(A) Every owner shall provide his or her animal(s) with food and water and other sustenance necessary for maintenance of the animal’s healthy life, with adequate shelter and protection from the weather, with veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering and with humane care and treatment.
(B) It shall be unlawful to feed any animal unwholesome or unsuitable food or unclean water or to place same in unclean or unsuitable containers which are likely to cause or produce disease in the animal.
(C) It shall be unlawful to overdrive, overload, overwork, torture, torment, cruelly beat, mutilate, cruelly kill or otherwise abuse an animal or to cause or instigate any such conduct. The cropping of dogs ears and tails shall be considered mutilation or cruelty unless such cropping is performed by a registered veterinary surgeon while the dog is under an anesthetic.
(D) It shall be unlawful to cruelly work or transport animals in violation of M.C.L.A. § 750.50, as amended.
(E) No owner shall abandon his or her animal(s).
(F) It shall be unlawful to cause, instigate or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(G) No person shall willfully and maliciously expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same is liable to be eaten by another animal, except that it shall not be unlawful to expose on one’s own premises common rat poisons mixed only with vegetable substances.
(H) No person shall give away any live animal, fish, reptile or bird as a prize for, or as 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.
(I) Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report such 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 accident to the appropriate law enforcement agency or to the local humane society.
(Prior Code, § 6-11) (Ord. 91-8, passed 10-7-1991) Penalty, see § 94.99