No person shall cruelly treat, inhumanely kill, or cause to be cruelly treated or inhumanely killed, or knowingly allow to be cruelly treated or inhumanely killed any animal by beating, torturing, tormenting, mutilating, or starving, or overworking either his or her own or another person’s animal. An owner is liable for cost of impoundment when dog is impounded for the following reasons:
(A) Failure to provide sufficient quantity of good quality and wholesome food and water;
(B) Failure to provide shelter sufficient for the animal to maintain its body heat and functions without drawing upon the necessary constituents of its own body;
(C) Failure to provide veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering;
(D) Failure to provide humane care and treatment;
(E) Failure to redeem any impounded dog whose ownership can be proven by the Animal Control Department;
(F) Left unattended inside vehicles when the outdoor temperatures are dangerous to the animals health; and
(G) No person shall knowingly abandon any animal, whether healthy, old, maimed, infirm, sick, or disabled, on their own property without daily care or by abandonment off the owner’s premises where it may suffer injury, hunger, or exposure, or become a public charge.
(Ord. passed 12-10-1991)