Animal cruelty is not nice, but there should be no laws against it.
We have dominion over animals and animals have no rights.
The definition of what is cruel is relative, anyway.
I disagree. Anyone who needlessly or sadistically abuses animals should be subject to legal penalties, severe enough to prevent them doing it again. Hunting, pest control, the use of animals in medical research and so on has a "greater good" rationale; needlessly hurting or harming defenseless animals does not.
There most definitely should be laws against cruelty to animals. Animals are God's creatures just as we are. They deserve to be treated in a humane way.
Do you think that someone who sets a cat on fire or who ties a dog to a tree and leaves it there to starve to death should get off without punishment? If you do, I pity you.