_____ includes abandoning an animal in the person's custody without making reasonable arrangements for assumption of custody by another person.

• A. Neglect
• B. Abandon
• C. Release
• D. Forsake

Answer: (B)

Abandonment is defined by leaving an animal in your care and not making reasonable arrangements for someone else to take custody. That specific element—no plan for another person to assume responsibility for the animal—is what distinguishes it from simply neglect, which focuses on failing to provide adequate care, or from releasing or forsaking, which don’t capture the custody-transfer failure as precisely. So the described scenario fits the act of abandoning.