What is considered cruelty, animal abuse or inhumane treatment?
Cruelty and abuse are a result of the failure to provide adequate food and water; failing to detect the need or withholding veterinary care; creating or allowing unhealthful living conditions; infliction of suffering, injury or death to an animal by striking, beating, dropping, kicking, dragging, choking or by the use of an object or weapon; causing pain, injury or death by the means of caustic, flammable, boiling or heated substances; causing suffering, injury or death by suffocation or drowning; failure to provide health related grooming.
