Cruelty to animals is already a low level felony, if convicted, the FBI was supposed to be watching out for animal abusers that had been convicted of the crime starting Jan 1st 2016 but its actually getting states to convict animal abusers or enforce existing animal abuse laws . too many get away with the abuse with just a slap on the wrist, a fine and maybe having the animal removed with an order to not own any animals for a certain number of years, trouble is many of these end up moving to another location, owning animals they arent supposed to have and abusing them as well.