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It is forbidden:

1. To so neglect an animal in one’s ownership, care, or accommodation that it thereby experiences appreciable pain or appreciable damage;

2. To use an animal unnecessarily for what clearly exceeds its powers or causes it appreciable pain or which it—in consequence of its condition—is obviously not capable of;

3. To use an animal for demonstrations, filmmaking, spectacles, or other public events to the extent that these events cause the animal appreciable pain or appreciable damage to health;

4. To use a fragile, ill, overworked or old animal for which further life is a torment for any other purpose than to cause or procure a rapid, painless death;

5. To put out one’s domestic animal for the purpose of getting rid of it;

6. To set or test the power of dogs on cats, foxes, and other animals;

7. To shorten the ears or the tail of a dog over two weeks old. This is allowed if it is done with anesthesia;

8. To shorten the tail of a horse. This is allowed if it is to remedy a defect or illness of the tail and is done by a veterinarian and under anesthesia;

9. To perform a painful operation on an animal in an unprofessional manner or without anesthesia, or if anesthesia in a particular case is impossible according to veterinary standards;

10. To kill an animal on a farm for fur otherwise than with anesthesia or in a way that is, in any case, painless;

11. To force-feed fowl;

12. To tear out or separate the thighs of living frogs.

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