Subject to R.C. § 955.261(A)(2) and (3), a dog that is chasing or approaching in a menacing fashion or apparent attitude of attack that attempts to bite or otherwise endanger, or that kills or injures a person, or a dog that chases, threatens, harasses, injures, or kills livestock, poultry, other domestic animal, or other animal that is the property of another person, can be killed at the time of that chasing, threatening, harassment, approaching, attempt, killing or injury. If, in attempting to kill such a dog, a person wounds it, the person is not liable to prosecution under the criminal laws or ordinances that punish cruelty to animals. Nothing in this section precludes a law enforcement officer from killing a dog that attacks a police dog as defined in R.C. § 2921.321.
(Ord. 14-043, passed 7-1-14)