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Unlawful behavior shall include, but not be limited to, any of the following:

(1) Torturing, beating, maiming, poisoning, mutilating, injuring, or crippling any animal;

(2) Failure to provide any animal in one’s charge with access to food, water, shelter, space, veterinary care, air and ventilation, sanitation, sunlight, exercise, protection from extreme heat or cold sufficient to maintain the animal’s proper weight, nutrition, and health;

(3) Keeping, using, owning, or possessing any property, paraphernalia, or animals for the purpose of animal fighting or animal baiting; giving, receiving, or wagering money in relation to any animal fighting or baiting; causing an animal to fight; or training an animal to fight other animals;

(4) Tormenting or abusing any animal;

(5) Abandonment or neglect of any animal over whom a person has ownership, charged care, custody, or possession. Abandonment shall include the leaving unattended of animals at a commercial or public establishment in an effort to give away or sell such animal;

(6) Confinement, placement, or transport of an animal in any vehicle in a manner that jeopardizes the safety of the animal or the public or which could subject the animal to injury or suffering:

(a) When transporting any living animal on the outside part of any vehicle, such animal shall be caged, harnessed, or enclosed, keeping such animal from falling or being thrown from the vehicle transporting it;

(7) Driving or working an animal when such animal is unfit for such driving or labor;

(8) Driving, working, or loading an animal in any manner or quantity so as to cause suffering to the animal;

(9) Dyeing or artificially coloring any animal with any toxic paint or chemical or with intent to alter the identity of any animal for unlawful purposes or administering or purposefully exposing any animal to caustic, noxious, or poisonous substance;

(10) Any violation as defined by Chapter 16.52 RCW.