U.S President Donald Trump has signed a bill making cruelty to animals a serious crime carrying a prison sentence of up to seven years.
The bill called the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, makes intentional acts of cruelty to animals a federal crime.
As President Trump went to sign the bill making animal cruelty a serious federal offence Democrats, for the most part, in a rare occurrence, refrained from attempting to obstruct the legislation.
The Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act, or PACT Act, bans abusive behaviour, which includes crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, impaling and other bodily injury toward any non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians.
The bi-partisan bill was signed by President Trump hours after he welcomed the special forces service dog, Conan, that helped hunt down and kill Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi for a ceremony to honour the K-9.
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