(A) No owner shall fail to provide his or her animal with sufficient 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, torment, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal.
(C) Any person who, as an operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal, shall immediately stop and render such assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report such injury or death to the animal's owner. If the owner cannot be ascertained or located such operator shall at once report the accident to the Police Department.
(D) 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 to his or her own property common rat or mice poison.
(E) No person shall allow animal feces to accumulate in any yard, pen or premises in or upon which such animal shall be confined or kept, so that it becomes offensive to those residing in the vicinity.
(F) The owner shall confine any female dog in heat within a building or other secure enclosure, in such a manner that the dog will not be accessible to other dogs except for planned breeding, and will not attract other male dogs.
(Ord. 2008-11, passed 6-9-08) Penalty, see § 10.99