The Rising Problem of Animal Cruelty

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Animal cruelty is a rising problem in many states and many people don’t realize it. What we can do to help lower the increasing rate of animal abuse is to make punishments stronger and stricter. These punishments should not just be a slap on the wrist and someone saying “that’s not right”, that just shows them you don’t care. Together we may be able to make a big difference and stop animal cruelty. Together we can make the punishments stronger.

Most people who have accused of animal cruelty only get charged with a minor misdemeanor. A minor misdemeanor is just a warning not to do it again; of course, most people do not take this warning seriously. For example, an Egyptian man, Ahmed Fathy Faudtaye (A.K.A. Ahmed Mido) threw a poor defenseless dog off the roof a high building. After three weeks of suffering from horrible injuries the dog finally died. This man was only charged with a minor misdemeanor, but because he was only 17 he wasn’t charged, he only has to pay a 30 dollar fine when he turns 18, even though they had several different animals showing extreme sign of abuse. The law for the state of North Carolina is “If any person shall intentionally overdrive, overload, wound, injure, torment, kill, or deprive of necessary sustenance, or cause or procure to be overdriven, overloaded, wounded, injured, tormented, killed, or deprived of necessary sustenance, any animal, every such offender shall for every such offense be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. (b) If any person shall maliciously torture, mutilate, maim, cruelly beat, disfigure, poison, or kill, or cause or procure to be tortured, mutilated, maimed, cruelly beaten, disfigured, poisoned, or killed, any animal, every such offender shall for every such offense ...

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... your local shelter or animal rescue organization. 10- Try to start a neighboring watch program (if you can) [ASPCA]. If you were going to protest, you could protest against animal abuse or for stronger punishments to try and get the punishments to be stronger. Or you could possibly debate about why you feel this needs to happen, but if you debate, debate with someone with a high ranking to try and prove your point.
Together we can make punishments against animal cruelty stronger. If we try to actually help these poor innocent animals, we may be able to stop it. Animal cruelty is wrong and unfair, but maybe now that you see that you will help these animals and stop it. These animals don’t deserve this, all they want is love.

Works Cited

https://www.humanesociety.org https://www.animal-rights-action.com https://www.web.a.ebscohost.com
https://www.emptyallcages.com

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