(A) No owner shall fail to provide the person's animals with sufficient, good and wholesome food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering and with humane care and treatment.
(B) No person shall beat, cruelly ill treat, torment, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate or permit any dogfight or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(C) No owner of an animal shall abandon the animal.
(D) No person except a licensed veterinarian who is qualified to perform such an operation shall crop a dog's ears.
(E) No person shall give away any live animal, reptile or bird as a prize for, or an inducement to enter, any contest, game or other competition, or as an inducement to enter a place of amusement or offer the vertebrate as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.
(F) Any person operating a motor vehicle who strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render the assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report the injury or death to the animal's owner. In the event the owner cannot be ascertained and located, the operator shall at once report the incident to the Police Department.
(G) No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be liable to be eaten by any animal, provided that it shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on the person's own property common rat poison mixed with vegetable substances.
(H) It shall be unlawful to raise any kind of fowl, other than chickens, pigeons, parakeets, parrots, mynah birds and canaries within the city.
(I) It shall be unlawful to raise or keep horses, cattle, sheep, goats, swine and other farm animals within the city.
(J) It shall be unlawful for an owner or any other person willfully to injure or kill any animal by any means causing it unnecessary fright or pain, and it shall further be unlawful for the owner or any person, by neglect or otherwise, to cause or allow any animal to endure pain, suffering or injury.
(1985 Code, § 4-6) (Ord. 94-005, passed 9-13-1994; Am. Ord. 2023-008, passed 3-14-2023) Penalty, see § 10.99