(A) It shall be unlawful for any owner or keeper to willfully fail to provide 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. It shall be unlawful for any person to heat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse animals, or cause or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(B) It shall be unlawful for any owner or keeper to restrain any animal with any collar, rope, chain or other device which causes a break in the skin of the animal or is so tight as to severly restrict swallowing or breathing.
(C) When an owner or keeper confines a dog or cat at his or her residence or elsewhere whether by choice or by reason of provisions contained in this chapter, it shall be unlawful for him or her to allow the area in which the animal lives to become unsanitary through failure to practice effective cleaning procedures. Excrement shall be removed frequently to preclude the breeding and harborage of flies and vermin and disposed of in the county landfill or buried. The area shall be kept lined when necessary to minimize excessive odors.
(Ord. passed 1-10-1990) Penalty, see § 90.999