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2006

This ordinance bans direct-point tethering.

9.04.020 – Animal care.

1. No owner shall fail to provide his animals with sufficient good and wholesome food and water; shelter which provides protection from the weather including four sides with opening, roof and floor; veterinary care when needed to prevent suffering; and with humane care and treatment.
2. No person shall cruelly treat any animal in violation of the laws of the state of Arkansas.
3. No owner of an animal shall abandon such animal.
4. Any person who, as the operator of a motor vehicle, strikes a domestic animal shall, within a reasonable time, report the accident to the appropriate law enforcement agency or to the local humane society.
5. No person shall expose any known poisonous substance or toxic chemical, whether mixed with food or not, so that the same shall be liable to be eaten by any animal; provided that it is not unlawful for a person to expose, on his property, common rat poison mixed only with vegetable substance.
6. Any person owning, possessing or keeping a dog shall keep the dog securely confined behind a fence or otherwise restrained upon the person’s property by adequate means to prevent the dog’s escape; or shall effectively control the dog, whether on or off the person’s property, by means of a leash or other proper method of supervised restraint from which the dog cannot escape.
7. Chaining. Direct-point chaining or tethering of dogs to any object is prohibited.

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2007

Section 72.10 Humane treatment for companion animals.

(c) Except as provided herein and in Section 72.34(b) no person shall restrain a dog by means of tethering, fastening, chaining, or tying the dog to a stationary object for more than 3 hours in a 24 hour period. If a dog is tethered the owner shall use a tether that weighs less than 118 the total weight of the dog and that is at least three times the body length of the dog from nose to the end of the body excluding the tail. A dog may be attached to a running line, pulley, or trolley system provided a choke or pinch collar is not used.

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Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Dr. Alka Chandna regarding an incident in which two bats died after being trapped in a cage that was run through a high-temperature cage washer at a University of California–Berkeley laboratory:

UC-Berkeley doesn’t deserve one more penny of taxpayer money after staff negligence claimed yet more animal lives, this time causing almost unimaginable pain, fear, and agony. According to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) report, laboratory staff failed to follow the school’s own standard operating procedures and simply looked into a cage in an attempt to ensure that all bats had been removed. As a result, two bats who had been missed and remained inside were scalded to death when the cage was run through a high-temperature washer. These sentient beings, who are fully capable of feeling pain, endured water temperatures of at least 180 degrees before dying. If UC-Berkeley laboratory staff are incapable of following even their own SOPs, the school doesn’t deserve the more than $144 million in taxpayer money it received from the National Institutes of Health in 2022. PETA has filed an official complaint with the agency, urging it to withdraw its funding.

This is only the latest in a string of USDA citations, prompting PETA to take action against UC-Berkeley. In May 2022, we filed a complaint after a young monkey suffocated and died when their neck became entangled in a loop of chain. In June 2022, two monkeys became dehydrated after staff failed to remember to give them water. And in October 2019, inappropriate handling left a bat crippled. UC-Berkeley received more than $144 million in taxpayer money from the National Institutes of Health in 2022. If staff cannot or will not even maintain minimum standards of animal care, they have no right to taxpayer money.

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