A man in southeast Houston, Texas, is accused of abusing four horses, one of which died before it could be euthanized by the Houston Humane Society, according to kvue.com.

A video of the horses–including the one that dies–is heart-wrenching. It accompanies the article.

One key point of the news story was that under Texas law horss are livestock, and cruelty to livestock is a misdemeanor unless intentional torture can be proven.

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