§ 6-1. Animal care.

(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 beat, cruelly ill-treat, torment, overload, overwork or otherwise abuse an animal, or cause, instigate or permit any dogfight, cockfight, bullfight or other combat between animals or between animals and humans.

(c)

No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal.

(d)

Chickens or ducklings younger than eight weeks of age may not be sold in quantities of less than 25 to a single purchaser.

(e)

No person shall give away any live animal, fish, reptile or bird as a prize for, or as an inducement to enter any contest, game or other competition; or as an inducement to enter a place of amusement; or offer such vertebrate as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade.

(f)

No person shall set within the city any leg-hold traps other than the type generally recognized as rodent control devices.

(g)

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 vegetable substances.

(Code 1964, § 4-3; Ord. No. 2162, § 7, 3-23-1981)

State law reference

Cruelty to animals, R.R.S. 1943, § 28-1004 et seq.