Any person who overrides, overdrives, overloads, tortures,
ill-treats, abandons, willfully inflicts inhumane injury or pain not
connected with bona fide scientific or medical experimentation or
cruelly or unnecessarily beats, maims, mutilates or kills any animal,
whether belonging to himself or another; or deprives any animal of
necessary food, drink or shelter; or willfully sets on foot, instigates,
engages in or in any way furthers any act of cruelty to any animal;
or carries or causes to be carried in or upon any vehicle, vessel
or otherwise any animal in a cruel, brutal or inhumane manner so as
to produce torture or unnecessary suffering; or causes any of the
above things or being the owner of such animal permits such acts to
be done by another shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor.