Tenn. Code Ann. § 38-1-401: Part definitions

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.