Where do you draw the line as to where animal abuse starts?

Where do you draw the line as to where animal abuse starts?
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Causing distress In an animal is abuse. allowing distress is abuse. In Alberta a dog and a cat starved to death from someone duct taping the muzzles and mouths shut. No owe was caught it could be anyone from a brat child to a fully grown adult.
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