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How Can Animal Abuse Be Prevented? Essay

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How can animal abuse be prevented?
A Review of the Literature
Lilah Doster
Edina High School

How can animal abuse be prevented?
A Review of the Literature

I was shocked when my mother introduced me to my new foster dog, a seven year old dachshund named Andy. I expected a friendly dog to greet me when I came home but instead I found a dog that was sick, feeble and afraid of me. It was then that I quickly learned about the horrors of animal abuse. Spellbound, I listened to my mother tell me Andy’s story of abuse. Andy spent his entire seven years in a puppy mill, confined to a small cage and rarely had any human contact. He came to us with a skin disease, parasites, and almost all of his teeth were missing from decay. The foster organization told my mother that he was hit and beaten by his breeder numerous times. Andy was one of the lucky ones, his breeder was arrested, he was put in a foster organization, and brought into our home. Animal abuse is a significant problem causing nearly one million animals to die each year from many different forms of abuse; animals are not people, but that doesn’t make their lives less precious. There needs to be an end to this preventable suffering. Animal abuse contains a wide spectrum of behavior. According to Carol Thompson (2016, para.1-2), “Animal cruelty is a general term used to refer to a broad range of offenses against non-human animals, generally including such behaviors as intentional and unintentional

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