'Cruel' or 'cruelty' means: intentional and malicious infliction of pain, physical suffering, injury or death of an animal, maliciously killing, maiming, wounding, overdriving, overloading, driving when overloaded, overworking, torturing, tormenting, or depriving of necessary sustenance, drink or shelter cruelly beating, mutilating or cruelly killing an animal, subjecting an animal to needless suffering, inflicting unnecessary cruelty, driving riding or otherwise using an animal when the animal is unfit, abandoning an animal, negligently confining an animal in unsanitary conditions, negligently housing an animal in inadequate facilities, negligently failing to provide sustenance,water or shelter to an animal.
The maximum penalty for a first offense animal cruelty conviction in Idaho is six months in jail and/or a fine up to $5,000. On a third conviction, the maximum penalty is up to one year in jail and/or a fine up to $9,000. In other states' 2008 sessions, Utah and Alaska enacted felony animal cruelty laws, leaving only five states without such provisions. Those states are Arkansas, Idaho, Mississippi, North Dakota and South Dakota. This a law that we must change... Please sign the petition to help us give the animals a voice. Together we can make a difference...
