“it shall be unlawful for any person to torture any animal, to neglect to provide adequate care, sustenance of shelter, or maltreat any animal or to subject any dog or horse to dogfights or horsefights, kill or cause or procure to be tortured or deprived of adequate care, sustenance or shelter, or maltreat or use the same in research or experiments not expressly authorized by the Committee on Animal Welfare.” The animal welfare act of 1998. If you already can't afford to take care of your please don't let them be killed instead why don't you put them to a dog shelter, it's better that way. Animals are not a pest to be treated that way. Dogs should be well taken care of after all they possess the thing called life.