Animal Abuse In America

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Animal Cruelty in America can be found in any town, any city, any state, anywhere. Unfortunately, the number of animals being harmed every year is very high. For instance, 25% of all dog abuse cases are of pit bull like dogs. Animals can be abused, or neglected in many different ways. In the United States an animal is abused every ten seconds, If you do the math that is, 6 every minute, 360 every hour and 21600 every day. (Humane Society) The amount of animals that get abused is sickening, and we need more people to join the fight against it. A lot of animals are abused in big food processing plants, around 9 million broiler chickens are slaughtered every year, 113 million pigs, 250 turkeys, and 33 million cows that all adds up to a whopping …show more content…

Pigs are some of the smartest animals on the planet, “Ranking of pigs on animal planets top smartest animals list: 6th” (Solotaroff). Humans are less intelligent than pigs until the age of 3. These incredible animals do not get praise for this, instead they take small metal cage… “Dimensions of the metal crates breeding sows are confined to for life: 7 feet by 2 feet” (Solotaroff). Pigs are not the only ones confined to small living quarters, chickens and turkeys also have tiny homes. “Average space per bird in the wire battery cage that 95% of egg-laying hens in factory farms call home: 67 square inches, dimensions of a standard size sheet of letter paper: 93.5 square inches”(Solotaroff) In a slaughterhouse in Nebraska, “one cow is killed every 2 seconds” (Solotaroff). The life span of a wild chicken or a farm raised chicken is “5 to 8 years” while “factory-farm egg layer 2 years” (Solotaroff). These animals live such short lives because of horrendous living conditions they are forced into. The annual slaughter rate of these animals are, “9 million broiler chickens… 3 million pigs… 33 million pigs… 250 million turkeys” (Solotaroff). This is the price we pay for cheap …show more content…

“When our dog Oogy was about ten weeks old... he was tied to a stake and used as bait for a Pit Bull. The left side of his face, including most of his ear was torn off. He was bitten so hard a piece of his lower jaw was crushed. Afterward, he was thrown into a cage and left to bleed to death” (Laurence M. Levin). This poor dog is one of the few to survive something like this, horrific stories happen like this every day. He was just lucky to be one of the few to survive a crazy abuse story like this. The only reason he survived is because police barely got to the dog fighting facility in time, He was found by police when they raided the facility and taken to an emergency service… the Office’s Director of Operations, simply refused to allow the dog to die… staunch the bleeding, replace the lost blood, and suture the gaping meat that Oogy’s face had become. With the help of everyone on the staff somehow, beyond any calculation of the odds, Oogy survived” (Levin).This is a miracle case that can help open the average civilian’s eyes to animal abuse and dog fighting. Another miracle story is about a cat named B.K, he was a rescue by the group called the N.A.A.C, B.K was abandoned as a kitten a developed a very deadly lung disease that was contagious to other cats (Petfinder). B.K was only saved because of the non-profit organization

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