It is unlawful for any person to beat, cruelly treat, torment, overload, overwork, abandon, or otherwise abuse any animal or cause or permit such animal to be abused or cruelly treated in any manner; to fail to provide an animal with adequate and wholesome food and water, protection from the elements, opportunity for exercise, or adequate veterinary care; or to otherwise neglect or treat any animal in such a manner as to endanger its health or cause it to suffer. Ownership of said animal shall not be a justifiable defense for such acts, or for a violation of this section. (Ord. 233 Art. VII §2, 1975; Ord. 993 §12, 1993)

It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly poison any domestic animal or livestock, or to knowingly distribute poison or toxicant on public or private property in any manner whatsoever that causes the poisoning of any domestic animal or livestock. The poisoning of bats, rodents, and insects is permitted so long as such poisoning conforms with the requirements and procedures of all applicable state and federal laws. (Ord. 233 Art. VII §8, 1975; Ord. 852 §2, 1989; Ord. 993 §12, 1993)

It is unlawful for any person to train or keep any animal for the purpose of fighting, to cause, instigate, or encourage any animal to fight or to enter into combat in any manner, or to maintain any place where animals are suffered to fight for exhibition, wager, or sport. (Ord. 233 Art. VII §10, 1975; Ord. 993 §12, 1993)

It is unlawful for any person at any time within the city to intentionally frighten, shoot at, wound, kill, take, capture, ensnare, net, trap, or in any other manner molest or injure any song or insectivorous bird, including, but not limited to, the following: any robin, lark, whippoorwill, finch, sparrow, thrush, wren, martin, swallow, snowbird, bobolink, redwinged blackbird, crow, raven, oriole, kingbird, mockingbird, or song sparrow; or in any manner to intentionally molest or injure the nest, eggs, young, or body of any such bird; or to have in possession the nest, eggs, young, or body of any such bird. (Ord. 233 Art. VII §11, 1975; Ord. 993 §12, 1993)