Thanks to the unstoppable rise of social media and other online communication channels, acts of animal cruelty and shortcomings and deficiencies in animal husbandry culture are now receiving increasing publicity. The research found that the growing interest in animal welfare reflects a broader shift in social attitudes. Whether we examine the assessment of animal cruelty at the level of morality or law, we see a rapidly and continuously changing process that is coherent with itself. The objective of this study is based on the above finding. First, by highlighting the depth of the relationship between morality and law, it shows that these two institutions are inseparable and that they influence each other. The following part of the study describes the development and current system of moral and legal norms relating to animal cruelty, and finally, through de lege ferenda proposals, it attempts to play a thought-provoking and debate-initiating role with regard to the further development of the system.