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Every day in and throughout each province of Canada animals are beaten, neglected, mistreated and abandoned forcing them to struggle for their survival. Every second, there are an enormous number of animals suffering pain worse than you or I could ever imagine, throughout the world at the hands of humans. (http://www.animal-rights-action.com/animal-cruelty.html)How would you like to sleep in your own filth, feel abandoned and unwanted, fight to find what could be your last meal? Left in unsanitary conditions with little to no food and water, have little hope for survival or to find compassion. Living off of what little hope there is for a better tomorrow. Some found and rescued, given a chance to survive with love and experience a great life, where others are not so lucky. Having no control or fault over the matter, just being too much effort to deal with, no excuse or real reason, just abandonment. The treatment of animals is unethical and wrong. Ethics being defined as the moral principles that govern a person’s behaviour or the conducting of an activity, our world is governed by this, yet the animals are still forgotten. To grow as not only a community but also a nation, we must stand up and fight for these animals rights, and speak for them and with them.
One of the first steps in protecting the animals is by creating a safer environment for them, such as creating effective cruelty laws. Making it clear to all those who own a pet that it is not an easy or cheap job and that it is their responsibility to treat that animal as if it were a child. There are two types of animal cruelty, there are: passive cruelty and active cruelty. Passive cruelty involves omission, the abuse happens as a result of neglect. Many people see this ...

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