Pitbull Animal Abuse

Can you imagine the pain, frustration, and fear evoked in a helpless animal enduring an abusive situation? Since the start of the domestication of animals, many pets in the United States have spent their lives knowing nothing but cruelty. Animal cruelty comes in many forms. It can be deliberate, a result of apathy towards animals, or from a person simply not aware of how to properly care for an animal. Cruelty can be neglect, physical abuse, or abandonment, as well as emotionally abusing an animal. Despite the acts passed to prevent cruelty towards animals, many pets, livestock, and exotic animals still experience abuse of some form every day. Animal rights activists--though radical in their beliefs that no animal should be owned or managed

Both branches of people against animal cruelty, the animal rights activists and animal welfare activists, agree that physical abuse is a horrifying act that can lead to permanent injury or damage to the animal, or possibly death in extreme cases. According to the Humane Society of the United States, “in 2000–2001, pit bull-type dogs were involved in 13 percent of reported dog-abuse cases; in 2007, they were involved in 25 percent of reported dog-abuse cases.” Pit bull or pit bull mixes are the most common victims of animal abuse. In the year 2007, more than 1,800 cases of animal cruelty were reported by the media, and of those, over 1,200 were dogs, with 300 of those cases being against pit bull dogs. The other 800 cases involved cats and various other animals as victims of abuse. Physical abuse is the most acute form of animal cruelty, and can leave victims crippled for life, extremely fearful of certain things, people, or

WIth them, the Human Society of the United States has done many things, such as fundraising and spreading awareness alongside the ASPCA about the damages and dangers of animal cruelty. Many local animal shelters take in strays, abandoned animals, and animals rescued from cruel circumstances, and volunteers help to care for the animals within the shelters. At this time, no one is responsible for keeping track of statistics of the animal protection movement nationally. Therefore, figures vary from state to state. Shelters using the names “Humane Society” and “SPCA” are not affiliated with ASPCA or the Humane Society of the United States. Since there is no national organization monitoring over 13,600 shelters across the country, actual statistics are difficult to