(A) No owner shall fail to provide his or her animals with good and wholesome food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering and with humane care and treatment. If any animal is restrained by a chain, leash or similar restraint, such restraint shall not be less than ten feet in length and either on a swivel designed to prevent the animal from choking or strangling itself or else on a chain run. No person shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork or otherwise chase any animal, or cause to permit any dog fight, cock fight or other combat between animals. No owner shall abandon an animal, abandonment consisting of leaving such animal for a period in excess of 24 hours without providing for someone to feed, water and check on the animal’s condition. If an animal is found so abandoned, such animal may be taken by the dog warden, police or humane officer and impounded in the animal pound or an animal shelter maintained by a humane society and there confined in a humane manner. Such animal, if taken from private property, shall be kept for not less than ten days, with the same procedure otherwise to be followed as in § 92.03 of this chapter. If an animal is so abandoned, the owner, rather the person, if any, whom he or she has charged with the animal’s care, shall be liable for citation for violation of this section. No person shall crop a dog’s ears, except a licensed veterinarian.
(B) No person shall place any poisonous substance which may be harmful to any animal, as described herein, in any location where it may be readily found and eaten by such animal.
(1991 Code, § 3-7) (Ord. 840.4, passed --) Penalty, see § 92.99