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It is unlawful for any person to:

A. Fail to provide to animals owned by that person sufficient good and wholesome food and water, proper shelter and protection from the weather, veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering, and humane care and treatment;

B. Feed feral or abandoned nonspayed/nonneutered cats, except to trap such cat for purposes of having spayed or neutered or for proper disposal. Any person feeding any feral or abandoned cat shall be responsible for such cat in the same manner as though such person owns such cat;

C. Beat, treat 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;

D. Abandon an animal owned or cared for by that person;

E. Crop a dog’s ear, except when a licensed veterinarian issues a signed certificate that the operation is necessary for the dog’s health and comfort, and in no event shall any person except a licensed veterinarian perform such an operation;

F. Sell chickens or ducklings younger than eight weeks of age in a quantity of less than twenty-five to a single purchaser;

G. 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 vertebrae as an incentive to enter into any business agreement whereby the offer was for the purpose of attracting trade;

H. 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 for the purpose of exterminating rodents;

I. Attempt to dispose of any animal or to dispose of any animal in any of the following manners:

1. Where it is reasonably likely that a violation of California Penal Code Section 597, relating to the humane treatment of animals, will occur,

2. Sell, offer for sale, barter, give away or exchange in a public place any dog, cat, fish, reptile, bird or other animals. “Public place” shall include, without limitation, streets, highways, fronts of places of businesses, carnivals, sidewalks and flea markets. (Ord. 93-11 § 2, 1993)