical or manual devices in a situation which will cause or is likely to cause excessive physical injury or suffering;
(J) Does not, without provocation, molest, attack or otherwise interfere with the freedom of movement of persons in a public right-of-way;
(K) Does not chase or interfere with motor vehicles in a public right-of-way;
(L) Does not wander off the property of its owner or owner’s agent and attack other animals;
(M) Does not damage, soil, defile, destroy or defecate on any property other than that of its owner or owner’s agent;
(N) Remains under restraint when in heat so as to prevent unintentional breeding;
(O) For livestock, has demonstrable protection from the elements to include windbreaks and shade; and
(P) For domestic animals:
(1) Lives in or has access to a structure which will protect the animal from the weather and allow the animal to stand, sit, turn around and lie down without restriction;
(2) Has access to solid floor space in at least half of the cage if housed in a cage with a wire floor; and
(3) Is provided with reasonable opportunity for exercise at least two times a day for not less than one-half hour each time.
(Ord. 09-396, passed 12-7-2009) Penalty, see § 90.99