If the owner or keeper of an animal impounded does not, within 48 hours after notice thereof as aforesaid, either replevy or redeem the same, he or she shall forfeit $3.00 for each animal so by him or her suffered to remain in pound, and the same sum for every day thereafter he or she so suffers such animal to remain in pound, and pay the charges to the poundkeeper. Such forfeiture shall be recovered by the poundkeeper for his or her use in a civil action. (Amended 1981, No. 114 (Adj. Sess.), § 2.)