Chapter 6.20
CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
Sections:
6.20.010 Prohibited acts.
No owner shall fail to provide his animal with adequate food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering because of illness, injury or advanced age, and with humane care and treatment. No person shall beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, mutilate, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse any animal. No person shall cause or permit any dog fight, cock fight, or bull fight, or other combat between animals or between animals and human beings, or train or permit to be trained animals for such combat. No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal. (Ord. 263 § 30, 1978)