It shall be unlawful for any person, either as owner or otherwise, to inhumanely kill, beat, under feed, overload, overdrive, poison, torment, abandon, abuse, or cruelly treat, in any manner, an animal, or cause or procure any animal to be so killed, beaten, underfed, over-driven, poisoned, tormented, abandoned, abused, or in any manner cruelly treated.
(Prior Code, § 8-1-7) Penalty, see § 10.99