6.08.010 Cruelty to animals prohibited.
A. No person shall intentionally injure or kill an animal unless:
1. The act committed is done humanely in conformity with applicable federal or state law; or
2. The act is necessary to defend a human being or an animal from attack.
B. No person shall intentionally or recklessly wound, injure, torment, poison, provoke, otherwise abuse or unnecessarily overwork an animal, or procure or attempt any of such acts.
C. No person who owns, keeps or harbors an animal shall fail to provide humane animal care or abandon the animal by failing to provide humane animal care.
D. No person shall throw or deposit any poisonous substance on any exposed public or private place where it may endanger any animal.
E. No person shall intentionally abandon, harass, torture or kill an animal, or encourage an animal to fight with another animal for sport, training or entertainment.
F. A person shall not intentionally capture a domestic or domesticated animal with any type of trap that physically harms the animal, including, but not limited to, steel jaw traps, snares and spring traps, except an authorized city, state, or federal employee or agent. (Ord. 631 § 5, 2004; Ord. 538 § 5, 1999; Ord. 277 § 4, 1983)