(A) Owners shall keep animals under restraint at all times. Owners whose animals constitute a public nuisance are in violation of this chapter. Owners of female dogs in heat, which are not restrained to prevent unplanned breeding, are also in violation of this chapter.
(B) (1) Every owner of an animal shall keep such animal in a clean, sanitary, and healthy area of sufficient size for the animal.
(2) No animal shall be confined in an area so as to be forced to stand, sit, or lie in its own excreta.
(C) Every owner of an animal shall not confine an animal in an area littered with debris or any other obstacles which would impair, prohibit, or reduce the animal’s movement, or cause injury within such area of confinement.
(D) Every owner of an animal shall provide proper shelter.
(E) Every owner of an animal shall not tether an animal by choker collar, or on a chain or similar means of restraint less than ten feet in length, or of such weight as to prevent an animal from moving about or causing injury to such animal.
(F) Every owner of an animal shall provide said animal with sufficient, wholesome food and clean water.
(G) Every owner of an animal shall provide humane and veterinary care and counsel for sick, injured, or diseased animals, and shall segregate such animals from the healthy so as to prevent transmittal of any sickness or disease.
(H) No person shall beat, cruelly ill treat, torment/overload, overwork, or otherwise abuse or mistreat any animal.
(I) No person shall abandon any animal on any place public or private, including any public or private highway, or road, or upon the property of another.
(Ord. 1995-01, passed 1-9-1995) Penalty, see § 91.99