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Article IV: Animal Care and Welfare. §1. Shelter Required. No owner shall fail to provide pets or other animals or livestock with shelter of sufficient size to allow each pet to stand,turn around,and lie down, and be of sufficient construction to shield the pets from the wind, sun, precipitation and extreme weather conditions. No owner shall fail to keep the animal or livestock shelters and enclosures on his or her property clean and in a sanitary condition. §2. Food,Water, Care, Grooming Owners and caretakers shall provide at a minimum: 1. Food of sufficient quantity and nutritive value to meet the daily requirements for the condition and size of each animal,and fresh,clean water for his or her animals in containers of sufficient weight and design as to preclude readily tipping over and spilling the contents. 2. Adequate shelter in subzero degree temperatures, excessive heat or stormy weather. 3. Sufficient grooming of animals as may be required to keep such animals free from dangerous matting, skin diseases and insect infestations which can affect the health of the animals. 4. Keep the enclosure or tethered area where the animals are kept free from unsanitary or dangerous conditions that may cause injury to the animals or in any other way endanger the health of the animals. 5. Appropriate veterinary care for treatment of injuries, parasite and disease, sufficient to maintain good health of the animals. §3. Cruelty to,Abuse and Neglect of and Abandonment of Animals or Livestock Animals Prohibited. 1. Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 28-1009 and 54-903, no person shall beat, cruelly mistreat, torment, tease, torture, cruelly neglect, abandon or otherwise abuse any animal or livestock animal. 2. No person shall cause, instigate, or permit any fight or other combat between animals or livestock animals, or between animals and humans or livestock animals and humans for fee, entertainment or exhibition. 3. No person shall cause, place or confine an animal or livestock animal or allow an animal or livestock animal to be confined in a dwelling, motor vehicle or trailer under such conditions or for such periods of time as to endanger the health or well-being of the animal or livestock P animal including, but not limited to, extremes of heat or cold, lack of food or water, or any other circumstance which may cause suffering, disability, injury or death. Article IV: Rabies Control. §1. Rabies Vaccinations. 1. Pursuant to Neb. Rev. Stat. § 71-4402, no owner of any dog or cat over the age of three (3) months shall fail to cause the same to be vaccinated against rabies by a duly licensed veterinarian. 2. No owner of any dog or cat vaccinated as required by subsection(A) shall fail to have such dog or cat revaccinated within ten days of the expiration date set forth for the original or 8