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In statutes protecting animals from cruelty: gross abuse, inhuman treatment, unjustifiable physical pain or suffering inflicted. In an indictment for torturing a horse, the means used must be alleged so that the court can see that such means have the inevitable and natural tendency to produce the effect in which the crime consists. Torture is pain, anguish, extreme pain or anguish of body or mind, pang, agony, torment; in the statute of Missouri, some violent, wanton, and cruel act necessarily producing pain and suffering. Tying brush and boards to a horse's tail is not necessarily torture. See Cruelty, 3; Rack.