Animal Abuse Case

This has been well documented in numerous research studies and has led to animal abuse being listed as one of the criteria for a diagnosis of conduct disorder in childhood. In fact, there has been proof that many of deadly school shootings started with cruelty to animals. Such as, Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who shot and killed 12 classmates before turning their guns on themselves, spoke to their classmates about mutilating animals. Clearly, once the cycle of violence begins in youth it continues throughout a person’s life. Unfortunately, many of these first signs of violence towards animals were ignored which resulted in more tragedies. Luckily, there are laws that prohibit cruelty towards animals with the Prevention Of Cruelty to Animals Act. In all 50 states committing malicious acts towards animals will be

The abuse and cruelty by humans towards animals have been on the rise as producers and retailers of cosmetics and drugs rush to position their products in the global markets. Scientific tests remain a leading player in animal abuse, especially due to the controlled environment while being experimented (Norton, 157). While there are myriads of local and international rules and regulations guiding the human

Abusing animals is not acceptable and it is most definitely inexcusable. Laws and consequences that are more harsh should be put into place. Why should animals be treated differently? A human that abuses an animal badly on purpose, should be considered dangerous. If a person cannot act humanely towards an animal, then in reality, what's to stop them from acting like that towards a human? A person who abuses an animal is dangerous to humans and animals alike. Another valid reason to make more harsher consequences is simple. Say a person does serve his/her time in jail or pays the fine. Sure they will not be allowed to own an animal, but what’s to stop them from abusing an animal again? There should be a rule in place where your on protocol and have people supervising the person to make sure that they will not abuse an animal again. Or say if they did abuse an animal again, the fine and jail time should triple or double, the person should be put into a course about animal abuse and how to treat an animal, and how bad of pain the animal goes through during abuse. Abusing an animal is like abusing a child, the child is defenseless and can not do anything to stop it. That is the same thing with an animal. What can an animal do to defend itself? Run and hide? Maybe try to bite or scratch? Other than that the animal is completely defenseless.

It seems like nowadays nearly everyone in society knows something about the abuse. If not, abuse is a somatic or physiological form of harm. It also seems that more and more people are getting concerned about animal abuse, and promptly because of that, there are more foundations to help rescue animals, and nurture them back to health. However, animals around the globe are still not getting rescued and are getting abused. In order to be fully acquainted about animal abuse, the common types of animal abuse, and the causes of animal abuse must all be explored, as well as the ways to prohibit the occurrence of animal abuse. Animals have rights, those in which are being violated. Animals can not defend themselves, so America needs to defend animal

Three out of five households in America own a pet. Now imagine one of those poor little puppies or kittens getting beaten, malnourished, or even getting trained to fight. Animal abuse is a serious crime. Regardless if it is a domestic animal or not, it should get treated like one. Animal abuse occurs everywhere and people do it because they are not scared of the punishment for doing it. Studies have shown that people that abuse animals are more likely to harm or kill people. Something should be done about this serious issue in society. In order to reduce the amount of animal abuse, law makers should increase punishments for abusing animals.

Unfortunately today there are many cases of animal abuse happening around the world. Animal cruelty or animal abuse can be defined as the infliction of suffering or harm upon animals for purposes other than self-defense. There are many different types of abuse such as using animals for research, using animals for entertainment purposes, abandoning animals to shelters, and animal neglect. We need to raise awareness and find a solution to these issues. Animals are suffering and we need to help them.

Animal abuse and cruelty does not just specialize in just one type of animal. It is more diverse that it is right. Animal abuse can mean many different things, like an animal tied to a tree or something where they do not have the mobility that they need or have access to food and water. It can also mean making animals fight till one or both can no longer stand up for themselves of till one of them is dead or not both. Another type of animal cruelty or abuse is poaching whales for their blubber or rhinos or elephants for the horns or tusk to sell on the black market. There actually is a lot more kinds of animal abuse and cruelty like trophy hunting, testing harsh chemicals and products on animals, also with the food we consume; some of those animals never get to see the light of day or get to breath fresh air. Luckily there are some groups or organizations out there who want to help and are willing to. Just to name a few there is the Humane Society, ASPCA, PETA, and the United States of Americas Congress. So much has happened recently that the US has broken it down into four categories, simple or gross neglect; intentional abuse and torture; organized abuse, including dogfighting and cockfighting; and animal sexual abuse (Fricker, Peter. "Increase Penalties for Animal Cruelty; it's Now a Felony in U.S.").

Some states do not seem to take animal cruelty as seriously though. According to the Humane Society, a good felony anti-cruelty law should protect all animals, apply to first-time offenders, carry large fines and prison time, with no exceptions. Convicted abusers should be required to get counseling at their own expense, and prohibit abusers from owning any animals as pets. The legal definition of animal cruelty, penalties given, and the consistency and outcomes of punishments within a state should assist in seeking a greater protection for not only animals but human companions as well.

Animal cruelty is a huge problem around the world. People think it is ok to hurt an animal and starve them just because they are not humans. This is not ok at all. In fact, it is illegal. My dog is an abused animal. He is really scared by his old owner and daily tasks can be a struggle with him. He is terrified of males and does not like young children. He has random flashbacks and flipps out. Going to the pet store can skyrocket his anxiety. He has a love hate relationship with car rides. Though I have worked with him a lot over the past year, there are still struggles. The vets is a nightmare. He never had any shots or even been to the vets before in his life before we got him. It takes 4-5 of us to hold down my 15 pound dog. We have to put down his food at a certain time because he never knew when his next meal was and eats it so fast he gets sick. He use to be starved days at a time. “Animal cruelty is any deliberate act. This is due by intention or neglect. They cause an animal unnecessary pain or suffering, including inflicting pain on an animal for the abuser’s enjoyment or amusement” (Bourazak 2). Why do people think this is ok? Animals are just like humans. They have feeling and and living breathing creatures too. Just like us. What would give us a right to abuse them? Animal neglect is defined as the failure to provide an animal sufficient water, food, shelter, and/or veterinary care. Also lack of grooming and lack of sanitation. Abused animals are affected in so many ways from the abuse from us humans. Some of the many ways they are affected by their abusers physically and behaviorally.

If the severity of punishment increases then it needs to be increased for all of society, especially large businesses. Animals are subject to horrors such has being fed lethal doses of chemicals and being posioned to search for birth defects. These tests have been shown to serve no purpose because they do not benefit human health or safeguard environment in any way (“Going Global” 14). By including big businesses and programs, such as the Animal Protection Screening Program, these new laws will show the seriousness about stopping animal abuse. Animal abuse is widespread throughout the farming community as shown in an article by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which says that “[o]n today’s factory farms, animals are crammed by the thousands into filthy, windowless sheds and stuffed into wire cages, metal crates, and other torturous devices” (“Factory Farming 1”). Because animal abuse is so prevalent in farming, the focus of the solution should be focused here. Farms or big businesses will get away with the abuse by using money or the law to side with them. If the present laws can be increased in severity, then it will be harder for big businesses to swindle their way out of getting prosecuted for animal

There are many ways animals can be victims to cruelty. The two main ways are: dog fighting and animal neglect and abuse. Dog fighting is a felony in all 50 states, and animal neglect and abuse is illegal in every state.

Studies done by organizations such as PETA have discovered “Intentional cruelty to animals is strongly correlated with other crimes, including violence against people” (PETA). For all those people that aren’t concerned with animal abuse because it doesn’t harm a human being. This could be a wakeup call for those of you that think this way, because animal abuse may not harm people first hand. After time though it could lead to humans being harmed or killed. As research in psychology and criminology has shown that “People who commit acts of cruelty to animals don’t stop there—many of them move on to their fellow humans. ‘Murderers … very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids,’ says Robert K. Ressler, who developed profiles of serial killers for the Federal Bureau of Investigation” (PETA). This is kinda of a scary thought especially with the states where animal abuse is kind of overlooked. Since the two of them go hand in hand, if we were to crack down on animal abuse it could in turn lower the rates of cases of domestic violence. Even for people that believe animals don’t have rights, you can see how animal abuse directly correlates with other crimes. Crimes that harm humans, or cause problems for

We should also make animal abuse not as easy to do. There were 70 dogs rescued from Michael Vick’s pound is a good example to why it shouldn’t be as easy to do. Because seventy

This is an essay on behalf of animals receiving the respect and freedom they’ve always deserved. A big question that’s lingered in my mind and maybe even yours, is why we are still having to fight for freedom and respect? And what’s even more ludicrous to me is the fact that this is still a problem with humans! I have always been passionate about this subject, and my hope with this paper is that I bring awareness and compassion to a serious situation at hand. I believe at this time, it is best to have stricter laws against animal cruelty and mistreatment. I’m not the best at coming up with ways of preventing people from doing things (enforcement), and I hope to find those that can!

Abuse on animals is a serious problem right now. Animals are being forced to do stuff they don’t know about. This is making some people happy, and many people are trying to fight for the right for animals. According to the website Britannica's article on animal rights says scientists used animals instead of people on their experiments. (So they would not hurt the people) This made some people very mad. Another thing is when people like Britain, and US have been protesting for animals rights. Around 53 (not including fish) have been killed every year for fun, or food other reasons. If this same route continues it might lead the sea animals into endangered animals, or even extinction. Another problem the is very big is the 25 million animals