(A) No person shall beat, cruelly ill treat, torment, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate or permit any dog fight, cock fight, or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(B) No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal.
(C) 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 such animal or bird as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.
(D) No person may sell, offer for sale, barter or give away as a pet or a novelty any rabbit or any baby chick, duckling or other fowl which has been dyed, colored or otherwise treated to impart an artificial color thereto. Baby chicks or ducklings shall not be sold, offered for sale, bartered, or given away as pets or novelties.
(E) No person may knowingly poison or cause to be poisoned any domestic animal. It shall not be unlawful for a person to expose on his own property common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substance.
(F) No person shall keep or permit to be kept on his premises any wild or vicious animal for display or for exhibition purposes. This section shall not be construed to apply to zoological parks, performing animal exhibitions, or circuses.
(G) No person shall keep or permit to be kept any wild animal as a pet. A temporary permit shall be obtained for the keeping, care and protection of an animal too young to survive without the presence of the adults native to the area and that has been deemed to be homeless.
(H) No person shall kill or wound, attempt to kill or wound, or take the eggs or young of any game or song bird.
(1997 Code, § 13.14) (Ord. 75-4, passed 6-26-1975)