Fulton Animal care ordinance (§ 14-16)

(a) No owner shall fail to provide his animals with sufficient wholesome and nutritious food and water in sufficient quantities; proper air, shelter space and protection from the weather; veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering; and 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) Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall stop at once and render such assistance as may be possible and shall immediately report such injury or death to the appropriate law enforcement agency or to the local humane society. Any animal that, in fact, has been so handed over to animal control officer authorities after being injured, if the owner cannot be ascertained, may be humanely euthanized by a licensed veterinarian or the animal control officer, if such injury is of such severity that the animal is in pain and unlikely to survive.

(e) No person shall expose any known poisonous substance, whether mixed with food or not, so that the substance shall be liable to be eaten by an animal, provided that it shall be lawful for a person to expose on his own property common poison mixed only with vegetable substances.