Animal Cruelty Speech

Animal cruelty is the human infliction of suffering, pain, or even death to an animal for the purposes of training, discipline, sport or because it was intentional. Animal cruelty can be inflicted upon any animal on the planet weather they are domestic or exotic. In fact, an animal is abused every sixty seconds. By the end of this speech five or more animal will have been abused and during a typical school day beginning at 8 a.m. and ending at 2:15 more than 375 animals will have been submitted to some form of abuse. Millions of people across the world own some type of animal. In the United States alone 62% percent of households, more than 164 million, have at least one pet. An estimated of 83.3 million dogs and 95.6 million cats were owned and this is just the amount in the United States. Due to HSUS calculations, more than one million of these animals will be abused or killed each year in relation to domestic violence.

There is a strong link between domestic violence and animal abuse. According to the CDC; killing, harming, or threatening to harm animals are weapons abusers use against their victims to manipulate them into silence and take away the comfort of the animal. According to the ASPCA “Twelve

This involves failing to provide food, water, shelter and veterinary care. Failing to provide these necessities leads to severe injuries and even death. Animal Control agencies nationwide report that cases of animal neglect are the most common calls they respond to. Examples of neglect include starving the animal. Many cases of neglect involve an animal that is skinny to the bone due to a lack of food. Another form of neglect is imbedded collars. It is the owner’s responsibility to change an animal’s collar size as it gets older. Them failing to do this results to the collar digging into the animals neck. These are just some of multiple example of animal