Animals may not be maltreated, seriously neglected or needlessly overworked.
2 It is also forbidden:
a. to put animals to death cruelly;
b. to kill animals for amusement or wantonly, especially by using tame or captive animals for target-practice;
c. to organise fights between or with animals, in the course of which the latter are maltreated or killed;
d. to use live animals to train dogs or test their aggressiveness, except when dogs are being trained or tested in an artificial
burrow, under the conditions prescribed by the Federal Council;
e. to use animals for exhibitions, advertising, film-making or similar purposes when this plainly causes them pain, suffering
or injury;
f. to seek to rid oneself of an animal which depends on human care for survival by releasing or abandoning it;
g. to cut off the claws of cats and other felines, to clip or prick the ears of dogs, to remove the vocal organs or employ other
methods to prevent animals from giving tongue or reacting to pain in another audible manner;
h. to administer substances designed to stimulate the physical capacities of animals for sporting purposes (doping).
3 The Federal Council may prohibit the use of other practices on animals.