As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:(1) 'Animal' means a domesticated living creature or a wild creature previously captured;(2) 'Cruelty,' 'abuse,' and 'neglect' mean every act, omission, or neglect whereby unreasonable physical pain, suffering, or death is caused or permitted;(3) 'Owner' means any person who is the legal owner, keeper, harborer, possessor, or the actual custodian of an animal. 'Owner' includes corporations as well as individuals; and(4) 'Reasonable suspicion' means that it is objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a suspicion, based upon facts, that could cause a reasonable person in a like position, drawing, when appropriate, on the person's training and experience, to suspect animal cruelty, abuse, or neglect.Acts 2006, ch. 736, § 2.
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