Abandoned Animal Abuse

Do you know how many animals die out on the streets each year because they are abandoned? Approximately 2.7 million animals are euthanized around the world each year. This shows how bad abandoning your pets can be. People should go to jail when they abandon their pets, because a lot of pets die each year from being abandoned, and abandoned pets usually suffer in the streets before being taken in. If they even get taken in.
Before being abandoned their owners will usually abuse them. “The animals we find are usually abused, starved, or dehydrated. This is becoming a bigger problem now.” Another quote that is heartbreaking, “He was about ten weeks old and weighed 20 pounds he was tied to a stake and used as bait for a Pit Bull. Afterward, he was thrown into a cage and left to bleed to death.”This textual evidence relates to reason #1 because these animals are being abused before being abandoned, and that is becoming a problem. This shows that these animals are almost dead by the time that these people find them, but some animals never get found, and that is truly heartbreaking.

“Many animals that are deemed “unadoptable”- because they have suffered in the streets for so long, or have bad injuries.” Also, “Extended periods of neglect can lead to seriously compromised health or even death” This textual evidence relates to reason #2, because if animals are abandoned they are being neglected and that’s why animals can have seriously compromised health or even death. Also, when animals are “unadoptable” that’s because they have been on the streets for so long and they can’t take care of themselves alone, and when someone finds them they usually are injured or sick from being neglected and being alone on the streets. When animals suffer in the streets before being found is just terrible, but when you abuse them, put them in a cage with no water and just leave them to suffer is even