No you can't. You cannot torture or cruelly kill even your own pets.
In any event I think 1 year is pretty excessive. Restitution in cases of theft of this type works better.
I am in favor of any sentence over one year, even by a day, since that falls into felony category and will prevent the person from owning a firearm legally. And this prevention is something I wish to see, inasmuch as the guard has shown a certain depraved indifference to living things and their welfare.
And it's not about theft, it's about cruelly killing animals for no good reason.
You can according to the constitution. Animals are property. How you deal with your property is up to you.
GSA(P)