(a) No person shall cruelly, unnecessarily or needlessly beat, torture, torment, mutilate, kill or overload, overdrive or willfully deprive of necessary sustenance, any horse or other domestic animal, whether such horse or other animal be his own or that of another person, or shall impound or confine any such animal in any place and fail to supply the same with a sufficient quantity of good, wholesome food and water, or shall carry in or upon any vehicle, or otherwise, any such animal in a cruel or inhuman manner, or knowingly feed a cow on food that produces impure or unwholesome milk, or shall abandon to die any maimed, sick, infirm or diseased animal, or shall be engaged in or employed at cock fighting, dog fighting, bear baiting, pitting one animal to fight against another of the same or different kind, or any similar cruelty to animals, or shall receive money for the admission of any person, or shall knowingly purchase an admission to any place kept for such purpose, or shall use, train or possess a dog or other animal for the purpose of seizing, detaining or maltreating any other domestic animal.
(b) No person shall knowingly and willfully administer or cause to be administered to any horse, mule, donkey or pony participating in any pulling contest any controlled substance or any other drug for the purpose of altering or otherwise affecting such animals' performance.
(WVaC 61-8-19)
(WVaC 61-8-19)