animal cruelty charges

A man has been charged with animal cruelty after surveillance video captured him abusing his dog outside a grooming salon in Manchester.

Go ahead. Get ready to write me. Call me a jerk who hates animals (not true). But I'm not sure if what I'm seeing in the video below amounts to animal cruelty or not.

A New Jersey woman accused in March of abandoning a starved pit bull found at the bottom of a trash chute has been indicted on a charge of animal cruelty.