6.04.020 Cruelty to animals.
A. No person may knowingly wound, injure, torment, abuse, mutilate, torture, or inhumanely kill any animal.
B. No person may intentionally poison any dog, cat, or other domestic animal, or distribute or place poison in a manner or location where the distributor knows or should reasonably know that the poison will be accessible to a domestic animal.
C. No person may abandon any animal by releasing the animal to forage for itself or by confining or restraining the animal for a period in excess of 18 consecutive hours in a place where there is not a custodian who has assumed the responsibility of providing sufficient food and water.
D. The owner or custodian of an animal shall provide food and water sufficient to maintain the animal in a healthy condition, and adequate and proper shelter for the animal, to protect the animal from weather. Shelters maintained for animals kept outside of a residential dwelling shall meet the following standards:
1. Animals shall not be overcrowded;
2. Animals shall be protected from excessive heat or cold or have access to habitat as protection from extreme weather conditions;
3. All structures, pens, coops, or yards where an animal is immediately confined shall have appropriate bedding or sufficient area to prevent the animal from being forced to lie in wet or unsanitary conditions, be devoid of rodents and varmints, and free of extreme objectionable odor. [Ord. 98-29 §4, 1999; Ord. 96-12 §2, 1996; Ord. 86-16-O(A) §2. Formerly §6.04.010].