(A) Maltreatment. No owner shall fail to provide his or her animals with sufficient, good, and wholesome food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, and veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, and humane care and treatment. No person shall beat, cruelly treat, torment, overload, overwork, tease, or otherwise abuse or molest any animal or cause or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight, horse tripping, or other combat in which animals are involved.
(B) Abandonment. Abandonment of any animal is considered cruelty.
(Prior Code, § 6-3-4) (Ord. 352, passed 10-4-2007; Ord. 2024-01, passed 4-4-2024) Penalty, see § 6-3-18