The following terms are defined for use in this chapter.
Animal means a nonhuman vertebrate.
At Large means any off the premises of the owner and not under the control of a competent person, restrained within a motor vehicle, or housed in a veterinary hospital or kennel. Cats means both male and female cats, six months of age or over, including both spayed and unspayed cats. Dogs means both male and female dogs, including both spayed and unspayed dogs. Owner means any person owning, keeping, sheltering or harboring an animal. It is unlawful for a person who impounds or confines, in any place, an animal, excluding livestock, to fail to supply the animal during confinement with a sufficient quantity of food or water, or to fail to provide a confined dog or cat with adequate shelter, or to torture, deprive of necessary sustenance, mutilate, beat, or kill such animal by any means which causes unjustified pain, distress or suffering.