Louisiana Revised Statutes Tit. 14, § 102. Definitions; cruelty to animals

(1) “Cruel” means every act or failure to act whereby unjustifiable physical pain or suffering is caused or permitted.

(2) “Abandons” means to completely forsake and desert an animal previously under the custody or possession of a person without making reasonable arrangements for its proper care, sustenance, and shelter.

(3) “Proper food” means providing each animal with daily food of sufficient quality and quantity to prevent unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering by the animal.

(4) “Proper water” means providing each animal with daily water of sufficient quality and quantity to prevent unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering by the animal.

(5) “Proper shelter” means providing each animal with adequate shelter from the elements as required to prevent unnecessary or unjustifiable suffering by the animal.

(6) “Proper veterinary care” means providing each animal with veterinary care sufficient to prevent unnecessary or unjustifiable physical pain or suffering by the animal.

(7) “Livestock” means cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, mules, burros, asses, other livestock of all ages, farm-raised cervidae species, and farm-raised ratite species.

(8) “Public livestock exhibition” means any place, establishment, or facility commonly known as a “livestock market”, “livestock auction market”, “sales ring”, “stockyard”, or the like, operated for compensation or profit as a public market for livestock, consisting of pens, or other enclosures, and their appurtenances, in which livestock are received, held, sold, or kept for sale or shipment. “Public livestock exhibition” also means any public exhibition or sale of livestock or a livestock show.

(9) “Tampers” means any of the following: