(a) No owner shall fail to provide his animals with sufficient wholesome and nutritious food, water in sufficient quantities, proper air, shelter space and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering and humane care and treatment.
(b) No person shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.
(c) No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal.
(d) No person shall crop a dog’s ears or dock a dog’s tail, except when a licensed veterinarian issues a signed certificate that the operation is necessary for the dog’s health and comfort. In no event shall any person except a licensed veterinarian perform such an operation.
(e) 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, as an inducement to enter a place of amusement; or as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.
(f) Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render such 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, such operator shall at once report the accident to the appropriate law enforcement agency or to the local Humane Society.
(g) 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 be unlawful for a person to expose on his property common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substance.
(Ord. 93-005. Passed 4-5-93.)