Animal abuse and abandonment are a few of many forms of animal cruelty, and while efforts have been made to end animal cruelty, many animals are still suffering. Is animal cruelty right in anyone’s eyes? You would like to think it is not, but in reality there are many people that just do not care! Any act of violence or neglect perpetrated against animals is considered to be cruelty to an animal (The American Society of Prevention of Cruelty). Animals do not deserve to be abused for any reason (The Humane Society 2)! Animals are not humans; they are helpless and defenseless creations that can only defend themselves to a certain extent (The American Society of Prevention of Cruelty). Animals have feelings and want to be loved, just as well as people. People often think just because they cannot speak their mind, or express their feelings, that they do not have any; that is false (The American Society of Prevention of Cruelty 3)! We, as humans, do not like being beat, neglected, or abused, so why would an animal like it (The Humane Society 2)? Not everyone has a heart for animals (The Humane Society 2); however, no one should abuse them under any circumstances (The Humane Society 3)!
Many animals are victims of animal cruelty (Siebert 2). People often abuse animals to gain control (Siebert 6). Animals are often abused after they become an increasingly vital member of the family (Siebert 4). In many cases a family pet is abused because a family member is trying to extract revenge on another family member (Siebert 6). A lot of times people know that they cannot control their family or other people, so they try to control an animal that is weak and that cannot defend themselves (Siebert 6). No conscientious person would ignore a child...
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...nored, nor would an animal. Not everyone is an animal lover, but that is no reason to abuse them! Animals are loving, passionate, and caring. They deserve to be loved just as well as people do!
Works Cited
11 Facts about Animal Cruelty ND DoSomething.Org 13, September 2011
< http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-animal-cruelty >
Report Animal Cruelty 2008 the Humane Society of the United States 13, September 2011
< http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/abuse_neglect/tips/cruelty_action.html >
“Animals in danger as cruelty cases rise.’’ The Birmingham Post. 1998 19, September 2011.
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Sieber, Charles. “The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome.” The New York Times. 2010
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The issue of animal abuse is an issue with a silent voice both in the sense that the victims have no voice and that does not seem a loud enough by the way human voice in support. Eyes are rolled or the channel is quickly changed a commercial comes on with the emaciated dog or cat missing a limb. The issue of animal abuse is more serious than believed to be and it happens for many reasons. The reasons why people abuse animals are:
...at animal abuse can happen in different ways and perhaps they will realize that they are causing the animal harm.
Animal abuse is described generally as any act or omission that causes unnecessary or unreasonable harm to an animal. Animal abuse are vary and can lead to different forms. These may include, tormenting or beating an animal, executing an animal in a harsh way, binding or transporting an animal in a way that is improper for its welfare, neglecting to give fitting living conditions, neglecting to give proper or satisfactory sustenance or water for an animal and neglecting to give suitable treatment to infection or injury (Animal Cruelty, n.d.). In general, for an act to be considered as animal cruelty, it must be a non-accidental, socially unacceptable, enacted on a vertebrate animal, causing pain, suffering and distress or death. (Battle, 2013).
Animal cruelty is just one reason why animal abuse is bad. Part of the problem is people who hurt animals don’t do it on purpose they just do not know how to take care of the animals (Mason 6). Other times people enjoy engaging in watching two animals fight. Some owners test them to see if they are good fighting dogs and if they are not they kill their dogs This one owner killed his dogs that would not fight by hanging,drowning and slamming the dogs (Dohrmann). Most of the time when the animals fight one of the animals dies and the other of is badly injured (Mason 31). The people that watch place bets on which dog they think will win. This is cruel to the animal because they have to fight if they don’t they may die. If they don’t die they
...althy individual, this is a warning.” There are deep psychological issues that lead to violent crimes against people” (cfawr). What is more shocking is that most animal abusers abuse animals for entertainment of both themselves and others, and to show their aggressiveness.
There are many animal owners that believe abusing it is the only way to control and train it (Nine Reasons for Animal Abuse). This not only includes animals that are pets, it includes the ones that are in the performing business (Nine Reasons for Animal Abuse). Trainers that do not properly know how to get the animal to act as they want may result in using physical harm to initiate fear, and this will “teach” the animal to do as it is told, so it does not have to risk being abused all over again. As another reason as to why a person may not think of animal cruelty as something serious is due to what the philosopher Raymond G. Frey of Bowling Green State University had to say on the issue. His argument is based around his belief that because animals are not human, they do not have moral rights (The Animal Rights Debate). He also goes on to say that their lives do not have the same moral values as the lives of humans due to another belief that he possesses, which is thinking an animal does not undergo the same emotional and intellectual experiences as a human would (The Animal Rights Debate). While there are some that do not believe that animal cruelty is a serious issue because they have placed their trust in what Raymond G. Fray has said, there are others that simply think animals are a lower form of life (Missimer). These people conclude that
“There can be many reason for animal cruelty, like any other form of violence, is often committed by a person who feels powerless, unnoticed, or under control of others. Some who are cruel to animals copy acts what they have seen or that have been done to them, others see harming an animal as a safe way to get revenge against--or threaten-- someone who cares about that animal”. (“Animal… Statistics”) Concerns towards abusing animals have gone up in the past. Although there are not many cases on animal abuse, many have occurred. Abusers are charged with Criminal Animal Abuse and then sentenced to life in prison. Some animals that are physically abused are sometimes rescued by Animal Control, and are taken it to an animal shelter. However, many shelters have not had the space to keep the animals so the workers would have to put them down (Carol Roach). Researchers have shown that the main animals getting abused are dogs, chickens, horses, and livestock (“Animal...
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