4-41.

    A.  It shall be lawful for any person to kill any animal of the
family canidae or the family felidae found chasing livestock off the
premises of the owner of such animal.
The owner of any such animal that kills or injures any livestock shall be jointly and severally liable to any person so damaged, to the full amount of the injury done. The court, before whom a recovery is had for any such injury, shall declare the animal found to have occasioned the injury to be a
common nuisance, and order the defendant to kill or cause to be
killed, such animal within twenty-four (24) hours after the rendition
of the judgment.  Appeals shall be allowed in all such cases.  Such
appeals shall be prosecuted in such manner as prescribed by general
statutes governing appeals.

 B.  For purposes of this section:
    1.  "Livestock" means any cattle, bison, hog, sheep, goat,
equine, chicken or other poultry and shall include exotic livestock;
and
    2.  "Exotic livestock" means commercially raised exotic livestock
including animals of the families bovidae, cervidae and
antilocapridae or birds of the ratite group.
 
 

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