No person shall be engaged in or employed at cock fighting, dog fighting, pitting one animal to fight against another of the same or different kind, or any similar cruelty, or receive money for the admission of any person, or shall knowingly purchase an admission, to any place kept for any such purpose, or use, train or possess a dog or other animal for the purpose of seizing, detaining or maltreating any other domestic animal.
(1968 Code §6-5.)