§ 7.12 CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
   Any person who shall impound or confine or cause to be impounded or confined, in any place, any domestic animal, or fowl, or any dog or cat, and fail to supply such animal during confinement with sufficient quantity of food and water, or who shall torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, mutilate, overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, beat or kill any such animal by any means which shall cause unjustified pain, distress or suffering, whether intentionally or negligently. (See Iowa Code § 717B.)