A person shall be guilty of cruelty to any animal:
A. By overloading, overdriving, overworking, beating, torturing, tormenting, mutilating, or killing any animal, or causing or knowingly allowing the same to be done.
B. By working any old, maimed, infirm, sick, or disabled animal, or causing or knowingly allowing the same to be done.
C. By failing to provide any animal in his or her charge or custody with sufficient wholesome and nutritious food and potable water, shelter from weather, or veterinary care to prevent diseases, maladies or other health problems.
D. By abandoning any animal under the following circumstances:
1. When it is old, maimed, infirm, sick or disabled: or
2. On any highway, public way or in another other place where it may suffer injury, hunger or exposure, or
E. By inducing or otherwise allowing a fight between any animal in his or her charge or custody and any other animal or human.
F. By failing to provide a safe and sanitary living environment.
G. Leaving any animal in a motor vehicle, trailer, or other location which may place the health of the animal in a threatening situation due to exposure to heat or cold is prohibited.
(Ord. 2015-15, 2014).