§ 10-2. Cruelty prohibited.

(a)

No owner shall fail to provide his animals with sufficient 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.

(b)

No person shall abandon, cruelly beat, torment, overload, overwork, underfeed or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate, or permit any combat between animals.

(c)

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 not be unlawful for a person to expose on his own property, common rat poison mixed only with a vegetable substance.

(d)

No animal may be left unattended in any vehicle without proper ventilation.

(e)

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 police department.

(Code 1979, § 4-2; Ord. No. 92-16, 6-15-1992)